Places

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-010

Description: The township of Halcombe (named after the artist's husband, A. W. F. Halcombe) with houses on a sloping hill above a road, bush cleared back in the background and the Tararua Range in the distance. Lithograph from: The Feilding Settlement, Manchester block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph: Halcombe ESH 1878 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - ESH 1878. Halcombe. [inscribed in reverse. The artist has neglected to reverse them on the lithographic stone to allow them to print out correctly] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 116 x 203 mm

Date: 1850

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-027

Description: A couple standing on a low river bank in the foreground, beside a felled tree-trunk. Native bush and a higher river bank round a curve in the river to the left. Across the river are two small Maori whare at the water's edge. Title on back in same handwriting as A-188-028 and A-188-023 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 184 x 230 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-188-054

Description: Distant view of Westoe homestead, the house of William Fox. It is seen on a plain from a low rise with native trees. There is a large patch of bush close to the homestead Inscriptions: Verso - Title in Edith Halcombe's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 174 x 271 mm

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-007

Description: View across an extensive cleared area, with dense native forest in the background. Cabbage trees to the left, and a train is about to round a corner on the tracks to the right. Several houses in the distance. Lithograph from The Feilding settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu, New Zealand, by A. W. F. Halcombe (1878) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 109 x 195 mm

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-004

Description: Three tents amidst bush, with tall tree ferns and a nikau. Cooking arrangements in front of one tent and a surveyor carrying a billy is on the left, walking along a felled tree-trunk. The scene is in Manawatu, near Halcombe or Feilding Lithograph from : The Feilding Settlement, Manchester Block, Manawatu, New Zealand. By A W F Halcombe Note on lithograph: ESH 1878 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 109 x 91 mm

Date: 1878

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-009

Description: Part of a garden in the foreground with young trees and a fence and gate. A cluster of shops and houses nearby, with other houses in the distance on a low hill amidst cleared bush Note on lithograph: Halbombe from Mr Skiswill's garden Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 109 x 195 mm

Date: 1880 - 1899

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: B-061-031

Description: View towards a marae with wharenui, a pataka, several whare, low fences and trees, with the Tararua Range in the background Unfinished pencil sketch on verso Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 503 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-190-020

Description: A hut in a clearing with the river in the background, trees nearby Title and date from back: probably added at later date possibly by Edith Swainson Artist's monogram matches that of William Swainson; however the style is not typical of his work. He did not commonly use ink and wash; nor is he known to have visited Manawatu, where his daughter Edith lived. He may have redrawn or drawn over and initialled a drawing of hers. There are a number of drawings of areas not visited by William Swainson, but drawn by his offspring, which he has initialled Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia watercolour, 134 x 187 mm