Places

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Wright, Vince William, 1857-1930

Reference: Pan-0872

Description: Panoramic view of two-storeyed Lagmhor homestead, taken in 1925 by R P Moore of Wellington. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - "Laghmor Homestead 1925"; Marginal notes on negative - V W Wright Laghmor [i.e. Lagmhor] Ashburton; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Lagmohr Homestead 1925 [i.e. Lagmhor Homestead] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulose nitrate negative 19.7 x 108.9 cm

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: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-005/006

Description: Shows the single-storey house with verandah, near the bank of the lake, with hills behind. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, red ink and sepia wash on double page spread, 90 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donation: David Gibson, Cheltenham, England, 1989.

Date: 1882

From: Artist unknown :[North Canterbury sketches] 1882-1883

Reference: E-404-009

Description: Shows the right hand side of a three-part panorama of the Horsely Down station, this segment showing a flat plain or river valley seen from the high ground of the station. Other Titles - Horsely Down Inscriptions: Album page - Inscription faces image. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash on page 90 x 130 mm.

Date: 1883 - 1890

By: Preston, James, 1834-1898

Reference: A-123-004

Description: Shows a homestead and farm buildings with three horses in the foreground, fences, farm carts, two men attending to another horse, a carcass-hanger and a train in the background. The homestead is surrounded by a hedge of young conifers [possibly the site of the first homestead on Albury Station, South Canterbury]. Little is known about 'Cricklewood Station' or 'Cricklewood House/homestead'. It was presumably situated in the area still known as Cricklewood, in the Mackenzie Country, North-West of Timaru (and the artist lived in this area). It was reputedly burnt down, possibly in the 1880s. This watercolour was given its title by the Curator by reason of a comparison with an almost identical painting by Preston titled 'Cricklewood'. The latter is held by the Canterbury Museum and reproduced in: Oakley, John. "Paintings of Canterbury 1840-1890" (Wellington, 1969) p. 59. There was a large sheep station called Kingsbury alongside Cricklewood Railway Station by 1911, and this view may show Kingsbury Station Dating: trains did not run through the Cricklewood area until 1883, giving an earliest date at which this watercolour could have been done. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Title supplied by Library. Reverend James Preston often undertook journeys by horse around his parish of Geraldine. The area known as Cricklewood is part of the Albury district in South Canterbury. Cricklewood railway station was on the Fairlie to Timaru railway line. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 227 x 300 mm Provenance: Preston family.

Date: 25 Apr 1920

From: Webb, Steffano, 1880-1967: Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/1-004375-G

Description: Photograph taken by the Steffano Webb Photographic Studio, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches

Date: 1917

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0462-1/2-G

Description: Looking down on the back of the Mendip Hills Homestead (owned by Andrew William Rutherford) from a field above, with most of the house hidden by hedges. A path with a farm gate runs behind the house. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1917. Original print in Godber album, Vol 109, p 11 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - "Mendip Hills" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75

Date: [ca 1905]

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from file print collection, Box 6

By: Marks, J M, active 1905

Reference: PAColl-5932-64

Description: Waiau River and bridge, Canterbury, with Lochiel Station and homestead. Photograph taken circa 1905 by J M Marks. Note on back of file print reads: "The Lochiel Station - a part of Montrose. Was at one time the Ferry (Waiou Hotel)" Note on back of file print reads: "See Gardner, W J "The Amuri, A County History" and Macfarlane "Amuri". Lochiel was once home to the Rutherford family. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 16.3 x 21 cm

Date: 1925

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Millton, Edward Bowler, 1861-1942

Reference: Pan-1844-F

Description: Birch Hill Station farmhouse, garden and grounds at Rangiora, in 1925. House centre left, with Arts and Crafts features, attic windows in the roof. Curved lawn in front of the house, flower beds and high clipped hedges on both sides. Sweeping lawns on a lower level with specimen trees including cabbage trees and shrubs. Gardens and house surrounded by tall shelter belts of trees. Mountains in the background. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - - `Birch Hill Station' 1925 -; Marginal notes on paper attached to negative - Col E B Milton [i.e. Millton]. Title `Birch Hill' Station. Rangiora. 1925. 1 Oils. 1 B & W. Red roof. Cream house. Put roses on rose bower. Dark green hills on right. Autumn tints. Red geraniums in front windows. Small amount of snow on hills. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

Reference: E-017-1-006

Description: A large house and garden, probably a farm homestead. A stream runs in the foreground and tall hills are in the background. The hills appear to be Christchurch's Port Hills, and the house may be in the Opawa or Heathcote area The drawing on the following page of the sketchbook is of an Opawa residence, apparently visited by Hodgkins Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, 74 x 128 mm (page size)

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-017

Description: A naive watercolour of the Deans brothers' farmhouse and outbuildings, viewed from across the "Avon or Shakspear River", with horses, cows and sheep in the foreground, a log bridge, a man (presumably one of the Deans brothers) with a dog under a tree. The house is red, with a second storey with dormer window, a rain barrel below the downpipe from the roof. The outbuildings to the right of the house appear to be thatched stables, are open at the front and shelter a horse and three carts. Trees are roughly indicated behind the house. On the verso are holograph notes about Banks' Peninsula, copied from Duppa, Daniels [?] and Tyrell and from Captain [William Mein] Smith about Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and its merits for settlement versus those of Akaroa. Dating: William Deans was drowned in 1851, a fact that is not mentioned here, suggesting, along with the general tone of the notes, that this drawing may have been completed before then, although the two-storied building on the site was not completed until 1856. Other material from the same source was produced about 1850 or 1851. William Mein Smith's report was completed about 1843. The page has been removed from a notebook. The author of the notes (and artist) appears to be somebody associated with the Canterbury Association. The first two-storied house at Deans' property was built in 1856, when Jane Deans built a larger house on the site in preparation for the arrival of her brother and his family. The house shown here may be the 1856 north-east section, the earliest part of modern Riccarton House. Other sections were added in 1874 and 1900, resulting in a much larger building. One possible artist is John Henry Cridland, whose other drawings from the same source are quite naive. However another drawing by him of the Deans' property (neg MNZ 1215 1/4 - 'Riccarton, November 1850' - Hocken Library) is very different in style from this one. Identification: The building shown appears to be a roughly-drawn version of the first two-storied house on the site, completed in 1856. Other drawings of the same building appear as Plate 5 and Plate 14 (the latter by Robert Park) in Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains. The Deans family of Riccarton and Homebush by John Deans (Christchurch, 1964). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink as above, with "only 50 Godley" in pencil in another hand]; Recto - centre right - [in river, in pencil]: Avon or Shakspear River.; Verso - [in ink, page covered in text] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watecolour on laid paper 310 x 198 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to a volume of The New Zealand Journal, ca 1852, from Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection. Prior to acquisition by Alexander Turnbull the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

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: 1860 - 1869

By: Babington, Thomas A, active 1860s; Ray, Kenneth J, active 1950-2005

Reference: A-253-030

Description: Shows the farmhouse, barns, and property of surveyor Charles Reginald Shaw. The property is backed by tall trees, a drive runs towards the homestead through a small stream and several horses graze in the foreground Mounted on board Identified as the work of T A Babington from photographs of similar privately-owned paintings and drawings, several associated with C R Shaw, including the Library's watercolour of Shaw's house at Timaru (Reference number B-035-037) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 160 x 354 mm

Date: ca 1880s

From: Original photographic prints and postcards from the file print collection, Box 19

Reference: PAColl-7985-21

Description: View of Castle Hill, Canterbury. A man and a dog are at a gate in the foreground and there is a homestead in the distance. Photographed ca 1880s, possibly by the Burton Brothers. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - 1520[?] Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.8 x 19.7 cm

Date: ca 1915

From: The Press (Newspaper) :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-011938-G

Description: Looking over a field of daffodils, towards Otahuna homestead, Taitapu, Canterbury. Photograph taken circa 1915 by an unidentified photographer for The Press newspaper. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative Processing information: The collection description was updated in November 2020 with information regarding commercial use of the photographs.

Date: 1917

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-0466-1/2-G

Description: Mendip Hills Homestead (owned by Andrew William Rutherford), with people playing croquet on a distant court, and a marked tennis court in the foreground. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1917. Original print in Godber album, Vol 109, p 11 (PA1-q-102) Inscriptions: Album page - "Mendip Hills" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75

Date: 1871

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-253-013

Description: View across a flat river valley, with a shallow river winding through, and a small house against trees to the left, at the foot of bush-clad hills and snow-capped mountains. Birchdale Valley is not a current geographical name but the scene has been identified as Birchdale, the station of George Edward Mason, west of Mason's Flat, Hurunui. Grouped on acquisition with A-253-011 and A-253-012, both attributed to C. D. Barraud. The paper appears to be identical, although the style is not obviously that of C. D. Barraud (in the case of A-253-013), nor does the title appear to be in his hand. It could have been captioned by someone else, later. It was not Barraud's practice to put inverted commas around the titles of paintings. He did occasionally, however, work in the combination of pencil, wash and Chinese White seen here. In 1871 Barraud was in the South Island on a painting tour, preparing work for his book 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive'. Birchdale Valley is not found as a current or recorded obsolete geographical name. Two Birchdale Homesteads are a possibility as locations for this view, both in Canterbury, close to the foothills of the Southern Alps Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 'Birchdale Valley, 1871' [in pencil outside a ruled line defining the edge of the picture] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour and Chinese white on cream wove paper, 177 x 260 mm

Date: 1906

By: Banks, Isabel Violet, 1873-; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-078-028

Description: A view of Charles Tripp's homestead at Orari Gorge, Canterbury, with a large round rock (concretion) ornamenting the front lawn by the drive, three children on the lawn amongst cabbage trees, a bridge or outbuildings to the left and hills behind. The front lawn is circled by a drive. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 184 x 294 mm

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Chamier, George, 1842-1915; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-014

Description: Shows part of Mount Grey Station with its house and outbuildings, windmill in the centre, Mount Grey in the background Attributed on acquisition to the Library to F. A. Weld, like the rest of the Scrope/Weld collection. However removal of its backing revealed a pencilled title in Weld's hand 'Leithfield New Zealand by George Chamier' Other Titles - [Mount Grey Station with windmill] Inscriptions: Verso - Leithfield New Zealand by George Chamier [in pencil in the hand of former owner, F. A. Weld] The artist was a surveyor in the Kowai Road district, 1864-1866. He left for England in 1867 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 135 x 223 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.