Places

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-043

Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1848 - 1850

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-009

Description: Road in left foreground with stumps at its edge, a tall tree and lower bushes with the harbour and hills visible in the background. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: [ca 1890-1927]

From: France, Thelma Edith Minnie, 1907-2000 : Photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); France, J W, active 1890s

Reference: PAColl-0348

Description: Mounted photographs by the Burton Brothers of the junction of Eden and Tees Streets, Oamaru showing St Luke's Church, shops, tram lines and part of the Council Chambers; looking down on the wharves of Port Chalmers with the Presbyterian Church in the right foreground; and the Kakahi Falls, near Tawhata on the Whanganui River. Two smaller mounted photographs of a river in the Catlins District. Three pages from a photograph album holding five photographs of the building of the Arapuni Dam on the Waikato River including the buried forest exposed by the Waikato River diversion. Three loose prints by J W France of an early settlers' cottage made of ponga with a turf roof and with the family outside; a group of six workmen standing on the road they were building with long handled shovels and a boy and a dog in front of them; and the funeral procession of Sir John MacKenzie in 1901 led by a pipe band up the main road in Oamaru working. Finally a loose print of the bridge over the Waiho River. Arrangement: Copy negatives at 1/2-68928 to 1/2-068934. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted. 4 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-069

Description: Shows a view looking west towards Auckland and the islands in the Hauraki Gulf, from the hills above Coromandel township, on the northern stretches of the Coromandel Range. Shows a figure on horseback on a steep road climbing up towards the left foreground. Shows the results of some bushclearing activity. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

Reference: E-297-004

Description: A moonlit scene with a horseman on a central road surrounded by trees and overlooking a moonlit lake in the background Poukawa Lake is in central Hawkes Bay. This is NOT Pukawa on the shores of Lake Taupo. Other Titles - Poukawa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 128 x 101 mm within ruled lines on album page 225 x 177 mm

Date: 1879

From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm); Sleap, F A, active 1880s

Reference: E-927-f-053-2

Description: Shows a horse-drawn carriage on a road that winds around the slope at the near left. In the right background is a river, and mountains beyond. Native bush is seen at left and right. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 228 x 228 mm.

Date: 1861

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: C-003-004

Description: This is a larger and more finished version of the image at C-003-001. Nine-part panorama forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt. Shows the parsonage with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, roads, bush and hills in the background. There are men on horseback, a light horse-drawn trap, men ploughing with a horse-drawn plough, and a wagon drawn by two horses. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At lower edge of each panel): TBH; Album page - centre - (On verso of one of the panels): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 173 x 2250 mm, on nine joined panels, each 173 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased from a direct descendant of Bishop Selwyn, who previously owned the works. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-248.

Date: 1840 - 1972 - 1850

From: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 :Five early views of the Hutt and Wairarapa. [Wellington], Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1972.

Reference: C-028-036

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tree fern, with a river to the left. More likely to be the Hutt road, somewhere between Petone and the Taita Gorge, during the making of the road in 1842, than the Karori or Porirua possibilities. For original watercolour see B-009-013 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 234 x 328 mm on sheet 510 x 330 mm

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

From: Bridge family :Photograph albums

By: Anson Brothers (Firm); Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Pulman (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-271

Description: Views of New Zealand, England, Australia and Canada, associated with family of Charles Joseph Bridge (d 1876), settler at Homebrook, near Lake Ellesmere; and his son, Charles Hastings Bridge. Includes pressed flowers and leaves, a coloured sketch of a rowing boat on a river lined with willow trees. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Inscriptions: Album page - top centre - Henry Hugh Chapman 1881; Henry Walter Bridge 1886 Quantity: 2 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-017

Description: A road leading towards a gate, possibly the front gate of Mt Peel Station, with bush beyond the gate. Two tall conifers flank the gate and hills and snow-clad mountains are in the background. There is part of a tennis net to the left and small specimen trees set in lawn, suggesting that the view is from the station's front garden, looking out. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1862

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-170-008

Description: Shows a view of Poukawa Lake in Central Hawkes Bay, set amongst hills. Two Maori are walking on the road, away from the viewer. One is a man wearing a Maori cloak and a white European hat; the other, a woman with a small child wrapped to her back in a blanket. The scene looks out from the dense bush of Te Aute Road across Lake Poukawa, towards the Kaokaoroa range of hills. Smoke from a fire can be seen beyond the shore opposite See also PUBL-0016-22 and E-297-004, depicting the same place, which is not Pukawa Bay on the shores of Lake Taupo A visual likeness to the chromolithograph (PUBL-0016-22) - the Maori man wearing the European hat and the woman carrying the child in a blanket on her back feature in both, and the setting is almost identical Other Titles - Poukawa Lake Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / N Z 1862; mat verso - centre - Pukawa [sic] Lake from the Te Aute Road, Hawke's Bay / C D Barraud, 1862 [in ink - not artist's hand]; Backing board recto - top centre - [View] of Pukawa Lake from the Te Aute Road, Hawke's Bay / Right hand side of Door [in pencil - possibly in artist's hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with pencil and Chinese white, 320 x 470 mm (sight)

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-018

Description: Looking towards Wellington from the corner at Petone where the road begins to run along the hills towards Wellington. Bush-clad Western Hills to the right, the track running around the base of the hills with two people rounding a distant corner, hills in the background, rocks and a flax bush in the left foreground Other Titles - Petone road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W. S. 30 Sep 1848 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 106 x 161 mm

Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: B-159-024

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman with a child on the woman's back, walking beside their packhorse on a road at the left. The packhorse is laden with red saddlebags. The road continues into the foreground and curves away again to the right, disappearing into a bushcovered hilly area. The couple are passing a central rata tree in flower, and there are bushcovered hills in the distance. In the foreground in front of the rata is a pool or section of a river. Location suggested to be the Hutt Valley, but may be one of the gorges off the western side of the harbour, possibly near the old Porirua Road. Letter of authentication dated 24 August 1983 on backing board. Sometimes known as "Maori travellers ..." Other Titles - Maori travellers with packs and horse, pack horse, Hutt Valley [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 262 mm. Provenance: Formerly owned by the artist's great granddaughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock. Auctioned at McArthur & Company Auckland in October 1983 (lot 28)

Date: 1875 - 1891

By: Beetham, Lucelle Frances, 1842-1910; Taine, Josephine Lorna, 1899-1996

Reference: A-178-009

Description: View of the Manawatu Gorge with a rider on horseback on the road beside the river in the distance and another figure walking behind the horse. The road is formed on the right side of the river but there is no railway line on the left. Native bush is shown beside the river and on the hillsides. The road through the Gorge was completed in 1875. The railway on the north bank did not go in until 1891. These facts suggest that this work was completed between 1875 and 1891. Also Richmond Beetham and his wife Lucelle (the artist) moved to Napier in 1876. The phrase "Mrs Beetham" appears to be in a different hand from the title. It may refer either to the identity of the artist or to an owner. The style is very like that of several members of the Swainson family. Lucelle Swainson married artist Richmond Beetham and seems a likely artist for this work. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and Mrs Beetham, the latter in a different hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 250 x 350 mm

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Stowe, Jane, 1838-1931

Reference: A-389-007

Description: View from a road in a cliff on the left, with a bush-filled gully below. Somes Island with a building or buildings near its summit and buildings visible at Petone on the far side of the Wellington Harbour. The Tararua Range in the background Sent to the Library for identification in September 1976. Identified as Wellington Harbour by an unknown artist and somewhat similar to the work of C D Barraud or E A Chapman, in a letter sent to John Monteith Antiques Ltd, Auckland, 22 September 1976. However the work resembles that of Jane Stowe more closely than that of C D Barraud or E A Chapman Other Titles - Jane Stowe Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 357 mm Provenance: In 1976 owned by John Monteith Antiques Ltd, Auckland.

Date: 1847 - 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-056

Description: Shows a straight road through an area of native bush including beech trees, with tall trees at left and right. There are two young lancewood trees in the extreme right foreground, and two sawn-down tree trunks beside them. Three figures walk along the road, two of them together and one further off. There is a range of hills in the distance. Other Titles - Through; Beech Forest; October Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 28 Oct 47; Recto - bottom right - [Initials and date]; Recto - bottom right - [At extreme lower right of sheet] 28 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 202 x 150 mm, on sheet 275 x 214 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-009

Description: Shows a horse and cart, with the driver seated in the cart. The cart heads away along a road that curves around a bend of a road through native bush. There is a tree fern in the right foreground, epiphytes on some trees in the packground, and a drainage gutter at the left side of the road. Marking the corner of the road is a white wooden fence. May show part of Karori Road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pastel, 380 x 274 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-066

Description: Shows two figures with packs and walking sticks, on road leading away between bush. Mountain slope is visible in the background. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-065 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 265 x 185 mm.

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898; Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Kell, C F, active 1877

Reference: PUBL-0016-26

Description: Shows a general view of the river with bare mountains in the background. In the foreground a man on horseback and a standing figure meet on a road which slopes downhill, through trees. A group of cattle graze in a field in the left middle distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 251 x 353 mm