Places

Date: 1886

By: Schell, Frederic B, -1905; Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd.

Reference: A-109-007

Description: View from the wharves in Thorndon, looking towards the harbour and Queen's Wharf, with shipping. The Post Office (with tower) can be seen at the water's edge, along with other buildings, including those on the hills of Kelburn. Extended Title - Published in: Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886. v. 3. op. p.607 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 266 mm (image)

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-035

Description: A view from the harbour past small boats and ships towards the buildings of Lambton Quay along the shoreline, with The Terrace and its buildings rising diagonally above the Quay. "Plimmer's Ark" (John Plimmer's warehouse aboard the hulk of the ship "Inconstant" can be seen at the water's edge in the centre of the view Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & watercolour, 87 x 201 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

Reference: PA2-2744

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1896-1908]

From: Shore-Nye, Mr :Photographs of Wellington and Rotorua

Reference: PAColl-0067-01

Description: Members of Star Boating Club on Wellington Harbour. Photograph taken circa 1896-1908 by William Charles Chatfield. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dates from description at display dates for PAColl-0067. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 7.4 x 10 (approximate measurements as item is unevenly trimmed)

Date: ca 1893

From: Sinclair: Photographs of Cheviot County, chiefly of Cheviot Station

Reference: 1/2-043120-F

Description: Landing slip, engine house and store, on the coastline at Port Robinson, Canterbury, circa 1893. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1880

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waitara sketchbook]

By: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914

Reference: E-357-085/086

Description: Sketch of a young woman, dressed in cape with hood and with blankets covering the lower half of her body, asleep in a chair on a ship's deck. The ship's wheel and the hand of the steersman can be seen to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title and date and G A M This sketch would have been made en route to Norfolk Island, on the 'Southern cross', for the opening of St Barnabas, Norfolk Island (information from Mr F Wright, October 2008; see article in 'Church gazette' for 1880) Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double image). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 360 mm

Date: 1864

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

Reference: B-045-010/011

Description: Shows Fort Britomart on headland in right background. In right foreground is a jetty with several men and one woman with a parasol, standing on it. In front of the jetty is a small sailboat. There are two other small boats between the jetty and the fort, and two more in the left background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (On left panel): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1875

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-052-007

Description: Shows eel traps and two whares in the foreground at the lake's edge at a river mouth. Three Maori are standing and seated in front of the buildings and there is a small canoe in the water and a European yacht in the distance. Bush and tall trees surround the water's edge and the Tararuas can be seen in the background. Hoyte made more than one copy of this view. An almost identical one sold in New Zealand in 1995, possibly the watercolour held by Auckland Art Gallery. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 18 January 1866 refers to a number of Hoyte's watercolours including 'a picture of Horowhenua Lake, in Wellington, from a pencil drawing by Mr W. Fox'. Hoyte is not known to have visited Horowhenua and all of his known views of Horowhenua Lake may derive from William Fox's pencil drawing. The William Fox watercolour seems likely to be one held by the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, Horowhenua Lake, c1850s, watercolour on paper, gift of Mr Cranleigh Barton, 1977. Other Titles - William Fox Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. C. Hoyte [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 272 x 415 mm

Date: 1877

From: Rockel, Ian Robert, 1939- :Photographs of Chatham Islands

Reference: 120-0038-2-F

Description: Thomas Ritchie (left), W Swain (in boat) and Mr Newsham with boat Lady of the Lake at Lake Huro, Chatham Islands, photographed in 1877, probably by Alfred Martin. Information used to date and describe image taken from inscription from print housed at PAColl-3957-1. Alfred Martin visited the Chatham Islands in March 1877. (Source: "A Canterbury album", by Joan Woodward, 1987, p 104). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) individual image on 120 strip. Physical Description: Cellulose triacetate copy negative

Date: 1873

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-013-12

Description: A boating scene at Lyttelton with large rock cliffs on the right Other Titles - Lyttelton .... Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Top of page, above all images] Near Timaru 1873; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - Lyttleton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 68 x 118 mm

Date: 8 September 1888

From: Halse, Frederick James, 1863-1936 : Collection of negatives

Reference: 1/2-004067-G

Description: Ship Pleione on the Patent Slip at Evans Bay, with five men in the foreground, one sitting in a dinghy. The men include Ashcroft, Carrington, Archibald and Crombie. Photographed 8 September 1888 by Frederick James Halse of Wellington. Source of descriptive information - Identified and dated from typescript index to negatives, housed at file TL 6/1/17. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches Processing information: Originally housed in Halse Collection box 8.

Date: 1878 - 1879

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-019

Description: A scene on the Motueka River showing two men rowing and poling a dugout canoe and a man, a woman and a dog on shore Other Titles - Salisbury Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 130 x 195 mm on sheet 297 x 226 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-09-3

Description: The third and right-hand section of a three part panoramic view of New Plymouth, shortly after its establishment as a New Zealand Company settlement. Shows the South end of the town and the Sugar Loaf Islands. Named features are "Mr Rundell['s house]. Mr Newland. Mr Shepherd. Mr Lewthwaite. Labourers Residences commonly called Devonport. Pare Tutu. Motu-o-Mahanga or Island of Flight. Moturao or Tall Island 200 feet high. The accompanying text reads: The spectator stands with his back to the sea, in the garden of the [New Zealand or Plymouth] Company's agent. There is only an open Roadstead [Harbour] here, and the colonists are essentially agricultural. Surf-boats, however, and excellent moorings, provided by the Company, facilitate the landing of passengers and goods. Mount Egmont is distant about fifteen miles. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 465 mm

Date: 1886

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025715

Description: View of Somes Island and Wellington Harbour, showing boats belonging to the Tainui Canoe Club, the lighthouse and the lighthouse keeper's cottage. Photographed by William Williams in 1886. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1885-1891]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020443-G

Description: View of part of the rocky shoreline at Island Bay, Wellington. A small boat is tied up near one of the outcrops of rocks. Amy Elizabeth Wright, the daughter of the photographer is seated on the shore with a cocker spaniel and an unidentified dog in her lap. Photograph taken by Henry Wright in the period circa 1885-1891. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1852

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Standidge & Company

Reference: C-010-020

Description: View from the end of the wharf at the foot of Queen Street, looking towards the waterfront buildings and up Queen Street, with Partington's windmill on the skyline. A line of barrels along the wharf and two containers of goods, a man wheeling a wheelbarrow, another wheeling a barrow, two soldiers, other groups of citizens, Maori canoes and a rowboat drawn up at the water's edge on the left and groups of Maori sitting. The Wesleyan (Methodist) Chapel is on the left, above the first row of buildings. A version in oils of this view is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. An uncoloured lithograph is also held (by the Turnbull Library) at C-010-005. The Library also holds watercolour copies of this view by W. S. Hatton, copied from an Illustrated London News wood engraving from this print, at B-078-012 and B-078-017 and the Mitchell, too, has a watercolour copy by Hatton, an English artist who confined his work to copies of views in the Illustrated London News. Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 274 x 324 mm on sheet 370 x 540 mm

Date: 1889

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-025-3

Description: Looking north-west along the beach line at Russell, towards the hill with its signal pole and houses on the waterfront, with part of a jetty, boats and boat sheds on shore and a Norfolk pine in a garden to the right Other Titles - Russell Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 121 x 213 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-068

Description: In the upper sketch, four European men alongside a small tent, with two Maori, gathering sticks (possibly flax stalks) to make a small reed boat or mokihi. They are close to the mouth of the Waihao River, with the sea and coastline visible beyond them. In the lower view, low hills and coastling. The text 'Ye historie of ye moki by W. M. Right merrily ...' has been crossed out, lower right. Wainono Lagoon is on the coastal plain between the Hook and Waihao Rivers, Waimate District, South Canterbury Other Titles - Waihao mokihi Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-016

Description: Two Pakeha beaching a rowboat on the shore in the foreground, watched by a Maori man, a small child and a dog. Two further Maori and a dog are walking away in the distance. The view is from the western shore of Wellington Harbour, possibly close to Kaiwharwhara, looking towards Petone in the distance. The western hills are shown covered in bush Other Titles - View of Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 470 mm

Date: ca 1900

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/2-021398-G

Description: Crowd gathered on a bridge to watch a boat race on the Waitara River. Commercial buildings can be seen on the far side of the river. Photograph taken by William A Collis, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative