Places

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-047

Description: View across the harbour to the hills opposite with a large manuka log floating in the water in the foreground Page is loose in sketchbook, probably clipped from another page of the same book Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 104 x 118 mm

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1845 - 1860

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: A-113-003

Description: Three Maori seated in the foreground at the edge of a curved river bank with the palisades and a whare or part of a pa to the right. Cabbage trees, flax and manuka trees and other taller trees on a plain. In the middle ground is a European house and outbuildings surrounded by a fence, at the foot of a prominent hill, with other hills in the background to the left. The scene bears a strong resemblance to a view of Kaiapoi, early 1850s, a watercolour in the Canterbury Museum by Charles Haubro. However, the hills in the background make a location further inland in Canterbury more likely. Norman was in the Wellington Region from 1842 to 1845. He is not known to have visited the Waikato area, a location suggested by the Auckland seller of the drawing. He is known to have visited as far north as Auckland itself. In the 1850s until his death in 1872 he was based in the South Island, in Canterbury and South Canterbury, and his undated drawing of Nelson is also in the Library's collection. One possible location for this view is Rangitumau, with the prominent hill being Mount Rangitumau (north of Masterton in the Wairarapa) and the river being either the Whangaehu or the Kopuaranga. If the scene is a Wairarapa one, it is likely to date from between 1842 to 1845. Other Titles - Rangitumau, Wairarapa? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ed Norman Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia and blue pen and ink 196 x 248 mm

Date: 1863

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

Reference: A-269-006

Description: View looking up a small stream towards a bridge, with flax, toetoe, cabbage trees and perhaps manuka, looking towards hills in the background. Brackenfield was in North Canterbury, near the Kowai River Compare an almost identical view by Georgina Bowen 'Approach to Mr Weld's house Brackenfield on the Kowai, Canty, NZ [January 1863]' (Non-atl-p-0053-013). Inscriptions: Mount recto - Brackenfield, South Island (mount now discarded). On verso, in ink, in Weld's hand: Bridge near the lodge, Brackenfield January 29 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 131 x 254 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von, 1829-1884; Lang, Rudolf, 1812-1884

Reference: B-187-015

Description: Two panoramic views, one of Lake Rotomaha and environs, highlighting the White Terraces (Te Tarata), the Ngahapu geyser, Pukura and Puai Islands, and the peaks of Kakaramea (with fumaroles), Otukapuarangi and Oruakorako. Below is a view showing Mount Tarawera on the left, Lake Rotomakariri in the forefround, and fumaroles Other Titles - Novara Exp. Geolog. Theil. I.Bd. Neu-Seeland. Nordinsel. Taf.9,Nro.V / Rotomakariri - Te aka manuka - Te Tarata - Ngahapu - Insel Pukura u. Purai - Te Mamaku - Berg Kakaramea, mit Fumarolen - Otukapuarangi - Berg Oruakorako. Nro.VI / Tarawera Berg - Fumarolen Other Titles - Rotomahana or the hot lake, seen from the north shore Other Titles - Rotomakariri or the cold lake, seen from the southwest Extended Title - Published in: Hochstetter, Ferdinand von. Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Geologischer Theil. Erster Band. Erste Abtheilung: Geologie von Neu-Seeland. Wien. Aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1864. Tafel 9. Nro.V; Nro.VI Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - 1863 [in pencil] Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, sepia-toned, sizes vary, on sheet 283 x 448 mm