Places

Date: 1852

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry 1802-1864 :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / R.H.W. - 1852.

Reference: A-081-036

Description: View from beyond Lyttelton, looking back towards the town and the Bridle Path, to the left, rising to the summit of the hills behind it. Houses are shown at the water's edge and rising a considerable distance up the hill. There are a wharf shed and a jetty also at the water's edge Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title, date, artist's initials Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash and ink, 200 x 250 mm.

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: 1880s

From: Tonks album

Reference: PA1-o-497-05

Description: View of Colombo Street taken fron the north bank of the River Avon looking towards the Cathedral. The Port Hills can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872

Reference: PUBL-0001-3

Description: Shows the Heathcote River, Forty Miles Beach (Pegasus Bay) and settlers driving stock down the Bridle Path. Based on an ink drawing by William Fox, located at A-195-014. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 164 x 362 mm.

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-009

Description: The first buildings around the Avon River, in what was to become central Christchurch. Flax growing in the foreground and a bridge over the river. The Port Hills are in the distance. The area shown is Oxford Terrace, with the Worcester Street bridge on the right in the middle distance. The dark two-storied house left of centre is the house of Dr A C Barker. The central two-storied house is that of William Guise Brittan. The Lands Office is left of the bridge Copied from an engraving in "Illustrated London News" April 9,1853 p. 268 which was after a sketch by Dr A C Barker Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 387 x 228 mm Provenance: Purchase: A H Turnbull from English dealer Albert Berthel, of Richmond, 1914.

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: 1869

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

Reference: E-017-1-010/011

Description: A large house and garden, on flat land with the Port Hills in the background. The house has a verandah along the left side and other buildings adjacent on the right. Two men an a woman are playing croquet on the lawn to the left. A lawn roller is alongside a path on the right The area shown may be Opawa. A view on page 7 of this sketchbook shows Thomas Hassal's home in Opawa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two pages in sketchbook, 74 x 256 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-020/021

Description: The head of Lyttelton Harbour from the Port Hills, looking towards Mount Herbert (marked), Quail Island and Gebbies Pass Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1851

By: Ffitch, Henry, 1840-1918; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: G-241

Description: Shows a view over the Avon River towards the Port Hills, with the houses of Dr Alfred Barker, Mr Guise Brittan and the Lands Office all on Oxford Terrace, close to the Worcester Street Bridge. Dr Barker's house is shown tarred. There is a flag flying outside the Lands Office. A more distant building is the Lyttelton Hotel. A bullock team waits by the riverside, and there is a horse and rider further away on Oxford Terrace. The near side of the river has flax, and a cabbage tree at the right. The view is similar to an original sketch by Dr A C Barker done in 1851, a version of which was reproduced in the Illustrated London news, volume 22, no 616 (9 April 1853), page 268. As the artist is thought to have been only 11-12 years old in 1851, the painting is probably done from memory, or copied from one of Dr A C Barker's sketches, or a reproduction of one of Barker's sketches in the Illustrated London news. There is another version of a very similar view by Ffitch or Fitch, in the Canterbury Museum, also an oil painting. It includes a tent, and has no horse. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 500 x 330 mm. Provenance: Previously the work had been in a farmhouse on the West Coast.

Date: 1886

By: Peele, James, 1847-1905; Hunter, J (Mrs), active 1944

Reference: G-559

Description: Shows the Heathcote River in Christchurch with the Port Hills in the background, including Castle Rock, painted from Ferry Road. Ferry Road had a tram running along it until the 1950s. Title previously misinterpreted and misread as "Cramlohe River from tramway". Other Titles - Cramlohe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. Peele / 1886; Verso - centre - Heathcote River from Tramway Peele was a banker in Rangiora and Amberley in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 251 x 458 mm. Provenance: Donation: Mrs J Hunter, Heretaunga, 20 November 1944

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-016/017

Description: A panoramic view from the Port Hills up the coast towards the Alps, with Dean's Bush and Papanui Bush marked as well as a hill (probably Mount Grey) named as Maukateu Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1850 - 1855

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Martin G. Heywood (Firm); Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor (Firm); Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Ellis, Enid Margaret, 1941-

Reference: D-001-032

Description: Shows Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, the Estuary, and Pegasus Bay from a point on the Port Hills, probably the top of the Bridle Path. View dates from about 1850-54. ATL has Avon Fine Prints facsimiles of this work, at C-061-024/024-b. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Mat recto - beneath image - (In pencil by later hand): 1850 Norman was in New Zealand in the 1840s, and then appears to have returned in 1850. He was appointed to a surveying post in Kaikoura in 1852; but before and after that he travelled around as an artist. The original drawing for this work may have been done in 1850 or at any time in the early 1850s. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted & hand-coloured, 262 x 847 mm, on sheet 325 x 890 mm. Provenance: Had previously belonged to Don and Enid Ellis of Christchurch and was the original on which the Avon Fine Prints reproduction (published 1968) was based.

Date: 1853

By: Dobson, Edward, 1816-1908

Reference: B-035-020

Description: A mill building with mill-wheel beside a stream, with the other buildings of Fendalton and the Port Hills in the background. Shows Daniel Inwood's first flourmill at Christchurch, on the corner of Fendalton Road and the east side of Straven Road. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia ink and wash, 171 x 255 mm Provenance: Possibly once the property of Rex Nan Kivell, or photographed by him. Item 190, Volume 1, p. 62 of the volumes of photographs of material in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, shows this image. He may have had it photographed as an interesting item of early Christchurch history, rather than actually owning it.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-111

Description: One view looking up to the Port Hills from Lyttelton; one looking across Lyttelton Harbour towards Gebbie's Pass, with Quail Island Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm. (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-022/023

Description: View from the Port Hills, looking towards Lyttelton Harbour on the left, Gebbies Pass with Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) on the right Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Sept 12; Recto - bottom left - Pass to the plain. 5 pm; Recto - bottom right - from Port Cooper to coalmines Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1852

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: A-457-002

Description: A view of Lyttelton and the Port Hills, showing the Bridle Path at the left, and the harbour in the foreground Undoubtedly a preliminary sketch for Wynyard's more detailed drawing of the settlement (A-081-036), which shows the buildings and hills in greater detail, but from an identical perspective. The finished sketch is dated March 1852 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Lyttelton [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 184 x 222 mm