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Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1844-1865

From: McArthurs Auction :Photographs of early drawings and paintings of Taranaki, and photographs of Hawke's Bay, Greymouth and others

By: Brandard, Edward Paxman, 1819-1898; Mariboe, Charles Ambrose, 1847-1926

Reference: PAColl-1951-1

Description: Collection comprises: photographs of a sketch of Mr Spain investigating land claims at New Plymouth in 1844, an engraving of Waiwhakaiho Bridge with Mount Taranaki in the background, a house amongst tree stumps on recently cleared land (possibly in the Hawke's Bay area, taken by Charles Mariboe), a sketch of landing troops at Taranaki with Maori in the foreground 1861 done by Edward Brandard, Onukukaitara Block House from Camp Waitara 1865, sketch of the residence of G Webster in New Plymouth ca 1840s; and a photograph of a gathering of Maori and Pakeha outside a marae possibly for a land meeting. Also four postcards of assemblages: Officers of the 65th Regiment; Naval and Military Officers who served in New Zealand land wars (two items) ; Officers and others who were killed during the New Zealand land wars. Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 1 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 b&w copy photographic print(s).

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1846 - 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-054

Description: The right side of a two-part panorama with A-292-052. This section of the image shows the Paekakariki Hill Road winding down to Paekakariki and the Kapiti Coast. The left section (A-292-052) shows a soldier reclining on Paekakariki Hill, beside the road, looking north up the Kapiti Coast with Mt Taranaki appearing above the horizon on the left. The soldier is smoking a pipe and has a bundle on his back. A-292-055, [Map of Waikanae Pa, 1847?] is on the verso of A-292-054 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 239 x 153 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-062

Description: Part of a fence in the left foreground with a view across fern, bush and cleared and cultivated land towards Mount Taranaki and its foothills. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title & date in ink. Also, where appropriate, pencil notes indicating fern, cultivated, wood and 2000 to indicate the height of one hill in feet. The no. 51 is on the top right of the page, and 'Obs [i.e. observations?] seen at Kaiehihi' [?] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 145 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-037-2

Description: View of Mount Taranaki from the north, seen from a beach Tahua is the Maori word for sandhill Other Titles - Tahua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 98 x 220 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-037-1

Description: Mount Egmont in the background viewed from its southern aspect. A small Maori kainga (Umuroa) is just visible on top of a nearby hill. Umuroa does not appear to be in current use in Taranaki as a place name Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in ink. Also an inscription in pencil, partly legible as 'Puketo a hini. High wind, hot sun, Jan 23rd 10 a.m.' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 163 x 242 mm

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: 1847 - 1860

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

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-038

Description: Shows Pukaka pa on Marsland hill, Mt Egmont, St Mary's Church and Huatoki stream (identified and dated by M. Alington, 26/5/81). Title from verso Crawford visited Taranaki in 1847, but may have visited later as well Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1845

From: Mathew, Felton 1808-1847 :[Scrapbook. ca.1845].

Reference: E-389-q-016

Description: Shows a symmetrical, slightly stylised, elevation from the sea of Mount Taranaki (Egmont), with its lower slopes bush-clad. In the left distance is the silhouette of a range of hills, possibly peaking in Pouakai, with Patuha in the extreme left distance. If these are correctly identified, the view is from the South-west. Note that original sketch was made on 2 February 1845. Other Titles - 2 February 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mount Egmont - West Coast - Northern Island, New Zealand - Volcanic Mountain upwards of / 9000 feet - covered with perpetual snow - From a Sketch taken from the deck of H.M. Brig "Victoria" / on Sunday the 2nd. Feby. 1845. - Summit of the Peak distant about 25 miles - the vessel about 3 miles / from the shore - Felton Mathew / 4 Oct. 1845. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 240 x 288 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist / Inventory available..

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-229-042

Description: Bridge over small stream in the foreground, a fenced in house with a tall gable and an outbuilding, with several trees in its garden in the middle ground, Mt Taranaki in the background See Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia by J. C. Crawford, London, 1880, p. 86, where Crawford mentions visiting "the parsonage near the Waiwakaio" in the summer of 1847. The parsonage for St Mary's was at Te Henui, some two miles away from the church. It had half an acre of land with it. Its first occupant was William Bolland, who died on 29 May 1847, presumably shortly after Crawford's visit. Inscriptions: Verso - title See related final watercolour at A-229-001 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland, by descent from the artist.

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Wicksteed, Emma Ancilla, 1811?-1869

Reference: C-079-034

Description: Shows site of former Maori pa, the King's Arms Inn, Marsland Hill, Mount Egmont, the Chapel, Club House and settler's houses. Reproduction of the centre portion of plate X of Wakefield, E J., Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand, 1845, by courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Nos 649, 676 and 677 of a limited edition of 700 copies, issued as a calendar, with text-sheet, for private distribution. Same as C-079-034-a Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 240 x 494 mm on sheet 396 x 600 mm

Date: 1846 - 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-052

Description: Shows a soldier reclining on Paekakariki Hill, looking north up the Kapiti Coast with Mt Taranaki appearing above the horizon on the left. The soldier is smoking a pipe and has a bundle on his back. The picture is the left side of a two-part panorama with A-292-054 Formerly part of a sketchbook, this drawing forms the left side of a two part work. The right side is located at A-292-054, with the title North Coast Cook Strait N. Z. from the Horokiwi Ridge. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 239 x 153 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1840 - 1843

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Day & Haghe (Firm)

Reference: B-187-010

Description: Waimate Pa on a high bluff above the water's edge, with palisades, houses and pataka, seen from the south bank of the Patea River. Mount Taranaki (Egmont) rises in the background to the right. Ferns, tree-ferns and a cabbage tree also to the right in the foreground Another copy at PUBL-0007-131; note it is attributed to Charles Heaphy Other Titles - Taranaki Extended Title - In "Travels in New Zealand", by Ernest Dieffenbach. London, John Murray, 1843. Volume 1, opposite page 131. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 126 x 194 mm (sight)

Date: 1849 - 1850

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; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-143-025

Description: Two views on one page. The upper view is a small lithograph of the farm of William Swainson at Lower Hutt, lithographed from a drawing by him, by his son G F Swainson. The lower view, at right-angles to the page, looks up the Waiwakaiho River and its suspension bridge over rolling country towards Mount Taranaki. It is the work of J J Merrett Other Titles - Suspension Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing and of lithograph

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-002

Description: View of New Plymouth and Egmont from the sea. Shows a rowboat on the sea in the foreground, and a church and two houses on the shore. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-014

Description: Shows wrecked ship at the mouth of the river, tent with flag flying, surrounded by barrels, two anchors and a number of Maori salvaging the contents of the wreck Other Titles - Wangaehu River, with Mount Taranaki in the distance. Whangaehu River Extended Title - From: Brees, S C. Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) plate 4, no 9 In his "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand" p.9 Brees notes "The River Wangaehu is to the south of Wanganui. The wreck shown in the View occurred while the author was travelling the beach, the master having mistaken this for the latter river". So the wreck would have occured between 1842 and 1845. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 85 x 150 mm

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-001

Description: Bridge over small stream in the foreground, a fenced in house with a tall gable and an outbuilding, with several trees in its garden in the middle ground, Mt Taranaki in the background See Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia by J. C. Crawford, London, 1880, p. 86, where Crawford mentions visiting "the parsonage near the Waiwakaio" in the summer of 1847. The parsonage for St Mary's was at Te Henui, some two miles away from the church. It had half an acre of land with it. Its first occupant was William Bolland, who died on 29 May 1847, presumably shortly after Crawford's visit. Inscriptions: Verso - title See related preliminary drawing at A-229-042 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland, by descent from the artist.

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-040

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Compare with A-457-008-7 (Cottage of a small farmer ...), dated 1860 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm