Places

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 1852 - 1855

From: Crompton, William Morgan, 1811-1886 :[Sketchbook in France and New Zealand] / W M Crompton and A D Crompton, 1844-1882

By: Crompton, Amelia Dorothea, 1842-1858

Reference: E-122-q-076

Description: A child's drawing of a farmhouse surrounded by a garden, fenced paddocks, a man driving cattle, a horse and foal, a woman or child driving sheep, another woman tending to smaller stock, possibly chickens. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - pencilled inscription added in 1982 by a descendant, E Crompton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 165 x 265 mm

Date: 1889 - 1891

By: Leslie, Walter Jefferson, 1855-1915

Reference: B-033-021

Description: View from above extensive area covered in exhibition buildings, with other Dunedin buildings in the foreground and Anderson's Bay and the sea in the background. The main entrance, gardens, concert hall, Eiffel Tower, Goverment House are indicated, as is the intended opening-date of November 26 1889, and the total dimensions of the area of 12 1/2 acres The print appears to have been issued with the exhibition catalogue's Official Guide to the Picture Galleries. For a copy of the catalogue with sketches of a number of the pictures exhibited see Art Room / P / 759.9931 / OFF Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 376 x 503 mm Provenance: Purchase: K. A. Webster, London 1970

Date: 1889 - 1891

By: Leslie, Walter Jefferson, 1855-1915; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: B-033-021-a

Description: View from above extensive area covered in exhibition buildings, with other Dunedin buildings in the foreground and Anderson's Bay and the sea in the background. The main entrance, gardens, concert hall, Eiffel Tower, Goverment House are indicated, as is the intended opening-date of November 26 1889, and the total dimensions of the area of 12 1/2 acres This copy was folded inside Sir Joseph Kinsey's copy of the exhibition catalogue's Official Guide to the Picture Galleries. The catalogue also contains small pencil sketches of a number of the pictures exhibited. See Art Room / P / 759.9931 / OFF Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 376 x 503 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902

Reference: C-160-004

Description: Shows Leslie Hills Station in the Hurunui district, being the sheep and cattle station of George Rutherford. The single storey verandahed homestead with circular carriage drive, is placed on the gentle slope of a small hill, with neatly fenced fields and outbuildings to the left and right. At the left is a group of six conical haystacks. Several horses feed from a covered feed trough at the left. In the centre a horseman meets with a carriage drawn by two horses, one black and one white. In the far right foreground a group of longhorned cattle is grazing, and beyond, a figure is training two horses. A dark cloud at top left, brings a fleeting shower, but most of the farm basks in sunshine. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - N Chevalier 1866 Chevalier was employed by the Otago and Canterbury City Councils to make sketches of the regions, and travelled extensively throughout New Zealand over a period of eight months. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 530 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Christies South Kensington London, May 1989, lot 175. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1862

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Cornes, Don, active 1974-1995

Reference: B-121-020

Description: Shows Weld's third New Zealand home "Brackenfield" near Amberley with his wife and two oldest children in the foreground. A horse is beside Mrs Weld and the two children. The house and garden look newly established with clumps of cabbage trees and flaxes in flower and flower gardens closer to the house. There is a conservatory to the right of the house and another building, probably a barn, to the far right. To the left of the house is a small chapel. The Welds married in March 1859, so the two children, two-and-a half years later are likely to be the two oldest. Weld purchased the initial 304 acres of land for Brackenfield in July 1861. The 16-room kauri house, its timber shipped from Auckland, was demolished in 1964. Weld also laid out the park-like grounds and imported English deer and game birds. The chapel, one of the first Catholic churches in Canterbury, was moved from the Brackenfield entrance in the 1950s to the main road through Amberley Other Titles - Amberley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brackenfield N Z F.A.W. Nov 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 248 x 358 mm Provenance: Purchased by Don Cornes in Melbourne from Julian Sterling, owner of Southern Cross Gallery, Exhibition Street, ca 1973. Brought to New Zealand. (Information from Don Cornes, personal communication 19 April 1995). Purchased at Dunbar Sloane's, Wellington, by Dr Neville Hogg for $1400 in 1977.

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: C-003-001

Description: Nine-part panorama, forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James' Anglican Church, Lower Hutt. The parsonage itself is shown, along with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, bush and the encompassing hills. There are cows, horses and a man using a plough pulled by two horses Extended Title - South Eastern part of Valley, looking towards Wellington. The distant hills are those lying behind Wellington. Western boundary of hills. St James Parsonage Hutt. Tararua Range in distance, north west end of valley. Hills forming eastern boundary of the valley. Inscriptions: Verso - Most sections have notes in ink as transcribed under title and additional title above Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in 9 sections with linen hinges on verso. Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil in nine sections (mounted in 3 groups of 3) 125 x 159 mm (whole panorama); 125 x 530 mm (each strip)

Date: 1859

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Hutton, Maia Thomas, 1918-1989

Reference: A-197-011

Description: Shows two houses (or a house and chapel?) with well-established fenced gardens on flat land close to the sea. There is promontory with a flagpole beyond the more distant house, and the masts of a ship are visible beyond the promontory. The view is from the land, looking towards the harbour. Horotutu, according to information from the donor, was the next bay to Paihia, on the Waitangi side. Henry and Marianne Williams arrived at the Bay of Islands as missionaries in 1823. Inscriptions: Verso - Title, date, in ink There is an almost identical view on page 1 of Hutton's sketchbook, 'Horotutu from back paddock' (E-137-q-001) The artist arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1842, taught at St John's College, Auckland from 1844 and later trained as an Anglican minister. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 87 x 124 mm