Places

Date: 1876

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888; Gordon, Mona Clifton, 1899-1977

Reference: G-496

Description: An extensive hilly landscape in the Waikato near Matamata with Firth in the centre by his horse, surrounded by large numbers of Maori. A monument to Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa is on the right not far from the Wairiri waterfall on the far right. The meeting took place in 1870 The painting was reviewed in the Daily Southern Cross, 8 June 1876, p.3: The artist has faithfully depicted the interview, and the beautiful landscape amidst which it took place. The chief personages, the armed band, Thompson's monument, the distant woods of Matamata and the grand mountain chain, with the magnificent waterfall of Wairiri, and the noble peak of Te Aroha mountain in the distance, are well placed on the canvas, and when finished, promise to complete a picture interesting for its historic facts and scenic beauty'. Exhibited: Auckland Institute and Museum, 1876; Albin Martin (curator, Roger Blackley, Auckland Art Gallery), Auckland Art Gallery, Waikato Museum of Art and History, National Library of New Zealand, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 12 August 1988 to 30 April 1989. See: Blackley, Roger. "Albin Martin" (Auckland City Art Gallery, 1988) p.60 'While on his Matamata estate in Janury 1870, Firth heard ... Te Kooti Rikirangi was in the mountains opposite. Firth's "friendly natives" fled to the Waikato settlements, while his sons were sent to Cambridge. The next day, Firth met Te Kooti at Tamihana's monument, accompanied by two chiefs and an interpreter. Te Kooti told him "he was weary of fighting and that if Government would let him alone he would fight no more", but that he would never surrender.' Other Titles - Josiah Clifton Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 496 x 742 mm (sight) Provenance: Estate of Mona Clifton Gordon, granddaughter of J C Firth. On loan to Waikato Art Museum from the time of Mrs Gordon's death in the mid 1970s until 1992.

Date: 1867

By: C & J T Bray

Reference: C-069-001

Description: Time-table with pictures of a horse-drawn tram, with male passengers seated on the roof, female passengers seated inside, and a series of circular vignettes of public and commercial buildings, wharves, etc. in and around Nelson. The fares are given and the information is signed C & J. T. Bray, Lessees. Businesses featured include C. Balme, Engineer and Millwright; Australian Royal Mail Company, T. Cawthron, Agent; Commercial Hotel, Trafalgar and Hardy Streets, J. Jervis Proprietor; Moore and Conway, Builders, Hardy Street; E. F. Jones, Dining and Refreshment; Custom House Hotel; G. Fleming, Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer, Hardy Street; A. Fletcher, Photographer, Hardy Street; H. Balme, Coach Builder, Hardy Street; W. Jones, Taylor and Draper, Hardy Street; Moore and Conway, Builders, Hardy Street; H. Hounsell, General Furnishers; Rob Hounsell, Brightwater Mill; I. P. Cooke, Plumber, Glazier, Painter; J. Levick, Albion Wharf; Albion Hotel, The Port, J. N. Wilkinson, Proprietor; Miners' Arms, corner Hardy and Collingwood Streets; J. A. Packer, Turner in General; Pringle & Co, General Grocers, Waimea Street; Hodgson and Friend, Engravers and Lithographers; The Colonist, Newspaper and Advertising Office, Waimea Street; R. G. Gibbons, Government Wharf; Pier Hotel, The Port, H. Jasper, Proprietor; R. Simpson, Cooper; Hargreaves, Butcher; S. Wakeford, Iron and Brass Founder, Bridge Street; B. Franzen, Sailmaker, Tent Depot, The Port; Steamboat Tavern, Haven Road; T. B. Louisson, House and Ship Painter, Bridge Street; A. Simpson, Cooper; J. N. Toonkey [?], Steam Sawing and Planing, Hardy Street; Burnett and Miles, Monumental Yard; T. Snow, Victoria House; F. B. Josephs, Hairdressing; Victoria Hotel, Haven Road; S. Wakeford, Engineer and Millwright; W. M. Stanton, Importer of Books, Stationery, Music and Instruments; W. C. Wilkins, Ironmonger; W. Akersten, Ship Chandler; Ship Hotel, The Port; W. Brown, Photographer; Wairoa Valley Steam Saw Mill; W. Harvey, Cabinetmaker; Mrs W. V. Salter, Milliner, Dress and Mantel Maker, Hardy Street For conjectured date see letter at TL 3/1/1/2, 11 Nov. 1986 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 575 x 450 mm

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: [189-?]

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0392-1/4-F

Description: Hack yard at Longbeach Station, Canterbury, photographed circa 1890s by J Grigg, probably John Grigg, 1828?-1901. Publication note - Published in Making New Zealand (Wellington [N.Z.] : New Zealand Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1940) Vol 1, No 9, p 30 Source of descriptive information - File print, MNZ copyright register, MNZ negative register Inscriptions: From original item, bottom left: "Hack yard, Longridge - J Grigg" Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Provenance: Copy of a photograph in the Wheeler album, General Assembly Library, for the Department of Internal Affairs' publication `Making New Zealand' (1939-40).

Date: 1870 - 1890

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908

Reference: E-052-q-015

Description: Shows Mount Eden. The Cabbage Tree Swamp was on the site of present-day Eden Park. Image published as a greetings card by the Library in the 1970s The view may be of Mount Albert (Auckland), rather than Mount Eden. The image features in Scott, Dick. Old Mount Albert (1963) as showing Mount Albert Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook Provenance: Previously part of Alexander Turnbull's collection. The inside of the cover bears his bookplate and the luxurious binding is of the type he arranged.

Date: 1865

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-034

Description: Very similar to version at A-210-002. Also similar to work in Hocken sketchbook page 67: "23 Jany. The Mowhanau Stream; close to Alexander's Farm. 1865". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 232 mm.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-116-018

Description: View from the shore looking across Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake). In the foreground are a tent with a seated figure outside, three horses, a Maori and a European man. Two tall tree ferns are on the right Other Titles - Tiki Tapu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D B 1874. Also hand-written label in ink in the hand of the artist, on card attached to backing board: Tiki Tapu or the Blue Lake near Roto Kakahi. Label cut from earlier backing board Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 249 x 357 mm (sight) Provenance: A note on the back, now discarded, indicated that the work was earlier put up for auction at the International Art Centre in May 1982. Art auction records indicate that a work with the same title was sold at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 2 November 1981, lot 280 for AU $1,600.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Jessie H, active 1935-1947

Reference: B-031-004

Description: Sea to the right, with a beach, with two women and a man on horseback. Low bushes in the centre right foreground, in the centre a Maori man in a flax cloak pointing twoards the sea and in conversation with a Pakeha man; two Maori walking away in a red and a black cloak; another man, apparently aiming a slingshot; and two other Maori figures, seated on the ground. Beyond the figures is an undulating plain, probably sandhills. In the distance are several ranks of higher hills. Identification of the location suggested by the strong similarity of the line of hills in the background to those depicted in B-031-030, which Brees has titled Mana Pokerua [i.e. Mana Island and Pukerua] Other Titles - Pokarua Mana Pukerua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - POKARUA. MANA. [Conjectured title. Only the PO then the M are visible] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 343 mm

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: C-003-001

Description: Nine-part panorama, forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. The parsonage itself is shown, along with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, bush and the encompassing hills. There are cows, horses and a man using a plough pulled by two horses Extended Title - South Eastern part of Valley, looking towards Wellington. The distant hills are those lying behind Wellington. Western boundary of hills. St James Parsonage Hutt. Tararua Range in distance, north west end of valley. Hills forming eastern boundary of the valley. Inscriptions: Verso - Most sections have notes in ink as transcribed under title and additional title above Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in 9 sections with linen hinges on verso. Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil in nine sections (mounted in 3 groups of 3) 125 x 159 mm (whole panorama); 125 x 530 mm (each strip)

Date: 1883

From: Nairn, Betsey Wright, -1906 :Sketchbook

Reference: E-443-q-023

Description: Shows two scenes: in the top half 'Leaving Collingwood for Nelson', the small steamer "Lady Barkley" is being loaded with trunks, while the passengers walk on board along the gangplank behind their trunks. In the lower half 'Last ride in Nelson', two women mounted on horses, walk towards a gate in the left foreground. The foreground fence has a row of barbed wire for its top wire. On the right, faintly sketched in, is part of a house, with a garden archway alongside. Inscriptions: Recto - centre left - [First title]; Recto - bottom left - [Second title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 225 x 195 mm.

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-236-009

Description: Show a horse-drawn carriage in an open landscape with two houses against trees and low hills in the background. Probably drawn in the gold-rush era on the West Coast Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tissue paper, 160 x 219 mm (irregular) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nairn family collection, MS Papers 326..

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-236-012

Description: A coach pulled by two horses on a road with a bush background. The phrase W. Newman is possibly a reference to a coaching firm; by 1865 William Newman (father of Henry and Thomas Newman) had begun transporting provisions for goldminers at Wakamarina and Canvastown, although a West Coast location is not mentioned in DNZB vol 2, page 353. A-236-011, -012 and -013 are all on the same sheet of paper Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tissue paper, 91 x 118 mm (irregular) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nairn family collection, MS Papers 326..

Date: [January or February 1867]

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-003-2

Description: Two of the Tetley boys, (Cadwallader and either the oldest, Willy, or the youngest, Frank) watching from the Picton Wharf while one of their horses is winched onto the deck of a steamer, and the other horse waits its turn. The artist also comments 'The busy people of Picton stand on the wharf admiring with hands in pockets' of the group of men and women also standing on the wharf, waiting with boxes. The ship, as recorded on the following page of the sketchbook, is the Ahuriri Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 87 x 205 mm

Date: ca 1895

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

Reference: PA1-o-410-018

Description: Jack Adamson (right), and another unidentified man, with horses, by Ball Hutt, at the junction of the Ball and Tasman glaciers, Mackenzie district, Canterbury, circa 1895. Shows the hut as it was first built in 1891. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.4 x 20.1 cm

Date: 1881 - 1898

By: Preston, James, 1834-1898; Rolleston, William, 1831-1903

Reference: A-123-028

Description: A seaside view at sunrise, showing a horse grazing in a paddock, a man seated on a hillock in the foreground, a tent and caravan and four men with fishing gear standing outside a weatherboard shed. Two further men are fishing on the right. The artist met his death while he was fishing in Geraldine, suggesting a great love of the sport. William Rolleston took up land at the mouth of the Rangitata River where he lived for most of his public life, from the 1860s. James Preston was appointed Anglican Minister to the Geraldine district from 1872. Compare Preston's watercolour "Rangitata Huts" in Canterbury Museum's collection - black and white photo held in photo file. This shows the same hut, caravan, tent and horse, sonewhat differently disposed. Suggested date range of execution is derived from the artist's addressing the recipient as "Hon.ble", suggesting William Rolleston was by then a Minister of the Crown, and by the artist's own date of death in 1898. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - To Honourable W. Rolleston, Mrs Rolleston & Rolleston family. A very happy and prosperous new year to you all. J. Preston Inscriptions: Verso - inscription from the artist to the recipient, wishing the family a happy new year. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on wove paper 142 x 193 mm Provenance: Rolleston family, Canterbury Transfers: Rolleston family papers, MS Papers-0446-147, transferred to Drawings & Prints, October 1994..

Date: 1890 - 1892

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: A-169-031

Description: Shows figures on three horses dismounting at hut in centre left background. Hut appears to be of wood, with wooden chimney, and iron roof. A cart approaches in right distance. The title begins with 'and reach the hut' so is presumably a continuation of information in a diary or on another picture. Dated around 1890 as this is assumed to be the exterior of Mrs Birley's establishment shown in A-169-032. She is listed in Wises as a hotel-keeper in Queenstown during the 1880s, and then at Glenorchy in 1890-91. In 1892, J.K. Birley is listed as the hotel-keeper of Mt Earnslaw Hotel, Glenorchy, which may be a grander establishment than this one! Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 132 x 182 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A95-145. - Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1875 - 1879

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: A-180-026

Description: A horse working a treadmill with three men standing on the mill alongside a haystack. The mill appears to be grinding wheat. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Another horse is grazing in a field to the right Dating: The Lysaght family moved to South Taranaki in 1875; the note about the acquisition of the treadmill is likely to have been made by a later owner, some years after the drawing was done Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in pencil. Signed lower right: M.G.C.L. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil 176 x 253 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Moore Family Papers.

Date: 1864 - 1866

By: Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: A-236-014

Description: A coach pulled by four horses with passengers on top, pulled up outside a small building called the Newton Hotel. Another untethered horse is on the road behind the coach. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on tissue paper, 268 x 206 mm (irregular) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Nairn family collection, MS Papers 326..

Date: 1865

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-001

Description: Shows the back of a man standing in centre foreground with a knapsack slung over his shoulder; he looks at a scene of a log-strewn West Coast beach, a frisking dog, a man kneeling in the middle distance with two pack horses. There are foothills at left, and snowy alps in the centre distance. At right two yachts sail on a choppy sea. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 340 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).