Places

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Herd, L (Mrs), active 1978

Reference: B-084-018

Description: Shows a view of the two-storeyed homestead and two other closer single-storey buildings. There are cattle and sheep grazing in the paddock to the right, and bare hills in the background. Identified as Cheviot Hills Station by a previous owner. It is possible that the hills are bare as a result of the painting's being unfinished, with the top of the bush line just sketched in. Cf a more wooded image of Cheviot Hill Station, showing [the same?] buildings from a different angle, at NON-ATL-P-0083 (digitised). There is some doubt about the identification of this house as Cheviot Hills. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 243 x 345 mm (sight)

Date: 1856

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-106-022

Description: Shows long wooden fence in front of group of buildings, including: cottage with verandah and climbing plant, two chimneys and four visible windows and side door with small glass windows above; small hut partly obscured to the left of the cottage; raised hut on long piles; shed with pitched roof and lean-to end next to wooden chute (possibly for feed); and two adjacent small outhouses behind. Behind the group is a stand of bush, and a range of hills is visible in the left distance. Title and artist from notes on backing paper. Lithograph, "Market Cross, Devizes" by Ackerman & Co. on verso. Backing board has print of Gustave Dore's "Christ leaving the Pra..." Richard Collins farmed at Te Ore Ore from 1849. According to Bagnall's "Wairarapa..." (1976), his house was destroyed by the 1855 earthquake. Therefore, these buildings may all have to have been erected in 1 year. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [...im (or airn?)....D B?] 1856; Backing board recto - centre - (In a later hand): "Cottage on the farm" /Te Ore Ore Masterton" /Masterton. Original water colour by C.D. Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on verso of magazine page.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 197 x 305 mm.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-007

Description: View from a low hill of an extensive river plain surrounded by hills, with Lake Coleridge and snow-clad mountains in the background and a river to the left. Sheep are grazing on the lower hills to the right and on the flat valley. In the far left foreground is a road, with a dray being pulled by horses towards the station. In the centre left, there are farm buildings with a dray and horses, and a haystack surrounded by fences. In the centre is the homestead, surrounded by trees, with an older building, possibly the original homestead on the lower slopes of the hills to the right of the homestead. Lake Coleridge Station was originally purchased by A.C.Barker and others in 1855. In 1860 it was jointly owned by George Arthur Emilius Ross and Charles John Harper. At the date of this painting, Harper was the sole owner. There is now a hydro station occupying part of the land shown in the picture. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 The Library holds an almost identical second copy of this work at C-033-005 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 457 x 784 mm Provenance: Hung, with a view of Wellington from Kelburn, 1870 (D-022-006) in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-033-005

Description: Shows a South Island high country sheep station, with homestead and outbuildings, with a river flowing past, and mountains in the background. Sheep are scattered over the hill in the foreground, and there is a haystack beyond the stand of trees around the homestead. A horse and cart stand outside the outbuildings to the far left. Almost identical to the work at D-022-007, from which the location has been ascertained. The river is probably the Harper River and the location is probably Lake Coleridge. On acquisition catalogued as [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown?]. Other Titles - [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown. Former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 455 x 795 mm (sight)