Places

Date: 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-003

Description: View looking north along the lower west coast of the North Island. Names Mts Egmont and Tongariro (this is more correctly Ruapehu), which are shown in the distance. On the face of the painting, at the top, is "No. 36" (added at a later date), with the N Z Company stamp which is dated "Mar 23 1842", the date of the watercolour's arrival in London and registration by the New Zealand Company. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No 36; Recto - top centre - [Stamp] - New Zealand Company, Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 185 x 487 mm (Portfolio D: no 1) Provenance: Acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1841

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

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1839 - 1844

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

Reference: C-025-021

Description: Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory. Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.

Date: 1856

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-695

Description: A group of Maori in the foreground, dressed partly in Maori, partly in European clothing. They are seated in cleared farmland, with cattle to the right, sheep in the distance to the left. Mount Taranaki topped with snow is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt [in red brushpoint]; Verso - W. Strutt. Taranaki. 1856. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 325 x 710 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull.

Date: 1881

By: Pharazyn, Edward, 1835-1890; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-095-038

Description: John Bryce in military uniform, sawing through the leg of a recumbent Maori man. The leg is marked 'flour' and the other leg, marked 'Sugar' has already been removed. A chopping block with axe and chisel are in the foreground, a palm tree to the right. In the background is an exaggerated version of Mount Taranaki, with four military tents in a field and three men ploughing the ground beyond a fence on the right. The cartoon is a reference to the Government's treatment of the Maori passive resisters at Parihaka. Bryce was Minister of Native Affairs and of Defence in 1881 The cartoonist's initials match those of two artists one being Edward Payton; however his monogram was different and the drawing of the figures is quite amateur, so Payton is unlikely to be the artist. The other possibility is Edward Pharazyn. The style of monogram appears to be his, and he commonly signed his work with his initials The stick figures across the fence to the right probably represent the 'ploughmen of Parihaka' who continued to plough their fields in defiance of a Government ban on the activity. The Government also attempted to starve the protesters into giving up their resistance Other Titles - Divers, diverse Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - artist's initials E. P. Jr. [or ft for fecit?] at the foot of the tree; also a pencilled note in the hand of Alexander Turnbull, 'Evidently war in Taranaki - Parihaka?' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 230 x 280 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsbugh Turnbull.