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Date: 1867

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: E-106-f-019-2

Description: A Māori man and two women seated outside a carved gateway and the palisade of Maketū Pā, near Tauranga. The woman in the white skirt has been identified as Hineatūrama, Phillip Tapsell's third wife. The seated man with the spear to the right is Hikaroa. The dog in the foreground was sent from Denmark to Philip Tapsell in New Zealand by his brother. It was a Dutch barge dog. Engraver, J.J. The gate shown in this view is now in the Vienna Museum. Engraving from a earlier work, Hineatūrama died at Ōrakau in 1864. Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 50, p. 27, 1867. This wood engraving is based on an 1864 watercolour by Robley held at MTG Hawkes Bay, accession number MMC 808, https://collection.mtghawkesbay.com/objects/33549/one-of-the-famous-old-gates-of-the-arawas-pah-at-maketu-1864-destroyed accessed 5 July 2023. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 220 x 165 mm Processing information: Description enhanced 5 July 2023.

Date: Between 1886 and 1888

From: Levin, William Hort, 1845-1893 :Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company Ltd :Views on the Wellington & Manawatu Railway

Reference: PA1-f-239-27

Description: Group of four men pulling a waka laden with camping equipment through a rapid on the Otaki River. Photograph taken between 1886 and 1888 by Wrigglesworth & Binns of Wellington. A dog is standing on the near bank. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 213. Canoeing Otaki River. W&B The same four men appear in PA1-f-239-29. This photograph was probably taken on the same canoeing expedition, and is one of a sequence of views in the Otaki region probably taken on the same visit to the area. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Collodion print 15.2 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page 23.4 x 30.1 cm

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: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

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

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 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-0011-08-1

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background. A boar hunt is underway in the foreground, with one Maori man and a dog to the right. The Maori man is dressed in traditional costume, and appears to be carrying a rope. Bracken and ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr Charles Kettle, one of the Company's Assistant-Surveyors, ascended the Manawatu River, which flows along the other side of the Tararua Mountains, and entered this plain by rounding the low spurs at the extreme right of the view. The forest consists of the largest trees. The open tracts are covered with grass, feern and tutu bushes. Wild hogs abound in this plain. The Ruamahanga flows through the midst of it, and passes through Lake Wairarapa into Palliser Bay. The plain of the Ruamahanga is about sixty miles in length, with an average breadth of twelve miles. There is one small native village at its northern extremity, and another on the beach at Palliser Bay, as well as a whaling station supplied from Wellington. Lake Wairarapa is ten miles long, and from two to three miles broad. Between the lake and the sea several settlers from Wellington have recently squatted with large herds of cattle, which they drove along the sea-coast. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 460 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-0011-08-2

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy range in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"); a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 4 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs. The dogs are worrying the boar. The Maori are wearing traditional Maori clothing, and all are carrying firearms. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 495 mm

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Trelawney Saunders Ltd; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: D-016-010

Description: View looking out to the harbour, a fenced ploughed area to the left, framed by a tree, a man reclining on two felled tree trunks and others standing, talking, cows, a dog, huts and houses closer to the water's edge on the right and several ships in the harbour. Original pencil drawing with same title, identifying "Heyward's Point, Tairoa's Head, Custom House" (held at C-012-003) Backed with paper and linen Extended Title - Published and sold by Trelawney Saunders [1849? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 396 x 754 mm on sheet 603 x 880 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered in a letter to Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 20 April 1896, for 42 shillings

Date: 1862

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

Reference: C-060-021

Description: In the left foreground, a bullock team is hauling an enormous log, possibly cut from one of the tree-stumps on either side of the nearby road. Three men and a woman are on horseback in the right foreground, along with a dog. There is partly cleared bush in the middle distance and the Hauraki Gulf and Coromandel Peninsula are in the background. The houses of part of Auckland are on the left in the distance and several of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf are visible, probably including Ponui and Pahiki Other Titles - Firth Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 4. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 200 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Beatrice Thomas, Roseneath, 1984

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: 1863

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096086-G

Description: Ngati Whatua group at Kaipara, probably performing a haka, photographed in 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. Note the dog in the foreground. Other Titles - Maori War Dance at Kaipara in 1863. Ngati Whatua tribe. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - 18 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1846 - 1951

By: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962

Reference: A-173-035

Description: The stone Paremata Redoubt, with its two towers, surrounded by a yard with a picket fence. A ship visible in Porirua Harbour in the background and soldiers standing in line to attention, with tents in the distance. By the gate in the foreground, a Maori woman is selling produce to a group of soldiers, while another man with fish in a kete, and a woman with potatoes await their turn. Two civilians watch the proceedings from the right, one smoking a pipe. Drawn from descriptions provided by James Cowan The remains of this fort still stand in the Ngati Toa Domain, at Mana, just north of Porirua City Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Grey wash, 242 x 316 mm

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1854

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Wilson, Frederick J, active 1850s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: B-051-014-a

Description: View of Dunedin in 1849 taken from a park-like foreground area with a man, a woman, and a child admiring the view, framed by trees, with the embryo town in the middle distance on the left, the harbour on the right and hills in the background. Based on a watercolour in the Hocken Library, completed 1849. The lithograph is considered to have been published approximately 1853. "Little Paisley" (the name is no longer current) was so named because it was a settlement of weavers, from Paisley. It was on the site of the present Southern Cemetery. The Library has a postcard copy of the original watercolour in the Drawings and Prints photo file. Ellis no. 524. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, hand-coloured (edges trimmed) 179 x 274 mm

Date: 1863

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096084

Description: A young Maori woman at Tarawa parore, the residence of Andrew James Bonar and Elizabeth Frances Bonar at Kaukapakapa, photographed in late 1863 by Daniel Manders Beere. The photographer's negative register entry reads "Halfcast at Helensville." The photograph has been identified and dated by comparison with 1/2-096085-G. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Beere 16 This woman has been identified as Tawera Parore Andrew and Elizabeth Bonar, their son William, and Andrew's brother John William, arrived on the \"Shalimar\" on 23 December 1859. John William remained a bachelor, and William did not marry until 1866. This is therefore the home of Andrew and Elizabeth Bonar. (Source: Louise Michaux, pers com) Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 4.5 x 7.25 inches

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-014

Description: Shows 2 men on left, boiling a billy over a fire, with sheep and dogs, Bridle Path in centre with three men, a horse, sheep and cattle, the Heathcote River and part of the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Pegasus Bay, and smoke and trees at the site of the future Christchurch. Original sketch for etching by T.Allom published in "Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" (London, 1851. Art f919.31 / FOU). On verso: "Alphabetical list of the first purchasers of land at the Canterbury settlement" and references to correspondence between Governor Grey and Earl Grey. Other Titles - Lyttelton = Christchurch; River Avon or Shakespeare = Heathcote River; Forty Miles Beach = Pegasus Bay Cf similar watercolour in the Hocken Library: Part of the Great Plain Canterbury, N.Z. 1851 (neg.1/2-105095-F) taken from the same spot by the same artist but with no staffage. This ink drawing may be a copy by H. J. Cridland of Fox's original, or of one of the prints of the same scene published in August 1851. Compare the style of A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective, and the style of rendering figures. The artist was present to welcome the first settlers in Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 he was back in England for some time before returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 206 x 321 mm (wedge cut from upper left corner) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London? Processing information: Originally tipped in to Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136]. Removed 1987 or 1988.

Date: 1880-1902

By: Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: 1/2-044102-F

Description: Men standing across from the Caledonian Hotel in Okarito. There is a young boy and a dog standing on a plank of wood, looking at the camera. All of the people in the photograph are unidentified. Photograph taken by James Ring between 1880-1902. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Okarito NZ 894; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Ring photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: E-334-053

Description: Top left, 'Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching at Tarawata's Kaik' shows Alfred Wills standing on a beach, with the kainga (kaik) in the background. He has a sketchpad in his hands. Top centre, a (Maori?) man's face, the back view probably of Wills, with a broad-brimmed hand and a pack on his back and a side view of a seated dog. Top right and across the bottom, diary notes for 3 to 7 October. '5 October - reached Waiteruati. 7 October visited the plantation behind the kaik ... Huirapa - Tarawata not yet taken' Tarawhata was the son of Ngai Tahu rangatira, Te Rehe Other Titles - Tarawhata Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Oct 3-7; Recto - top left - Beneath one sketch: Mr Wills as he appeared while sketching `Terawata's Kaik Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

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).

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: 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