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Date: 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-189-012

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The long low house to the right of the church would have been that of Brigade-Major Joseph Greenwood. To the extreme left, the original Wood's Royal Hotel can be seen, with its verandah partly enclosed with lattice. The two-storey building next door to it is the Royal Masonic Hotel, and beside that, the Union Bank of Australia. Various men, women and children are standing or sitting in the street, and a carriage drawn by two horses, carrying four people, rides up the street According to Una Platts' 'The lively capital: Auckland 1840-1865', the image is given the title 'Princes Street, Auckland, 1849, with Colonel Wynyard's carriage'; this title does not appear on the original and may come from family knowledge Wynyard made two versions of the scene; the other is privately owned. The Library holds a photographic reference to this version Other Titles - Street Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princes St. 1849 [in ink] See also John Williams' pencil and crayon drawing of the same scene, about 1850, at A-079-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 183 x 222 mm, hinged to gate-fold matt 480 x 403 mm Provenance: Previously from a sketchbook of R H Wynyard's, owned by R Lewin Wynyard, Auckland (see U Platts, 'The lively capital ...', 1971, List of illustrations p.257)

Date: 1847 - 1852

By: Mundy, Godfrey Charles, 1804-1860; Walton, W L, active 1834-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871

Reference: A-447-005

Description: Shows a view of Auckland from the harbour, with a steam-ship in the foreground, and other boats in the distance. A number of buildings can be seen on land; the area shown is Parnell, with St Paul's church and the Britomart barracks visible. Appeared in volume 2, page 72 of Godfrey Charles Mundy's 'Our antipodes: or, Residence and rambles in the Australasian colonies' (London: Richard Bentley, 1852) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-painted, 125 x 195 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, mounted and owned in Australia (Antique Print Room, 455 George St., Sydney)

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

Reference: E-943-q-026

Description: A view of what could be Auckland or Wellington Harbour. A cliff face dominates the right half of the view, and a two-masted sailboat is beached on the shore. Another sailboat can be seen in the harbour, with a range of hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 145 x 173 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: 1846 - 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: A-452-016

Description: A view of the Auckland foreshore, mid-19th century, from the water. A number of similarly-built houses can be seen near the water's edge, and one of them is surrounded by a low wooden fence with two gates (possibly being the house of Captain Denny). A small wooden pier, probably an early form of Wynyard Pier, runs out to the water. Various people are seen at leisure on the shore, including a woman with an umbrella, two men reclining against rocks, and a couple of children in a small rowboat. Although the hills are visible in the background, there is no sign of developing roads or other buildings further up the hillside. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - R H W [artist's initials] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 114 x 183 mm on sheet 185 x 222 mm

Date: 1868

From: Artist and photographers unknown :[Watercolours of the Bay of Plenty and thermal regions, Atlantic and Indian Ocean islands, and Ireland; photographs of Dover, a Belgian monument, Ireland and New Zealand bush, 1866-1868]

Reference: A-443-014-1

Description: Shows a view from the top of Mt. Eden, looking in part down at the ridges of the crater in the foreground, as well as out into the Auckland harbour, which shows North Head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. A number of sailing ships are dotted in the harbour. Although not the same scene, this might usefully be compared to F.R. Stack's View of Auckland, New Zealand, from the crater of Mt. Eden (Stack. F.R., Views in the province of Auckland ... London, 1862 (C-060-015)) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour, from the crater of Mt Eden. Bottom right, 1868 [both inscriptions in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 280 mm

Date: 1861 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-183-027

Description: Shows Commercial Bay with Wynyard Wharf in the foreground, North Head and Rangitoto in the distance, viewed from Courthouse Hill (now Constitution Hill). A tent-style building sits on the slope of the hill in the foreground to the left (probably Queen St.), with three figures standing in front of it. A number of vessels, including a sailing ship, sailing boats and rowboats or waka, can be seen in the bay. In the foreground on the right can be seen a Norfolk pine amongst other trees and bush, and the smoking brick chimney and part of the roof of a house. The word harbour in the work's title is mis-spelled as habour The library also holds a very similar work by Warre entitled Auckland harbor [1864?] (B-035-017), featuring North Head, Rangitoto Island, ships in the bay and a Norfolk pine, though with less built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Habour, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 316 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase the work was put up for auction at the International Art Centre, Auckland, July 2011 (lot 47, passed in); prior to that, privately owned

Date: 1855 - 1865

Reference: 1/1-017989-G

Description: Photograph of a watercolour with a view from inside the fort looking out to the Waitemata Harbour. Three soldiers standing in the foreground, several piles of cannonballs to the right, a Union Jack flying centre, the fort's walls with gaps for cannon and part of a wooden building visible on the far left. Several ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

Date: 1 Jul 1899

By: Hanna, John Robert, 1850-1915

Reference: PA7-49-01

Description: View looking east towards North Head and downtown Auckland. There are a large number of ships and yachts in the harbour. In the foreground is a large area of open ground. Photograph taken by Hanna photographic studio, 1 July 1899 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Hanna photo. Protected 1/7/99 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 23.5 x 36.3 cm

Date: 1842 - 1843

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

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: 1865 - 1880

By: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881

Reference: G-250

Description: View across Waitemata Harbour entrance to North Head, with Rangitoto beyond. Two small steamers and a yacht are in the water. There is a rocky shore and cliff in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H.S.C. in brushpoint Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 245 x 447 mm Provenance: Previously on sale at a Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Spratt, Henry Thomas, b 1827 :[Sketchbook. 1860s?]

By: Spratt, Henry Thomas, 1827-1908

Reference: E-572-004

Description: Shows a view looking out to North Head, with the top of Rangitoto Island seen behind North Head at the left. Artist attributed by inscription inside front cover. Artist assumed to be Dr Henry Thomas Spratt, rather than his son Henry Howell Spratt. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1, Wellington, page 884. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on sketchbook page 186 x 247 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barry Smith in 1999. Donor is descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: 1840

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

Reference: E-216-f-115

Description: Two sailing ships (the Anna Watson and the Platina) in Auckland Harbour and a small boat with five people in the foreground. Planks of building timber, another rowboat on the foreshore and groups of tents on the higher ground to the left and on the skyline above cliffs. A red flag (the Red Ensign?) flying on a point at the top of the cliffs. The tent closest to the shore belonged to Captain Rough. Johnson did 2 drawings of this scene. The original of the other similar drawing has disappeared, but a copy made by Elizabeth Hocken is in the Hocken Library. It shows the flag being raised, cheered on by a group of onlookers. See 'Mrs Hobson's Album' (1990), p. 147-148 for further details. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 195 mm

Date: [1885 or 1886]

By: Valentine, George Dobson, 1852-1890

Reference: PA7-54-17

Description: View of Queen's Wharf, Auckland showing several sailing ships berthed at the wharves and a ferry leaving for the North Shore. North Head can be seen in the distance. Photograph taken by G D Valentine between late 1885 and early 1886 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Auckland Harbour. Queen Street Wharf. 96. G.V. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 19 x 29 cm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Carbery, Andrew Thomas H 1836-1870 :Scrapbook. 1863 - 1868.

Reference: E-248-q-106

Description: A view from the harbour with ships in the foreground, showing the buildings of the city's central business district with Partington's windmill crowning the hilltop. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash 286 x 235 mm

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-019

Description: Lake Pupuke in the right foreground, Waitemata Harbour on the left, divided by a tongue of land on which sheep and cattle are grazing. A horseman with his whip and a dog is mustering a bull and several cows on the right. There are swans on Lake Pupuke. In the distance, the church spires of Auckland City can be seen Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 3. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 404 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Beatrice Thomas, Roseneath, 1984

Date: 1860s

From: Bennett, J R E (Mr): Photographs of early Auckland and Maori children

Reference: PA2-2833

Description: Shows Waitemata and North Shore from Parnell with a view of St Stephen's Church in the 1860s. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-060-014

Description: View from the North Shore, looking back towards Auckland city, with four Maori canoes racing (one with a sail), several yachts and sailing ships H. M. S. Miranda and H. M. S. Fawn. The houses of Parnell and other parts of Auckland, and the spire of St Paul's can be seen in the background Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 203 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892 for 20/- for the set of six. (See A H Turnbull's letters)

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-015

Description: The crater of Mount Eden in the centre foreground with cows, goats and sheep grazing, and the city and harbour spread out in the distance. Partington's Windmill can be seen on the left, several church spires stand out and North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the background Same as C-060-015-a on sheet 380 x 570 mm Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 2. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 408 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-017

Description: View of Rangitoto and North Head from a bushy foreshore with a jetty in the foreground. Commercial Bay is at the foot of a slightly-indicated road on the left (Queen Street) leading down to a wharf. The jetty shown is Wynyard Pier, built in 1851. One of the trees in the foreground is a Norfolk pine. The library now also holds a similar view by Warre, entitled Auckland Habour [1861-1865] (B-183-027), which has more built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink written as Auckland harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, and crayon on photo-sensitive paper 155 x 240 mm

Date: [ca 1866]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-87

Description: View of the city and waterfront buildings on that part of Auckland Harbour overlooked by Fort Britomart. Photographed by an unknown photographer about 1866 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print