Places

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-027

Description: View of Grafton Gully with tall trees growing to the level of an iron footbridge. Two women are crossing the bridge, both with parasols. In the background a spire can be seen, as well as part of the Harbour and North Head. There is a separate small drawing of the spire in pencil in the top left corner with (mostly illegible) comment about the dimensions and structure of the bridge, including its price (£1300) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1882 - 1886

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-090-019

Description: View from the home of Chief Judge, Sir William Martin, at Taurarua, (Judges Bay) Auckland, loking towards St Stephen's Chapel and the graveyard, with the Waitemata Harbour and the beach at Judge's Bay to the left. Formerly attributed to William Bambridge on stylistic grounds and dated between 1841 and 1849. (Bambridge's Diary for 1846-1848, p. 92 (Acc. no 8600) describes how he sketched Taurarua Church and his acquaintance with Judge William Martin). However a number of factors suggest a much later dating of the early to mid 1880s. The trees surrounding the site are quite mature, showing at least 25 years growth. Earlier sketches show much younger, smaller trees, or no trees e.g. Backhouse's 'View from Brighton, Parnell, Auckland, 1871' (E-400-f-009) and a watercolour by John Kinder in Auckland City Art Gallery. More conclusively, the large obelisk gravestone near the top of the hill, (the Hay family gravestone) was not erected until the early 1880s, nor was the cruciform gravestone (Sister Cecil's) to its left. (Information from Robert Phillips, Auckland, 7 October 2001). The second St Stephen's Chapel is shown (as a cruciform wooden church with bell tower). The previous rectangular chapel, built in 1843 (of scoria and without a bell-tower), collapsed in a storm in 1847 and the second church was not constructed until 1857. Other Titles - Judges Bay Inscriptions: Recto - on a separate strip of paper glued down the left side of the image: title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on cream laid paper, 113 x 159 mm Provenance: Possibly part of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection.

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-010

Description: The chapel at Karori Cemetery with graves to the right and on a hill behind it Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Jany 21/95 Karori cemetery Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 225 mm (page size)

Date: [ca 1898]

From: McIntosh album 5

Reference: PA1-o-289-439

Description: St Alban's Anglican Church, Pauatahanui, Porirua, Wellington region. The foreground includes the cemetery, each grave picket fenced. Probably photographed by George William Barltrop in about 1898. Source of descriptive information - Notes from file print heading, and album page Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Pahautanui Architect Frederick de Jersey Clere (1856-1952) Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 15.1 x 10.5 cm, on album page

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: A-090-013

Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm

Date: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-13

Description: View of Waitangi, Chatham Island, looking across the Nairn River. In the foreground is the Ngati Mutunga urupa (cemetery) enclosed by wakawaka fence. Behind this is the pa wool shed, and at left, the long sleeping houses. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). The urupa was destroyed by a tidal wave, and the reamins of the interred were moved to the urupa on the hill above Waitangi Hospital. (Information from George Hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: [187-?]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/1-000053-G

Description: Photograph of a cemetery situated on a hill overlooking a body of water and distant hills, probably the main General Cemetery section of Heads Road Cemetery in Whanganui [or Wanganui] township. The view appears to be taken from a small hill near the Guyton Street entrance. A dirt road is in the foreground, and two blurred figures standing near a fenced grave. The image was possibly taken circa 1870s by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui. This photograph is identified in Library negative register as Aramoho Cemetery but a Whanganui researcher in 2016 stated that there was no Aramoho Cemetery until 1914-1915. The image may have been taken later than 1870s, by Frank James Denton who took over Harding's studio. Alternatively, this image may show the Old Wanganui Cemetery or the cemetery at Aramoho Marae in Whanganui, now known as Te Ao Hou Marae. Further information from another researcher in 2020 confirmed the location as Heads Road Cemetery. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative; and information from researchers. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches Processing information: This record was updated in 2016 and 2020 with information from researchers concerning the name and location of the cemetery depicted..

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-002-1

Description: A woman sitting disconsolately on the ground outside the fenced grave of her husband, Rawiri. Her hair is loose and she is gazing downwards. The grave has a post and rail fence on all sides and an upright canoe buried by its prow outside the fence Dated from Strutt's watercolour 'Rawiri Wairua's grave & the spot where he fell, 1855' (E-453-f-002-1) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 235 x 205 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-111

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with low fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery in the centre. A road runs past the cemetery towards Government House in the middle distance. Several other houses can also be seen. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-041. The view is attributed to Edward Ashworth by Janet Paul in Mrs Hobson's album (Auckland, 1990) p. 149. However there are strong stylistic similarities to the work of Mitford, and it seems more likely that he painted two views from similar spots for Mrs Hobson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 301 mm

Date: [ca 1864]

From: Greer family: Photographs relating to the New Zealand Wars

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903

Reference: PAColl-7806-3

Description: The cemetery at Te Papa, Tauranga, taken ca 1864 by John Kinder (1819-1903). Inscriptions: Mount verso - beneath image - Cemetery, Tauranga Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 15.4 x 22.5 cm mounted on detached album leaf

Date: 1870

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925

Reference: A-389-005

Description: A cemetery on a grassy hill in the left foreground, bush on the lower slopes, part of the harbour and the houses of Auckland in the distance, with the peak of Rangitoto in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 270 mm.

Date: 1864

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: A-433-002

Description: The top image shows a view of the graves of Lieut-Col. Booth and officers and men of the 43rd Regt, killed at Tauranga. Mount Maunganui in background, with ships Esk, Harrier and Jason in harbour. Based on a drawing by E A Williams. The lower images shows British troops in the foreground behind trees, and in a trench leading up towards a hilltop pa, where a British flag can be seen flying. The smoke of gunfire can be seen from several points around the pa. Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on page 398 x 274 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2010.

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-027

Description: View across Auckland and harbour from cemetery, looking down on Grafton Gully and Mechanics Bay. St Barnabas Church in centre middle ground, and possibly Parnell Orphanage at far right foreground (Cf. view by J O Hamley E-047-q-023) Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 315 x 480 mm

Date: 1896

Reference: 1/2-003723-F

Description: Karori Cemetery with chapel, 1896. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "Karori Cemetery Chapel. Built in 1891 as a shelter by the Wellington City Council. Architect - George Wiltshire, city surveyor. 1846-1905. Closed in early 1892 and converted into a chapel. (NB possibly not correct. See WCC Building Index). Note on back of file print reads "Karori Cemetery, 1896. The Tustin plot (1892) is on the left; Major Atkinson's (Sir Harry) - cross on the right of the chapel; George Bell's cowshed at the centre rear, and Dryden's corner off the picture to the left." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: 1890

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm); Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952

Reference: Plans-80-0992

Description: An elevation of Rangiatea Maori Church at Otaki, shown with external buttressing, and with its fence, the low hill and the urupa (graveyard) beyond it. The building burned down in 1995. Clere did strengthening work on the church in the early 1890s, hence this group of drawings Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - stamp showing firm's name, date & signatures; Recto - bottom left - title Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink on wove paper, 343 x 510 mm

Date: 1864

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096098-G

Description: Symonds Street Cemetery, showing Mt Eden in the background, photographed in 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. Other Titles - From cemetery, Auckland, looking up. 1863 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 30 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: [1880s]

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-334

Description: According to the inscription inside the front cover (by an unidentified person), the date is firmly established as 1884, however the album has a number of photographs of the Tarawera area, both before and after the volcanic eruption in 1886. These include views of the White Terraces, one of which has a group of Maori cooking food in the hot pools; a carved house at Te Wairoa, showing interior and exterior before the eruption, and the exterior afterwards; a group of Maori at Te Ariki (one of the places most devastated in the eruption with the loss of many lives. This image has the inscription `Natives of te Ariki first to be killed by eruption'); views of Mount Tarawera covered in mud and ash; and the Old Mill, destroyed in the eruption. Many of the images have the signature initials J.M. (Josiah Martin), and a few have the initials F.A.C (Frank Arnold Coxhead) who may have taken them, but which may just have been printed by him. The last few views are in Tasmania, including Burnie - Emu Bay, and the Guide Falls, near Burnie. Inscriptions: Album page - `Ex libris Brent Gration-Maxfield. 1967'; Album page - `New Zealand. 1884. An early series of 46 4to sepia photographs of New Zealand views. The date, 1884, is firmly established by the letter opposite [attached to album page. Unsigned and undated], which refers to both the album and G.A. Sala's visit in 1884 (see the D.N.B.) to New Zealand to gather information for his book "The land of the golden fleece" which was published in 1885' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, leather corners and spine; 25.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1899

By: Burgess, William Frederick, 1856-1920

Reference: A-089-011

Description: An extensive view of a pastoral run with distant hills, a plain with the homestead and its surrounding trees (the detail very tiny) in the middle ground and a hill in the left foreground with a fenced cemetery. A road runs along the base of the nearby hill towards the homestead. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature; Verso - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 234 x 345 mm

Date: 1864

Reference: A-367-027

Description: Shows in the foreground a headstone and grave mound, with wild flowers growing around it, and enclosed by a framework of metal pipe. The view beyond is to more graves, with the land sloping down to the harbour and hills beyond. Other Titles - Reynold's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - EMD with RR's dear love. Copy by RR; Verso - centre - Sacred / to the memory / of/ William Foster Reynolds / of Carshalton, Surrey, England / Died at Nelson, June 25 1864 / aged 35. / "It is the Lord, let Him do what seemeth Him good". / "Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 256 x 170 mm.