Places

Date: 1853

Reference: A-034-012

Description: Shows Hutt River estuary with Rimutaka Range in background and the dense forest of the original Petone landscape Reproduced as one of the "Turnbull Library Prints" in 1972. The forest shown is likely to be predominantly kahikitea trees Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

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

Reference: A-269-009

Description: A panoramic view over the Hurunui River with a mountain range in the background. Possibly an unfinished work. 'Our new run' was Stonyhurst, Scargill, Hurunui, established by Charles Clifford, Weld's cousin and business partner, in 1851. Weld returned to New Zealand in December 1852 and would have first visited Stonyhurst about then. Other Titles - Hurunui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 275 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1853

By: Johnson, John Grant, 1824-1873

Reference: A-340-035

Description: Shows a view over the inner harbour looking eastwards towards the heads of the harbour. Accompanied by photocopy of the backing board recto, showing labels and John Leech Gallery sticker. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - J Grant Johnson, Sept. 1853. [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash on yellow paper, 180 x 225 mm.

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-030

Description: Shows a view looking south east at Lyttelton Harbour, with the houses of Lyttelton in the foreground, Quail Island and the hills above Teddington in the distance. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title from inscription Inscriptions: Verso - "The view is from the verandah of our little house"; "cottage and children are in "; Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash 226 x 330 mm

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: 1853

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

Reference: E-455-f-065

Description: Physical Description: 2 pencil sketches, 132 x 257 mm and 132 x 272 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-041

Description: A single-storied house with verandah and verandah posts across its front, set at the base of bush-clad hills on rising land. There is another structure, either a shed or dog-kennel at a lower point to the left For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. The house, called Glencarrig by Aylmer, still stands in Percy Street, Akaroa. It was much altered in the later nineteenth century Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-045

Description: Interior of Rangiatea church, Otaki, looking from near the entrance towards the chancel windows. A Maori woman and a child, both dressed in blankets, are standing just inside the door contemplating the church. Title and date inscribed in pencil on mount. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Small detail of rafter pattern from church. Also inscribed: "40 high/36 wide/80 long" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing mounted on paper ; pencil and wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm on mount 204 x 277 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: B-064-021

Description: A panoramic view with the Holy Trinity Church (built 1853 and pulled down in 1854) standing alone behind the main cluster of buildings in Lyttelton township. Quail Island is on the far right in the harbour. The entrance to the harbour is not visible For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date from pencil inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 505 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-048-046

Description: View looking down onto Lake Rotorua, with Mokoia in the distance. The Ohinemutu peninsula is on the right with steam rising from amongst the Maori whare. In the foreground is a whare on the left, a palisade and several Maori figures. Probably copied from a drawing by John Johnson or a copy of that drawing by Cuthbert Clarke. See Cuthbert Clarke;s 'Ohinemotu. From an outline by Dr Johnson [1849]' a conte drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 19954, folio 29, no. 31) of which the Turnbull holds a photograph. The same image was reproduced as a wood engraving in Sir George Grey's 'Polynesian Mythology' (London, 1855). Title from inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see A-048-027..

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-031

Description: View of Lyttelton harbour, looking towards Quail Island and Governor's Bay from Lyttelton township. There are several houses and a gully in the foreground and ships in the harbour. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date from pencil inscription; Verso - "View from own window" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-004-005

Description: Shows view from harbour towards Point Britomart; identifies Colonial Hospital, Scotch Church, St Paul's Church, Barracks, Wesleyan Chapel, St Matthew's School, R.C. Church; also shows Partington's Windmill Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 164 x 286 mm on sheet 200 x 320 mm Transfers: Former frontispiece to: Swainson W. Auckland, the capital of New Zealand... London, 1853 (held at 919.31; this copy acc. 11,276). Frontispiece removed and transferred to Drawings and Prints Collection for conservation reasons..

Date: 1853

Reference: A-034-006

Description: A view of a bend in the Ruamahanga River, with tree stumps in the foreground, extensive bush, including flax and cabbage trees to the left and cliffs in the background. On the opposite bank is a whare and fenced area indicating a Maori kainga Reproduced in New Zealand's Heritage, part 41, p. 1131. Other Titles - Ahiaruhe Inscriptions: Recto - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 249 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: PUBL-0033-1853-0479

Description: A Maori horse-race with many participants and spectators on the Ruamahanga Plain. Based on a watercolour by John Pearse "Races held in the Wairarapa "Waidrop" Plains in 1852" in his sketchbook, E-455-f-070. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 111 x 210 mm

Date: [ca 1852?]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: B-043-023

Description: Landscape sketch by Charles Heaphy circa 1852. Shows view of paddlers on five waka, four with sails, approaching shore in a curved bay of a harbour. In the middle distance is a small cliffed island, and in the background are hills, one with a distinctive blunted cone. Likely to be a view from Oahuru Bay towards Motupohukuo Island (Turkey Island), Coromandel Peninsula, with Motutere / Castle Rock in the background. Compare with engraving with same title in: Hochstetter, F. von. "New Zealand" (1867) page 96. (Photograph in Photo file, negative 308481/2) Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash 300 x 260 mm Processing information: Previously titled as "[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :[Castle Rock and Coromandel Harbour. 1852?]". The record was updated on advice from researchers on 31 May 2023.

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-029

Description: Shows a view looking west over the houses in Lyttelton, with a small section of the harbour shown at the left. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title and date from inscription on verso Inscriptions: Verso - Identifies "the house the back of which is prominent in the sepia sketch [A-048-030] - where our children are now - ours is about 10 yards higher up"; also "Mr Longden's house which we have taken", and several other locations; Verso - date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 227 x 364 mm

Date: 1853

From: Pharazyn, Edward de C 1810-1879? :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-293-q-005

Description: A rocky coastline, a single man in the distance and Cape Turnagain in the background. Inscriptions: Opposite page: title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions 142 x 231 mm

Date: 1853

Reference: A-090-005

Description: Looking down onto a small cottage with surrounding garden. A fenced cleared paddock is behind Other: Major J Y Lloyd's house was at Omata, on the outskirts of New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on buff-coloured paper, 76 x 126 mm

Date: 1853

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

Reference: E-455-f-066

Description: E-455-f-066-1 = 'Commencement of the Hutt Valley, N. Z. Part of the Wood Bridge to the left'. Shows tree stumps in the foreground, the first Hutt Bridge on the left and a row of houses and fences, with a bush-clad hill beyond. The view is in central Lower Hutt. E-455-f-066-2 = 'Hutt Valley continued. River Hutt and Roman Catholic Church' showing a scene close to the upper view in central Lower Hutt, with the bush-clad Western Hills behind and a clear view of the Roman Catholic Chapel (later St Peter and St Paul's Church) with its bell-tower and a large tree to the left. The river is in the foreground 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on the previous page of the sketchbook Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: 2 watercolours, 170 x 250 mm each

Date: 1847 - 1853

From: Pharazyn, Edward de C 1810-1879? :[Sketchbook]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-293-q-001

Description: A series of drawings: "Scotch Jock's" is a thatched-roof cottage with a chimney and a lean-to set amongst bush with 2 men seated on a rock outside, copied from an 1849 drawing by William Swainson; "Buck's store" is a tiny wooden building set amongst bush, with bags of goods and three men outside, copied from William Swainson's "Buck's Portable Store while in Stokes Vally in Oct 1847" (neg. 119176 1/2, privately-owned); a third sketch of a man reclining on a rock, untitled; a fourth and fifth of ngaio trees, both titled "ngaio". Scotch Jock was John Nicol; Buck was George Green Buck. Te Paripari was a settlement above the shore between Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay. It was not at Otaki, as described in the title of this drawing, but on the way to Otaki. John Nichol had a wayside inn at Paripari in the 1840s Other Titles - Te Paripari Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions 142 x 231 mm