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Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-026-1

Description: The left end of a four-part panorama of the Rangitata River and surrounding peaks. The river flows along in the foreground. In this section, the peaks and rivers in the background are: Black Mountain, Blackbirch Creek, Tent Mountain, River Havelock, Cloudy Peak, Dumbarton Rock, Clyde River, River Sinclair, The Lawrence. Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, page 45. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on pages glued together to make sheet, 130 x 698 mm.

Date: [April 1861]

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-025

Description: A panoramic view of the Clyde Glacier, taken from the ridge between the Agnes Stream Valley and the main Clyde Valley. Clyde Glacier is no longer a current name. The Clyde Glacier is much reduced in size since the 19th century and is now the two separate Frances and Sir Colin Campbell Glaciers. The Frances Glacier is the source of the Frances River, flowing into Clyde Stream and the Rangitata River. Possibly Haast's original for John Gully's watercolour, 'The great Clyde Glacier, real source of the River Clyde (Rangitata) 3762 ft' (Library reference number C-096-003), painted as an illustration for Haast's lecture to the Royal Geographical Society, London in 1864 Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - VI Great Clyde Glacier, real source of Rangitata. - [ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on composite sheet of paper, 130 x 490 mm.

Date: 15 March 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-021

Description: Shows a range of mountains including the peaks of Mt Forbes and Snowhorn. Also shows where the Forbes River comes out. The word `D'Archiac' is annotated in the foreground. This was at one time the name of Mt Forbes. Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, page 48. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - III Sources of Havelock; Recto - bottom right - JH [Julius Haast, ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, 125 x 710 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-026-4

Description: The right-hand end of a four-part panorama of the Rangitata River and surrounding peaks. The river flows along in the foreground of the first three but not this end. In this section, the peaks and rivers in the background are unnamed but given reference numbers 49 to 56. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on pages glued together to make sheet 129 x 581 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-026-2

Description: The second part of a four-part panorama of the Rangitata River and surrounding peaks. The river flows along in the foreground. In this section, the peaks and rivers in the background are: Mount Potts and Potts Stream. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on pages glued together to make sheet 128 x 653 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1866

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-026-3

Description: The third part of a four-part panorama of the Rangitata River and surrounding peaks. The river flows along in the foreground. In this section, the peaks and rivers in the background are not named, but there are numbered references numbers 39 to 48. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, on pages glued together to make sheet 131 x 456 mm.