Places

Date: 1840 - 1865 - 1908 - 1850

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943; Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: A-004-037/047

Description: Titles: Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororareka; Farewell to Hawaiki; Victors in the fight; The fight in Massacre Bay; A dreadful recognition; Signing the Treaty of Waitangu; Phillpotts at Oheawai; A boy's heroism: "Awake! Awake!"; Major Witchell's charge at Nukemaru; The frenzy of the Hauhau. The incantation; Butters gives the alarm - Poverty Bay. Title supplied for each image. ATL has Reginald Horsley's "New Zealand. Romance of Empire" at NZ&P 993.1 HOR Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 155 x 112 mm, on sheet 203 x 135 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1863

By: Cooper, Alfred John, 1831-1869; Mouton, W J (Mr), active 1969

Reference: A-235-009

Description: Two men (Cooper faces the viewer at left, Lavin at right) cutting through the trunk of an enormous tree, their dog (identified as Rover)standing on the fallen trunk. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Title from descriptive notes by J. Lavin on back Inscriptions: Verso - title and descriptive text in ink in the hand of John Lavin: 'Bushwork. Crosscutting timber in Lavin's Bush for nails, that's the job i am at present occupied about. I as at work at it to day. I get my neighbour Mr Cooper to help me to crosscut. The falling and splitting I do single-handed. My neighbour Cooper is facing you, very like him. My back towards you. Rover on top the log. John Lavin.' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 74 x 129 mm