Places

Date: 1846 - 1847

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-070

Description: View looking east along the Whanganui River from the opposite bank, with Putiki in the foreground, military tents on the town side, churches including Christ Church, houses, Rutland Stockade not yet complete and a fenced area around what was later York Stockade on the left. Jetties can also be seen. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-084-009

Description: Shows a distant view of the town from the far bank of the Whanganui River. York and Rutland Stockades can be seen on the hills at the left, with the spire of Christ Church beyond the houses below. Shakespeare Bluff is across the river to the right. The peak of Mt Ruapehu rises in the distance Title appears to have been added at a later date. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil in the hand of C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1841 - 1847

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-012

Description: Shows a Maori family in the foreground, a "crofter's cottage", ships and canoes on the river and the buildings of the town, including Christ Church, on the opposite side of the river Painted during Gilfillan's stay in New Zealand, 1841-1847. Reproduction of an original watercolour held by the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. No. 69 of a limited edition of 750 copies Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 325 x 493 cm on sheet 495 620 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

Reference: 1/1-007263

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, looking towards the town. Christ Church and the Rutland and York Stockades can be seen, as well as houses Physical Description: Photograph of oil on canvas

Date: 1861

By: Stewart, John Tiffin, 1827-1913; Chapman, George Thomson, 1824-1881

Reference: A-104-006-a

Description: Shows view across river to hills and fortifications on north bank, with houses, Rutland and York stockades and Christ Church, the first Anglican church. Other Titles - South Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wanganui, New Zealand from the S. bank of the River. 1860.; Recto - bottom right - J. T. S.; Recto - bottom right - Chapman Lith. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 830 x 244 mm on sheet 150 x 280 mm.

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Wyatt, Alfred Francis William, 1810-1869

Reference: E-144-027

Description: View from the opposite side of the Whanganui River, looking towards Whanganui township with Rutland and York Stockades on their hilltops, European houses, Christ Church and other buildings on the lower land above the river. A waka in the stream Other Titles - Whanganui Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: A Wyatt del. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing

Date: 1847

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Power, William James Murray Tyrone (Sir), 1819-1911; McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877

Reference: E-078-q

Description: 1. Wash drawing of a Maori family, seated outside a tent, beside a whare, probably near Wanganui. 2. Prelimary pencil sketch of two houses, with a river beyond, probably Whanganui River looking west. 3. Pencil sketch panorama of Wanganui from the opposite bank of the river showing Rutland and York Stockades (built 1847) and the first Christ Church. 4., 5., & 6. Unfinished sketches, including a further view of Rutland Stockade, small drawings of groups of Maori, houses and a balloon-like object. Attributed to Robert Park on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and monotone wash & pencil (6 drawings), 253 x 185 mm

Date: 1860s-1900s

Reference: PAColl-6239

Description: Photographs relating to the family of Rev Basil Kirk Taylor. These are part of a larger collection which includes correspondence to and from members of the Taylor family, mainly Rev Basil Kirke Taylor and his wife Edith. There is a typeset letter from Rev Richard Taylor to his daughter Laura, 1847. Diaries and notebooks, mainly kept by Rev Basil Kirke Taylor, although the earliest ones were kept by Rev Richard Taylor and his wife Caroline. The diaries of Basil Taylor record his time in England before ordination, and later when he joined his father at the Wanganui Mission, and up until his premature death in 1876. The privately printed reminiscences of Richard Basil Taylor, the grandson of Rev Basil Taylor, entitled `Family recollections'. These memoirs give details of his missionary forebears, as well as describing his diplomatic career and own family. Includes many photographs and family trees Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-058/059

Description: A view from east Wanganui (Aramoho area) looking west along the river towards the town and Durie Hill. Rutland Stockade and Christ Church can be seen, as well as a number of houses. There is a two-storied house on flat land on the opposite side of the river. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 260 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863

Reference: E-273-q-019

Description: Shows a Maori couple sitting in the foreground looking down over rolling country to a small township with a church, probably Whanganui with Christ Church. There is a toitoi bush in the right foreground. Dating: drawn before 1847, when Gilfillan left New Zealand Other Titles - Sketch of Maoris [former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J A Gilfillan Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 177 x 256 mm. Processing information: Transferred from Manuscripts in 1965.

Date: 1847 - 1864 - 1848 - 1865

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: A-036-018

Description: View from the south bank of the Whanganui River, showing York Stockade, Rutland Stockade, Christ Church, Yankee Smith's Hotel, Gilfillan's house. Attributed by the vendor to Edward Arthur Williams although the style does not appear to be his and the view seems more likely to date from the 1840s than the 1860s. Williams visited Wanganui in 1864 and 1865. The church and both stockades were erected in the 1840s. Gilfillan left Wanganui in 1848 and Yankee Smith's Hotel was run by Alva G. Smith only in the 1840s Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 178 x 252 mm Provenance: Pharazyn family ownership previously.

Date: 1861

By: Stewart, John Tiffin, 1827-1913; Chapman, George Thomson, 1824-1881

Reference: A-104-006

Description: Shows view across river to hills and fortifications on north bank, houses, Rutland and York stockades Christ Church, the first Anglican church. Other Titles - South Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Wanganui, New Zealand from the S. bank of the River. 1860.; Recto - bottom right - J. T. S.; Recto - bottom right - Chapman Lith. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 830 x 244 mm on sheet 150 x 280 mm.

Date: 1841 - 1847

By: Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-012-a

Description: Shows a Maori family in the foreground, a "crofter's cottage", ships and canoes on the river and the buildings of the town, including Christ Church, on the opposite side of the river Painted during Gilfillan's stay in New Zealand, 1841-1847. Reproduction of an original watercolour held by the Dixson Galleries of the State Library of New South Wales. No. 68 of a limited edition of 750 copies Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph 325 x 493 cm on sheet 495 620 mm

Date: 1852 - 1880 - 1857 - 1890

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-007

Description: Shows view of Wanganui wharf, Christ Church, and Rutland Stockade, framed by cave entrance, with three Maori figures in foreground. Loosely based on Richard Taylor's "Wanganui, NZ" (1848), at E-296-q-159, combined with the wood engraving in the Church Missionary Gleaner (1884, p. 83, a re-illustration of an 1850s view] 'The mission station at Wanganui, as seen from a natural cave in the rocks'. Dating: W E & F Newton were based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden surround) between 1852 and 1857 A likeness of this scene is at Curios-042-013, Wanganui and cave New Zealand, by the same publishers Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 35 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-069

Description: View from the hills opposite Wanganui township, looking down on the river and town, with the Gun-boat Stockade (the site of Moutoa Gardens) closest, the Main Stockade (Rutland Stockade) and the middle stockade (York Stockade). Houses and possibly a hospital are also visible as is Christ Church and St John's Wood (to the far right), with the sea horizon on the left. The nature of the terrain is also indicated as sandhills, flax swamp, fern and grass. In the distance to the right "The Taua" (a Maori raiding party) is also shown. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets of tracing paper 262 x 177 & 262 x 180 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [1880s]

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

Reference: 1/1-000582-G

Description: Christ Church, Wanganui, in the 1880s. Shows early graves and the sunday school. Photograph taken by William James Harding. (or taken in circa 1920s by Frank James Harding?) This was the 2nd Christ Church. It was later moved to Gonville and renamed St Peter's. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-06-5

Description: The view is taken on the north side of the town. Shows the town and Christ Church in the foreground and river and hills behind. Putiki Wharenui Pa and the house of Rev Richard Taylor can be seen on the far bank of the river. Other Titles - Wanganui The Library holds the original watercolour on which this view is based (A-179-014) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 55 x 90 mm.

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-179-014

Description: Shows the town of Petre or Wanganui, with its earliest houses, and Christ Church, the first church, at the left. The river lies beyond, with hills in the background. A small group of armed men can be seen in the left foreground. The buildings in the distance across the river appear to comprise Putiki Wharenui Pa, and, to the left, the house of Rev Richard Taylor This is the original watercolour for the handcoloured engraving that appears in Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", Plate 6, no 19. The artist may have added the group of soldiers at a later date. He left New Zealand in 1845, before British troops were present in the lower North Island. There are no soldiers in the engraving derived from this watercolour. The town of Whanganui or Wanganui was originally named Petre by the New Zealand Company. It reverted to its original Maori name in the 1854. Other Titles - Whanganui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 163 x 226 mm. Provenance: Previously bought on 6 February 1937, by Mr Donald McElwain of London and Wanganui, from Miss Webb (Tunbridge Wells, Kent), the adopted daughter, or companion, of the great-niece of the artist. Note at AT 10/14, 1 May 2003, accompanying painting, states that Miss Webb was also the adopted daughter of Miss Brees.

Date: 1840 - 1849

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

By: Parkes, Samuel, 1790-1863

Reference: E-273-q-021

Description: Shows view looking from slopes of stockade across churchyard and cemetery at back of Christ Church. Soldiers appear to be exercising in yard in middle distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mr Parkes (note by R Taylor or later hand).; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 177 x 256 mm.

Date: between 1866-1872

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

Reference: 1/1-000015-G

Description: Scene in Wanganui taken between 1866-1872, with the York stockade, and the second Christ Church in the centre. Photograph taken by William James Harding. Note on back of file print reads "Church built 1866. York stockade dismantled 1872." Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative