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Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-051

Description: Shows rolling hilly farm country with Mt Manaia in the background. There is part of a small cottage with water barrels on the extreme right, by a winding dirt road, and a horse and possibly cattle graze in the left foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 187 mm.

Date: 1861

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: C-003-004

Description: This is a larger and more finished version of the image at C-003-001. Nine-part panorama forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt. Shows the parsonage with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, roads, bush and hills in the background. There are men on horseback, a light horse-drawn trap, men ploughing with a horse-drawn plough, and a wagon drawn by two horses. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At lower edge of each panel): TBH; Album page - centre - (On verso of one of the panels): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 173 x 2250 mm, on nine joined panels, each 173 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased from a direct descendant of Bishop Selwyn, who previously owned the works. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-248.

Date: 1999

By: Henshaw, David, 1939-2014

Reference: J-050-001/012

Description: Cartoons of rural life. Quantity: 12 colour pages from calendar. Physical Description: Reproductions of watercolour and pen. Image sizes 280 x 390 mm.

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-079-018

Description: An extensive view at Waimate North, with a windmill, the mission station and the church on the horizon. Bracken in the foreground and a rutted dirt road running away into the distance. Fenced paddocks to the right and three small people walking away on the road to the left. Several dead trees in the foreground. Compare a very similar work by Cyprian Bridge at A-079-035 The work appears to have been part of a sketchbook at an earlier stage, with signs of having been bound on its left side. Probably removed by the Library from album E-320-f, which contained 16 sketches on acquisition by Alexander Turnbull in 1893. Identification: the reference to 'Poka Noi' is to a volcanic cone, Puke Nui, or Pukenui, now known as Te Ahuahu, just visible in the centre background Other Titles - Waimate North, Pukenui, Puke Nui, Tamati Waka Nene Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured crayon over sepia ink and wash, 253 x 365 mm

Date: [ca 1903]

From: McIntosh album 17

Reference: PA1-o-301-869

Description: View of Horokiwi. Hills can be seen in the background. The foreground is divided by what is probably Horokiwi Road with a man standing on the verge. A post and rail fence rignt foreground, and hedge fences on both sides of the road. A macrocapa shelter belt hides all but the chimney and a portion of the roof of a house. Probably photographed by George William Barltrop in about 1903. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Horokiwi Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15 x 10.7 cm

Date: 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-013

Description: Two large flax bushes in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Maori excavations for pa on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert, with other hills in the background. Mt Albert has no houses on or around it Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 247 mm

Date: 1919

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-157-004

Description: Shows a road in the foreground, passing by the waterwheel and flour mill buildings set slightly below road level. There is a weeping willow at the right. The terrain is rolling hill country. Note on back: Built by Charles Lagden Haylock & his sons who landed in Akaroa in 1850 by the Barque "Monarch". See also the oil painting at G-456, showing the mill from the opposite side. Notes with this picture indicate that C L Haylock lived in a cottage on the site. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 178 x 244 mm.