Places

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-085-1

Description: Scene aboard the Champion timber boat for Nelson from Wellington, with families bedded down on deck, 1852. A curtain in the middle divides some groups from others. The families appear to be lying in the bow of the ship. Some are already asleep, others are awake. One woman on the right is breastfeeding a baby. There are about 25 people lying down. Pearse has inscribed the front left figure as 'I myself' and the seated woman immediately beyond him as 'Scotch neighbour' Inscriptions: Album page - above image - title and date continue: the only kind of craft plying between these ports in these days and shame to the skipper for the accommodation. However in the next run from Sydney to New Zealand the Champion went down with all hands - the Skipper and crew were never heard of again. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 200 x 323 mm

Date: 1880

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-085/086

Description: Sketch of a young woman, dressed in cape with hood and with blankets covering the lower half of her body, asleep in a chair on a ship's deck. The ship's wheel and the hand of the steersman can be seen to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title and date and G A M This sketch would have been made en route to Norfolk Island, on the 'Southern cross', for the opening of St Barnabas, Norfolk Island (information from Mr F Wright, October 2008; see article in 'Church gazette' for 1880) Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

Date: 1901

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to ships and shipping companies, mainly on voyages to and around New Zealand. 1900-1904]

By: Smith, Clive Kingsley, active 1901

Reference: Eph-A-SHIP-1901-02

Description: The left side shows a programme of songs and piano solos, performed on the "Gothic" by Mrs Herapath, Mr W S Inman, Miss K Smith, Mr E G Parrot, Miss M J Jollie, Mr R Wilson, Mrs Parrot, Mr Waymouth, Mrs J R Skeet, Mr Pryce Jones, Mr Howlison, Mr Gaunt. Apart from Mr Inman (ship's purser) and Mr Waymouth these were all saloon passengers on board the "Gothic", leaving London on 30 August 1901. The right side shows a cartoon of passengers disembarking at Somes Island where they were to be quarantined. The cartoonist is C.K.S., likely to be passenger Mr C Kingsley Smith. Other Titles - Somes Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress and offset on opened programme, 200 x 255 mm.

Date: 1888

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] Ravensbourne, 1888

Reference: E-016-3-050

Description: View on board a small paddle-steamer in rough seas, with men holding rails on an upper deck, others seated or lying down below Probably in Foveaux Strait, on a crossing between Bluff and Stewart Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 89 x 156 mm (page size)

Date: 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-001

Description: Shows passengers on the deck of the ferry steamer Wakatipu on Foveaux Strait. The passengers are variously promenading, admiring the view, reading a newspaper or a book, or sitting and talking. A lifeboat can be seen at an upper level of the ship. A preliminary pencil drawing of the same scene is held at E-147-041 'S S Wakatip - Stewart Island trip on deck, 25/12/96 [sic]. The way some people enjoy themselves, see back for the way other people enjoy themselves'. The back shows a seasick passenger lying in a bunk. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 255 mm

Date: 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, George Hildebrand, 1850-1905

Reference: A-446-038

Description: Shows a view of three men on the deck of the Crusader, which sailed from London in October 1872 and arrived in Lyttelton in January 1873. Two of the men are painted in mostly grey-black hues, but the man in the foreground has on a brown double-breasted jacket and fawn trousers, and a black hat. He sports a thick black beard and smokes a pipe. It might be assumed that this is a picture of George Hildebrand Alington on his passage to New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Onboard the Crusader 1872; Verso - bottom left - This side not very clean Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and pen on paper, 180 x 127 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.