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Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-030

Description: Shows Nicholas and Caroline Chevalier and servant, with horses, crossing a bog amongst tall trees. Caroline Chevalier has her skirt hitched up, with trousers underneath. There are four horses, one carrying baggage Exhibited in 'About women, about time' Exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 2 July - 23 October 1993. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 88 x 159 mm

Date: 1869

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: B-163-013

Description: Shows a view from near Flagstaff Hill, looking down on Russell and the Bay of Islands, with nine sailing ships with many flags anchored off the bay and one smaller steamship nearing the shore. Paihia is in the background, across the water Attributed by previous owner to Nicholas Chevalier who was an artist on an earlier voyage with the Duke of Edinburgh. However Chevalier was not on the 1869 voyage and the style of the work does not appear to be his. There is no known record of a visit by the Galatea to the Bay of Islands. The ship left Auckland and proceeded to Tahiti. It may have called at the Bay of Islands en route. Inscriptions: No inscriptions on the work itself. Title from mat (discarded by the Library) supplied by a previous dealer. There is an almost identical work in the collection of Auckland Public Library, attributed to J C Hoyte. It is unsigned. The title assigned to it is Looking southwest from Flagstaff Hill over Kororareka. It was formerly in the collection of the Old Colonists Museum, and came into the Library when the Museum closed in 1957. The ships at anchor are assumed to be the American whaling fleet. There are seven ships at anchor. A further, almost identical version of this painting has been identified, housed at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is signed and dated 'C.H. [Kennett] Watkins / 1874', with reference number 2001.100.4397. (Information supplied by Lindsay Alexander, Russell, October 2014). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 248 x 347 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by John Crowder, Trinity House, Waikawa, Marlborough. Title and date suggested by John Crowder.

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: C-160-004

Description: Shows Leslie Hills Station in the Hurunui district, being the sheep and cattle station of George Rutherford. The single storey verandahed homestead with circular carriage drive, is placed on the gentle slope of a small hill, with neatly fenced fields and outbuildings to the left and right. At the left is a group of six conical haystacks. Several horses feed from a covered feed trough at the left. In the centre a horseman meets with a carriage drawn by two horses, one black and one white. In the far right foreground a group of longhorned cattle is grazing, and beyond, a figure is training two horses. A dark cloud at top left, brings a fleeting shower, but most of the farm basks in sunshine. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N Chevalier 1866 Chevalier was employed by the Otago and Canterbury City Councils to make sketches of the regions, and travelled extensively throughout New Zealand over a period of eight months. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 530 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Christies South Kensington London, May 1989, lot 175. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Chevalier, Caroline, 1836-1917; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-032

Description: Shows a horse (Tomboy) bolting. A tent and three other horses are in the background in a camp site on a river bank. Behind Tomboy, is the Chevaliers' servant, the bridle behind his back, trying to coax the horse to calm down. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 89 x 190 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-017

Description: Looking up the valley towards the dividing range and the pass, with a high waterfall on the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 178 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: G-230-2

Description: This scene may or may not be in New Zealand. Shows hanging glacial valley with waterfall at right. In the left foreground are two dead trees, one lying down, with two native figures beside it. The trees may be North American rather than Pacific. Previously attributed at different times to Charles Blomfield (according to Graham Chote of International Art Centre Parnell), and to Nicholas Chevalier. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 oil(s) on canvas stretched on frame.. Physical Description: Oil, on frame 180 x 307 mm. Provenance: Bought by Dr Neville Hogg at International Art Centre, Auckland, 1976. Purchased by John Crowder at Peter Webb's auction, with another oil, by the same hand (G-230-1), Auckland 12 August 1993, lot 279.

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: B-064-006

Description: View looking up a braided river towards the Southern Alps, with men at a camp fire on the river bank to the left Notes on back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N. Chevalier; On label beneath work: title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 401 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-034

Description: The artist and another man standing outside their tent, with Caroline Chevalier emerging from the tent. A billy is boiling over a fire to the right and a knapsack, axe and other items are on the ground. The sketch was made on the group's traverse of the Southern Alps to the West Coast, 1866. The members of the party are evidently deliberating the question of whether the rain will ease Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 89 x 165 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-007

Description: A road below a cliff and above the river on the left, with Ray's Accommodation house in the middle distance, a steep cliff on the far side of the river and hills beyond Other Titles - Accommodation house ...on the Taramakau Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 177 mm