Places

Date: 1856

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-004

Description: View looking across to the south-west of Evan's Bay with Cook Strait beyond, a schooner on the water and bush, including a rata, cabbage trees, a tree-fern and flax in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 143 x 229 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1895

By: Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s

Reference: E-341-f

Description: Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts. Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm

Date: 1860 - 1879

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: G-200

Description: Shows road cut into steep hillside, with a Maori man and woman walking towards the viewer. There is a rata in flower on the left and tree-ferns to the right of the road. The surrounding hills are heavily bush-clad and a prominent hill in the background may be Mt Kaukau Samuel Woodward was a dairy farmer, who lived in Wadestown from 1849. His farm extended from the Kaiwharawhara Stream to the Town Belt and across from Norwich Street to Lytton Street in central Wadestown. By 1874, he owned 69 acres. Rose Street, Wadestown, was named after his wife. Other Titles - Wadestown, Wellington Inscriptions: Verso - On contemporary label: Title and J C Hoyte Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 120 x 170 mm (sight) Provenance: Webb's auction, Auckland, 1986, purchased by John Crowder, Christchurch.

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-004

Description: The trunk of a kahikitea with a rata vine climbing up it, to the right, and a tall tree fern emerging from lower bush to the left. Hawkeshead was Swainson's own house and land Note on back as to the fate of the trees Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Inscriptions: On Mount: Great Black Fern & White Pine, Hawkshead, N.Z. d. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 7.5 x 5.3 ins

Date: 1854

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-002

Description: Shows a rata tree with epiphytes, beside a path which goes past on the left. There is a tree fern in the right background. The original sketch for this appears to be the work at A-029-031. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 465 x 333 mm. (sight)

Date: 1857

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-010

Description: Three settlers felling timber. Two are working with axes at the trunk of a rata, centre right, while a third is resting in the left foreground. There are large tree-ferns and several nikau in the clearing beyond the men, with tree trunks piled up and native bush around the edges of the view. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the background Compare a similar view in monotone wash, rectangular shape, at E-453-f-013-1 Other Titles - Bush felling Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 200 x 280 mm

Date: 1866 - 1868

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: C-126-013

Description: Shows bullock dray in right foreground, between tall trees especially on left side of track. There are close hills in the background. Artist and date ascertained from very similar works held in Rex Nan Kivell Collection (Vol. III, page 53, item 3842-43). ATL has file prints of these in Drawings & Prints. Nairn, who arrived in Taranaki in 1841, was on the move in the 1860s, probably as a goldminer, since he drew scenes in the Otago gold fields in 1863 and had settled in Collingwood by the 1880s and probably before then. This is likely therefore to be a South Island scene, with the balance of probability being that is it the Collingwood area, possibly the road to Collingwood from Nelson. Other Titles - Road to Collingwood? Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 730 x 500 mm.

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-189-009

Description: A rata twining around a large pukatea tree on Alzdorf's farm in the Hutt Valley Other Titles - Alzdorf's Pukatea Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 8.2 x 4.8 ins

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-006

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with a huge rata tree in the middle distance, two men standing at its base, and a triangular raupo hut to its right Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.2 x 3.7 ins

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-070

Description: Shows a panorama of mountains around a glacier. Pencilled inscriptions on the drawing show positions of growth of black birch, rata, totara, rimu, fuchsia, koromiko, tree ferns. Other Titles - One mile ... Franz Josef Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 165 x 60 mm

Date: 1877 - 1875

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40

Description: View looking east into the gorge, with the Otira River, the road to the left, with four horses pulling a Cobb & Co coach, alone horseman further up the road. Rata forests on both sides and mountains in the background. According to the accompanying text, the view is taken just below the well-known zig-zag and just before the house of accommodation where the coach changes horses. The Library holds the watercolour on which this chromolithograph was based at B-004-022, with title Otira Gorge, West Coast Road, from Mount Alexander, Dec 1874. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 252 x 355 mm

Date: 1 August 1894

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/1-011003-G

Description: Group of children and adults outside Rata School on Arbor Day, 1 August 1894. Taken by Edward George Child. Inscriptions: Arbour Day at Rata School, 1st August 1894. E G Child Photo Rata Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1856

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Pearse, Beatrice, -1985?

Reference: B-084-014

Description: Shows cloaked Maori figures walking on a track carved out beside a stream. In the centre foreground is a large tree fern, and rata grows from the tall tree at the right, with epiphytes. Other Titles - Bush walk, Taita Gorge. Wainuiomata Previously entitled: Bush walk, Taita Gorge Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.B. / 1856 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 342 x 252 mm

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-003

Description: Two men standing at the knarled trunk of a huge rata in the foreground, with other men in the background near another tall tree, a white pine or kahikitea The reference to Pakurati is probably to Pakuratahi, Upper Hutt, where Swainson spent some time and made drawings Inscriptions: Verso - Gigantic trunk of white pine & rata Pakurati; Recto - beneath image - Rata. 12 Jan 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 6.8 x 4.4. ins

Date: 27 November [1848?]

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-006

Description: The remains of a dead tree, probably a rata, with a trunk divided from the base and united about half-way up. Epiphytic growths on the supporting trunk. In the background are Evans Bay, the Miramar Peninsula and the Eastbourne hills and Orongorongo hills. The view is either from high on Mount Victoria or, more probably, from Wadestown or Tinakori Hill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm

Date: 1887

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-226-025

Description: A branch of red rata in flower and leaf Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 188 x 132 mm Provenance: provenance: Swainson family

Date: between 1892-1910

From: Child, Edward George, 1860-1949 :Photographs of the Ohingaiti district

Reference: 1/2-044951-G

Description: Child's house (Edward George Child?) at Hau Hau, Bell Mill, Rata, Rangitikei, photographed by Edward George Child between 1892-1910. Shows a single storied, wooden dwelling, with a chimney. A row of sunflowers is growing in front and two young children are alongside. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1849

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-003

Description: Wellington Harbour in the background, with Somes Island. In the foreground, a large rata tree, with epiphytes, several tree-ferns and other trees. The view is probably taken from old Karori Road, so from Kelburn, Northland or lower Karori Reproduced in 1976 as a "Turnbull Library Print" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 210 mm

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Giles, John West, 1801-1870

Reference: PUBL-0014-06

Description: A clearing in New Zealand bush, showing tall trees and rata vines in the background, several tree ferns, ferns and fungus underfoot, with supplejack widespread Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 339 x 243 mm.

Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: B-159-024

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman with a child on the woman's back, walking beside their packhorse on a road at the left. The packhorse is laden with red saddlebags. The road continues into the foreground and curves away again to the right, disappearing into a bushcovered hilly area. The couple are passing a central rata tree in flower, and there are bushcovered hills in the distance. In the foreground in front of the rata is a pool or section of a river. Location suggested to be the Hutt Valley, but may be one of the gorges off the western side of the harbour, possibly near the old Porirua Road. Letter of authentication dated 24 August 1983 on backing board. Sometimes known as "Maori travellers ..." Other Titles - Maori travellers with packs and horse, pack horse, Hutt Valley [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 262 mm. Provenance: Formerly owned by the artist's great granddaughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock. Auctioned at McArthur & Company Auckland in October 1983 (lot 28)