Places

Date: [ca 1900]

Reference: 1/2-077464-F

Description: Overlooking the house of Alexander Richardson Watson in Devonport, Auckland, circa 1900. Photographer unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Biographical information about A R Watson, and about the house in this photograph supplied by Doug Bolitho in August 2008. This house was built ca 1879 for Mr W L Rees, and bought by A R Watson in 1882. Watson did extensive work to the grounds, leveling, terracing and planting. Watson died in 1911 and his estate including this house was inherited by his son, Alexander Richardson Dickie Watson, who died in 1917, leaving no natural family. After the First world War the house was used as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers, and in 1934 was partly destroyed by fire. It was demolished in about 1936. (Information from Watson's great great nephew, Doug Bolitho, August 2008. Watson's obituary can be found in the New Zealand Herald for 30 October 1911.) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1905

By: Hammon, George Hamilton, 1869-1960

Reference: B-189-011

Description: A view of Ahuriri, or the inner harbour in Napier. One small house can be seen in the middle distance. The view is possibly looking north-west, with a range of hills visible in the distance Attached to the back of the matt is a typescript that reads 'Australian artist. Lived there for some time. Did monochrome watercolours mostly around Sydney. He has work in the Turnball [sic] and in Hocken Libraries. He has done watercolours of Hobart, Mt Turnball [sic], Lake Wakatipu, Sydney Harbour and Timaru' The view is significant as the harbour appears as it did before the 1931 earthquake that raised the sea floor by 2.7 metres, with the Ahuriri Lagoon and tidal flats drained Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - The inner harbour / Napier NZ / G Hamilton Hammon 1905 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 370 x 253 mm (sight), in matt 535 x 405 mm

Date: 1846 - 1840

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; A Gide, active 1846; Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Lemercier, Alfred Léon, active 1830s-1840s

Reference: C-170-001

Description: Shows a view of the harbour with four sailing ships anchored offshore, from the visit of Dumont d'Urville to Akaroa in 1840. The shore in the foreground shows native vegetation, some Maori whare and lagoons. Other Titles - Akaroa Harbour (New Zealand) (translation) Extended Title - From: Dumont D'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1838-1842. Paris, Gide, 1846. Atlas pittoresque. Pl. 185 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Gide / Editeur / Paris [embossed] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, with gum arabic, 260 x 440 mm on sheet 430 x 610 mm

Date: 1866

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-040-002

Description: A view from Bluff Hill, Napier, looking north down to Westshore and Port Ahuriri. There are houses on a spit of land surrounded by water and further low-lying islands without houses. A steam ship and a number of sailing ships can be seen in the harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / N.Z. 1866 See also NON-ATL-P-0124, which describes a photograph taken of this painting. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 515 x 735 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase: privately owned, Hawke's Bay. Previously purchased from McArthur's auction, Auckland, 1980s? Prior to that from Sotheby's, London.

Date: 1846 - 1840

By: Le Breton, Louis Auguste Marie, 1818-1866; A Gide, active 1846; Sabatier, Leon Jean-Baptiste, -1887; Lemercier, Alfred Léon, active 1830s-1840s

Reference: C-165-006

Description: Shows a view of the harbour with four sailing ships anchored offshore, from the visit of Dumont d'Urville to Akaroa in 1840. The shore in the foreground shows native vegetation, some Maori whare and lagoons. Other Titles - Akaroa Harbour (New Zealand) (translation) Extended Title - From: Dumont D'Urville, J. S. C. Voyage au Pole Sud et dans l'Oceanie ... 1838-1842. Paris, Gide, 1846. Atlas pittoresque. Pl. 185 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Gide / Editeur / Paris [embossed] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Sepia lithograph, 260 x 440 mm on sheet 350 x 545 mm

Date: [ca. 1848]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Longueville, H N, active 19th century?; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-465-015

Description: A view of Nelson Harbour from the hills above, and possibly from where William Fox was living. The Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island are visible, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. A two-masted ship and two waka can be seen in Nelson Haven, as well as two other vessels out in Tasman Bay. There are figures unloading barrels on the shore, and two houses in the foreground on the left Accompanied by a photocopied letter, originally adhered to the back of the painting, from Dawn Smith of the Nelson Provincial Library, dated 1982. It suggests the (unsigned) work is by William Fox, and that the handwriting on the recto is that of a Miss Longueville, some of whose works the Nelson Museum holds Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - View of the harbour, Nelson NZ [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 253 x 340 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, from collection of Don Ellis, art collector, until about 1983; may have come from the album of a Miss Longueville

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Milnes, Frederick Y, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1819-F

Description: Panoramic view of Otago Harbour across the centre of the image. Houses on sloping hill on the right including a single-storeyed house centre right with verandah and conservatory [?] on right. Road along the waterfront. Pockets of housing on hills across the harbour. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - St Leonards. Dunedin. N.Z. No. 625; Marginal notes on negative - F.G. Milnes [F.Y. Milnes]. St Leonards. Dunedin. 1 B&W Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 107.8 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

Reference: Pan-1823-F

Description: Panoramic view looking down over St Clair and South Dunedin, taken from Montecillo. Large playing fields in the left foreground. Cemetery on a sloping hill in the right foreground with large gas tank beyond the cemetery. Causeway across bay on far left, harbour in the distance. Housing and industrial areas. Taen in 1925 by Robert Percy Moore Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - St Clair & South Dunedin. No. 619. Dunedin, N.Z. from Monteceillo [i.e. Montecillo]; Marginal notes on negative - (On brown adhesive tape) St. Clair & South Dunedin from Montecillo; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.0 cm

Date: 1856

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-139-017

Description: Shows a view along the Wellington shoreline, looking north. Part of Barrett's Hotel is shown on the extreme left, beside a classical revival building. There are shops in the distance. A red-coated soldier leans against the door to Barrett's Hotel. A small rowboat is in the sea to the right of the road Title on engraved plate on frame. Artist attributed because of similarity of subject to Holmes' "Wellington Beach 1856" (A-032-040). The work is not as finished as that one however. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 343 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to that in the collection of Mr Charles Levin of Sanson, descendant of W. H. Levin.

Date: 1859

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Martin G. Heywood (Firm); Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-051-007

Description: View of Lyttelton, possibly from Quail Island, looking at the township from the south east, with Holy Trinity Church, John Robert Godley's house, other houses, businesses and wharves, against a backdrop of the Port Hills. In the foreground, cabbage trees and flaxes. Three schooners are close to the foreground. Ellis, E.M & D.G Early prints of New Zealand 1642-1875 Christchurch: Avon Fine Prints, no. 549. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 print pasted on card; tinted lithograph 248 x 388 mm, on sheet 342 x 498 mm, on card 370 x 525 mm Provenance: K.A. Webster collection, London (collection stamp on backing board).

Date: 1863

By: Eastwood, James, 1846-1937; Donne, Thomas Edward, 1860-1945

Reference: A-050-020

Description: A view from the road leading down into the port from the south, with a couple standing on the road looking at the view. A house is below the road amidst low scrub, with several other roofs visible, and ships and a mole can be seen, as well as the hills on the opposite side Attributed by Anne Kirker; see TL 3/1/1, 19.12.75 Other Titles - Port Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top left - title and date in pencil. Also in pencil on the verso 'Port Lyttelton' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 115 x 190 mm Provenance: Formerly in the collection of T E Donne

Date: 1893

By: New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-005

Description: View from the lower end of the Terrace, looking down into the Aro Valley and Te Aro Flat and across towards Mount Victoria, Oriental Bay and the Miramar Peninsula. Part of the Thorndon end of the city can be seen on the left. Courtenay Place runs away from the viewer in the centre of the scene, with Marjoribanks Street moving up Mount Victoria. The gasometers on both sides of Courtenay Place show clearly. On the far right in the distance is Wellington College. Same as D-001-005-a, -b & -c and as a framed version at G-385 Extended Title - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand Graphic, 1893 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 360 x 940 on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: 1 Jul 1899

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PA7-49-01

Description: View looking east towards North Head and downtown Auckland. There are a large number of ships and yachts in the harbour. In the foreground is a large area of open ground. Photograph taken by Hanna photographic studio, 1 July 1899 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Hanna photo. Protected 1/7/99 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 23.5 x 36.3 cm

Date: 1869

By: Browning, John Samuel, 1831-1909

Reference: A-113-011

Description: View looking north along the Hokitika River towards the port and town area, showing a ferry, ships, sawmills, Gibson's Quay Hotel, houses, and the railway track in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in upper case lettering. On right, artist's initials and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 153 x 380 mm

Date: 1842 - 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: ca 1870s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

Reference: PA1-q-262-54

Description: View looking from The Terrace across Wellington City and Harbour toward Somes Island. Several sailing ships can be seen in the harbour. Queen's Wharf is visible on the extreme left and the spire of St Johns Church can be seen on the left. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1870s. Note on back of file print reads: taken before 1878 when St Peters Anglican Church, Ghuznee/Willis Street was replaced. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-075

Description: A scene at Whangarei Harbour showing a house at the water's edge with the harbour's north head in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Whangarei Harbuor. North Head. 13/10/82. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 225 x 237 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-002

Description: Shows a harbour view framed by trees, with flat land in the middle distance and houses beyond that. High hills across the far side of the harbour. Possibly a view from Tinakori Hill looking across Thorndon Flat The domestic building depicted is possibly the vicarage of St Paul's, in which Bishop and Caroline Abraham lived from 1860-1870 Other Titles - [Harbour view with houses. Former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, on page 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918 :[South Island sketches, 1870-1888]

By: Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918

Reference: A-120-030

Description: A panoramic view over Port Chalmers and Otago Harbour, looking out to sea to the sea beyond the Otago Peninsula on a calm day. There are ships in the water at Port Chalmers, and the houses of the Port on the side of the hill below. Quarantine Island can be seen in the harbour waters in the centre. Larnach's Castle (built 1873-1876) may be the building visible in the distance on the hills opposite. Aramoana is the low-lying sandy area on the far left. Detached from: Welch, J. S. [Album of Sketches] 1876 The tunnel referred to in the title (not visible) is the railway tunnel above Deborah Bay. Welch was responsible for much of the surveying for the railway northwards of Dunedin Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 244 x 389 mm

Date: 1860 - 1884

Reference: G-082

Description: A scene with with a waterfront road, a breakwater and jetty. Between Mechanics Bay in the foreground and Commercial Bay in the background where several ships are anchored, is a distinctive high mound, the end of the Britomart promontory. On top of the headland at the left is a church (St Pauls) with a red wooden spire. To its right is the Albert Barracks. Below this is Emily Place. Ships' masts in the background are those moored at Queen's Wharf St Paul's Church was demolished in 1884, so the picture shows a scene before that date. The breakwater in Mechanics Bay dates from the 1870s. The mound shown is the end of Britomart Point with a road cut through on its left. This cutting was made around 1875, part of the reclamation of land and cutting a road through Britomart Point. The remaining mound was demolished over the next few years. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 200 x 330 mm (sight) Provenance: On offer in 2002 at John Leech Gallery, Auckland, with a provenance of Private Collection, Auckland