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Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-039

Description: A view across rolling countryside towards a central house and several other peripheral houses with a background of bush. Two conical tents and a fenced area are in the right foreground and a dead tree trunk is in the centre foreground. Part of the side of Mt Taranaki rises up to the right of the view. Title from verso Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-056

Description: Three drawings on one page. 'Whata' shows a carved storehouse (pataka) on a raised platform (whata). 'Keri Keri store' (Church crossed out) shows the stone store at Kerikeri, viewed from the side, with Kemp's house visible beyond it. [Raupo houses and tents] shows two small raupo houses, one with four windows and a door, a fenced garden and two tents pitched, two small groups of Maori, hills behind. The Library holds only photographic copies of originals in the British Library Add MS 19953, folio 56 (163 to 165) Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of three drawings, various media

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; C Hullmandel (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-026-003

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach, below Britannia Heights. Shows Haulashore Island, looking towards Moutere Hills, and Tasman Ranges. House at left is a prefabricated barracks. Ships include Will Watch, Whitby and Arrow. Library holds 7 copies of this print in various states, C-026-003-a to g. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone 368 x 522 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Turnbull ordered a print 'View of Nelson Harbour' [sic] from Angus and Robertson, Sydney, in a letter of 20 April 1896. He paid 42 shillings for the print.

Date: 1847

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Power, William James Murray Tyrone (Sir), 1819-1911; McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877

Reference: E-078-q

Description: 1. Wash drawing of a Maori family, seated outside a tent, beside a whare, probably near Wanganui. 2. Prelimary pencil sketch of two houses, with a river beyond, probably Whanganui River looking west. 3. Pencil sketch panorama of Wanganui from the opposite bank of the river showing Rutland and York Stockades (built 1847) and the first Christ Church. 4., 5., & 6. Unfinished sketches, including a further view of Rutland Stockade, small drawings of groups of Maori, houses and a balloon-like object. Attributed to Robert Park on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and monotone wash & pencil (6 drawings), 253 x 185 mm

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm)

Reference: C-026-003-o

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach, below Britannia Heights, of agroup of immigrant tents. Shows Haulashore Island, looking towards Moutere Hills, and Tasman Ranges. House at left is a prefabricated barracks. Ships include Will Watch, Whitby and Arrow. Deframed by the Library. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured lithograph, image 367 x 524 mm, on sheet 432 x 568 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade

Reference: C-029-011

Description: Shows and names important features: Jail, immigration barracks, survey office, church, hospital, courthouse, government offices, bank, and several private dwellings and other landmarks. Also shows surveyors at work, settlers camping, building a house and clearing the land. This copy is uncoloured and is the centre section only of a three-part panorama. Extended Title - From: Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand, 1845. Plate VII. Centre section only. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - THE TOWN AND PART OF THE HARBOUR OF NELSON IN 1842, about a Year after its first foundation.; Recto - above image - Separation Point between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay / Auckland Point / Boulder Bank forming Nelson Haven; Recto - beneath image - Jail Company's Immigration Barracks / Survey Office and Temporary Church Company's Hospital Immigration Office / and Depot House of / Mr Tuckett / Chief Surveyor Court House and / Government Offices House of the late / Mr Thompson / Police Magistrate House of Mr McDonald / Banker, late Sheriff Bank Residence of the late W. C. Young Esqre / now that of the Revd. Reay; Recto - beneath image - Drawn by John Saxton Esqr / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill ATL has (mostly hand-coloured) lithographs to Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand", 1845 in Drawings and Prints, and at f919.31 WAK. Manuscripts and Archives records contain information about the people mentioned on this image. John Saxton arrived in Nelson in 1842. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 245 x 453, on sheet 360 x 542 mm.

Date: 1845 - 1865

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Churton family; Marvin, William Geoffrey, 1928-; Heaphy, Catherine Letitia, 1830-1910

Reference: A-050-027

Description: Maori group beside European military tents at river mouth, with samll bridge and trees, with ships in harbour in background. Two rowboats moored at rivermouth Attributed by the previous owner to Charles Heaphy, showing early site of Auckland and painted about the time of the Northland wars. However, the style of the work is not like Heaphy's, and Heaphy was not in Auckland in 1844. The background harbour does appear to be Waitemata Harbour, Auckland, and the work with a Heaphy-related provenance may be by a member of the Churton family. It may date from the 1860s, rather then the 1840s Inscriptions: Verso - label and other inscriptions written by seller of this work, describing it as by Charles Heaphy, showing the early site of Auckland and painted about 1844. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, with Chinese white, ink and gum arabic over pencil 109 x 198 mm on card 182 x 274 mm Provenance: By descent from Churton family, with other material connected with Charles Heaphy. (Heaphy's wife was Kate Churton)

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866; Day & Haghe (Firm); New Zealand. Ministry of External Relations and Trade

Reference: B-080-032

Description: Shows and names important features: Printing Office of the Nelson Examiner, jail, immigration barracks, survey office, church, hospital, courthouse, government offices, bank, brick kiln, and several private dwellings and other landmarks. Also shows surveyors at work, settlers camping, building a house and working the land. Extended Title - From: Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand, 1845. Plate VII. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - THE TOWN AND PART OF THE HARBOUR OF NELSON IN 1842, about a Year after its first foundation.; Recto - above image - Mount Vernon The path to the Haven / crosses the heights here Britannia Heights between the Town and Haven Separation Point between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay / Auckland Point / Boulder Bank forming Nelson Haven Malvern Hills Valley of the MAITAI Mountains towards / the Pelorus River; Recto - beneath image - Mr Jollie's House Mr James Elliott's House The House of Mr G. Elliott. / (now the Printing Office of the Nelson Examiner) House of the late Mr Cotterell Jail Company's Immigration Barracks / Survey Office and Temporary Church Company's Hospital Immigration Office / and Depot House of / Mr Tuckett / Chief Surveyor Court House and / Government Offices House of the late / Mr Thompson / Police Magistrate House of Mr McDonald / Banker, late Sheriff Bank Residence of the late W. C. Young Esqre / now that of the Revd. Reay The Eel pond / (site of the Meat Market) House of the Revd. C.W. Saxton. Brick Kiln Little Scotland; Recto - beneath image - Drawn by John Saxton Esqr / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill; Recto - bottom right - DAY & HAGHE LITHRS to the QUEEN ATL has lithographs to Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand", 1845 in Drawings and Prints at f919.31 WAK. John Saxton arrived in Nelson in 1842. Manuscripts and Archives records contain information about the people mentioned on this image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph in three parts, totalling 245 x 1410 mm (image), on sheet 345 x 1505 mm. Provenance: Deaccessioned from the collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Date: 1841 - 1842

From: Various artists :New Zealand. [Maori by a European encampment, Nelson, 1841, after a lithograph by Charles Heaphy; Kororareka Beach, Russell, 1827 or 1828, after a lithograph by Augustus Earle]

Reference: A-443-008

Description: Watercolour by an unidentified hand, possibly after Charles Heaphy's lithograph View of Nelson Haven, 1841, published 1842. View from the first ridge above the beach showing tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson (although one in the foreground appears to be house- or whare-like). The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant Moutere Hills. Five Maori stand or squat in the foreground. Trees frame the view on either side. Five ships are anchored in the harbour, which probably include the Will Watch,the Whitby and the Arrow. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878

Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084

Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-015

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach showing a prefabricated barracks to the left and the tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson, a well, a flag, and several carts. The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant snow-capped Moutere Hills and Tasman Range. The first three immigrant ships, The Will Watch, the Whitby and the Arrow are shown in the harbour with flags flying. There are clumps of trees at the water's edge, but the land is otherwise grassed or with flax and bracken. Original watercolour for the related lithograph "View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the Town of Nelson" published in 1842. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited: Treasures in Trust. Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1997, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch, 1997, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 1997, total exposure 27 weeks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 386 x 492 mm on sheet 465 x 587 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other material from the disbanded New Zealand Company in 1915 in London.

Date: 1840

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

Reference: E-216-f-115

Description: Two sailing ships (the Anna Watson and the Platina) in Auckland Harbour and a small boat with five people in the foreground. Planks of building timber, another rowboat on the foreshore and groups of tents on the higher ground to the left and on the skyline above cliffs. A red flag (the Red Ensign?) flying on a point at the top of the cliffs. The tent closest to the shore belonged to Captain Rough. Johnson did 2 drawings of this scene. The original of the other similar drawing has disappeared, but a copy made by Elizabeth Hocken is in the Hocken Library. It shows the flag being raised, cheered on by a group of onlookers. See 'Mrs Hobson's Album' (1990), p. 147-148 for further details. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 195 mm

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-015

Description: A tent and a group of four men, three Pakeha, one Maori, seated on the ground, having a picnic in a clearing in bush, hills beyond them and water below them. One of the men, seated with his back resting on a tree-trunk, is either drawing or making notes; one, possibly William Cotton, with spectacles, seated on the left is handing out food from a plate; one is reclining on the ground, the fourth, a Maori student, is seated and is being passed food The four men are likely to be students and /or teachers at St John's theological College, Purewa, Auckland. The man wearing glasses and facing the viewer may be William Charles Cotton, while the man showing sketching may be a self-portrait. The location of Potato Bay is not known, but is likely to be in Auckland, possibly near Meadowbank, where Hutton and Cotton were teaching. T. B. Hutton arrived in New Zealand in 1843 and taught at St John's College at Waimate in the Bay of Islands until 1844 when he moved to Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 220 x 280 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1847 - 1841 - 1843

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Scammell, Edward DuBoistel, active 1930s

Reference: A-090-017

Description: Captain Nagle's house on the right, in the middle distance, with other buildings to the left and huts and tents in the foreground. A flag on a hill in the middle distance, a small canoe landing on the shore to the right and a longer Maori war canoe in the water. Compare A-090-018. This view (A-090-017) shows the house in more detail, but lacks the large ship being built as shown in A-090-018. The similarity of the two views appears to be the reason that Chief Librarian Johannes Andersen attributed the work to Bambridge. However the style is not that of Bambridge The drawing is on a page that has been removed from a bound volume, with rust marks down the remains of the gutter. Other Titles - Bambridge, William Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil in Bambridge's hand. In addition there are pencil inscriptions above and below the image in the hand of the Alexander Turnbull Library's Chief Librarian, Johannes Andersen, suggesting the work is by William Bambridge, providing extra information about Nagle, the date of Bambridge's visit and the name of the donor of the work to the Library. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 238 x 205 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-002

Description: A Maori fishing camp in the foreground with two large tents, a drying rack for fish and a long canoe with two sails pulled up at a beach. A further similar canoe in the background along with a smaller canoe. Maori men, women and children busy in the foreground on the beach. Trees close to the waterfront and the cone of Rangitoto, Auckland's dormant volcanic island, in the background. Reproduced as a "Turnbull Library Print", 1977. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Heaphy. Title in ink. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on buff paper 435 x 550 mm

Date: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 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-334-070

Description: Four sketches in the Waitaki area in October 1848. Top left: 'Paretamokai' (an uncertain placename) showing a man sitting at the right in front of a tent above a valley. Top centre right: 'A Korari hoe on a razeed taia' (a Maori hoe). Top right: 'Camp at Otaitai' showing a camp site near the foot of a cliff; Bottom left 'Damn specimens. There's grub. M.Malmanche ascending ye wata & finds three wooden turnips' shows Mr Malmanche gesturing indignantly in favour of cooking turnips, rather than keeping them as specimens. Behind Malmanche is a seated Maori man with Malmanche again at the top of a ladder, raiding a whata, or food storage platform. There is a large whare alongside. Bottom right: Valley of the Waitaki Tuesday Oct 25, an extensive view of a valley and hills with a small fenced enclosure to the left, possibly a grave site. The place name Otaitai appears to be no longer in use. It is likely to be just north of the Waitaki River. Other Titles - A Korari hoe on a razeed taia. [Oct 1848] Other Titles - Camp at Otaitai Friday [October 1848] Other Titles - Damn specimens: There's grub! M. Malmanche ascends ye Wata and finds 3 wooden turnips. Waitaki Monday Oct 23? Other Titles - Valley of the Waitaki, Tuesday Oct 25 [1848] Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 22 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-051

Description: A tent in the left foreground with two men (Mantell and Alfred Wills) packing up their gear. At the entrance to the tent is a semi-circular shelter built of cabbage-tree branches and leaves, with a river and hills in the background From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on sketchbook page, 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Saxton, John Waring, 1807-1866

Reference: PUBL-0011-06-2

Description: Shows and names important features: Printing Office of the Nelson Examiner, jail, immigration barracks, survey office, church, hospital, courthouse, government offices, bank, and several private dwellings and other landmarks. Also shows surveyors at work, settlers camping, building a house and working the land. John Saxton arrived in Nelson in 1842. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - THE TOWN AND PART OF THE HARBOUR OF NELSON IN 1842, about a Year after its first foundation.; Recto - above image - Separation Point between Blind Bay and Massacre Bay / Auckland Point / Boulder Bank forming Nelson Haven; Recto - beneath image - Jail Company's Immigration Barracks / Survey Office and Temporary Church Company's Hospital Immigration Office / and Depot House of / Mr Tuckett / Chief Surveyor Court House and / Government Offices House of the late / Mr Thompson / Police Magistrate House of Mr McDonald / Banker, late Sheriff Bank Residence of the late W. C. Young Esqre / now that of the Revd. Reay; Recto - beneath image - Drawn by John Saxton Esqr / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill Manuscripts and Archives records contain information about the people mentioned on this image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 245 x 453 mm

Date: 1841

By: Wicksteed, John Tylston, 1806-1860

Reference: A-166-011

Description: Shows flat land in the foreground, Wakefield's house with flagstaff in the middle distance, and rising up the hill (modern Bowen Street area) a church spire amid trees, referred to in an accompanying letter as being the proposed site for St Paul's, although in fact this was not the site of the first St Paul's (Museum Street further down the hill), built 1844. The harbour can be seen to the left, along with the far end of Lambton Quay, a few houses and tents on Te Aro Flat and the track that became The Terrace winding up the hill Enclosed in letter from Wicksteed to Robert Few, Church Society of New Zealand, 30 Jan 1841. '...A reference to the map of Wellington and to the sketch sent herewith, will convey a tolerably correct idea of the place which I have resolved to propose to the Committee. It is the triangular piece of land (not numbered, being a public reserve) lying immediately under number 500 on the map, and above numbers 470, 371 and 472. A road or street bounds it on the north west and separates it from another public reserve, designed for a cemetery [later Bolton Street Cemetery]. In the sketch, the principal house with the flagstaff near it, is Colonel Wakefield's, and the spot on which a church spire is placed is that to which I have drawn your attention. It is almost first seen on turning the corner, as I may call it, on entering Lambton Harbour. I regret that the sketch is so slight, but it is faithful' (Ref. MS Papers 256) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 115 x 225 mm Transfers: transferred from MS Papers 256, April 1978..