Places

Date: ca 1870s

Reference: 1/4-019109

Description: A main street in Wanganui with some passers-by, a laden carriage in the middle of the street and a horse tethered at the side. The Bank of New Zealand is on the right with the Munro Store further down the street. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: [ca 1870s-1890s]

By: Peyman, Benjamin, 1823?-1897

Reference: PA7-50-04

Description: Shows a line-up of men with their horse-drawn ploughs in a paddock. Pasted on the back of a photograph of Wanganui River taken by B Peyman, ca 1870s-1890s, taken from Durie Hill looking over the river to the York Stockade on York Hill which was dismantled by Dec 1872. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - 1397. Box 25 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 155 x 204 mm

Date: 1865

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

Reference: B-045-030/031

Description: Double spread shows forts amongst the hills at left, and the town and harbour on the lower ground at the right. Three boats are pulled up in the river. Horses are being exercised in the centre field. Previously, the two sides of the work were not matched together and the right side was thought to be "Patea 5 March". (This was because it had been juxtaposed with page [48] which bears this caption in one corner). Left side was previously catalogued at B-045-032, and right side at B-045-021. Other Titles - Patea 5 March Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

By: Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940

Reference: 1/1-003133

Description: View of a young bare-footed Maori woman with a horse-drawn hand plough. She has a flax basket attached to her waist. Standing beside her is a Maori man also with a flax seed kit. A group of people, including small children, are sitting and standing near by. The sea and a coastline can be seen in the distance. Recently plough ground is in the immediate foreground. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, ca 1900, probably in the Wanganui district. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 8.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1860]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Trafford, Benjamin William Rawson, 1824?-1891

Reference: D-040-003

Description: Shows a scene on the Whanganui River. Shakespeare Cliff is prominent on the right, and Mount Ruapehu is visible in the distance. The Wanganui settlement is nestled into the hills in the middle ground, and the Rutland and York stockades are visible on the hill above the town. In the foreground is a group of Māori, comprising six adults or young adults, and one child, who would appear to be Pākehā. They are grouped as half standing, half being seated. There is much evidence of European clothing being worn by almost all the figures, with a woman on the right in full European dress complete with hat. The child in the group stands close to her and is possibly her own child, though his complexion is pale. The Māori man on the left has full facial tā moko, and holds the reins of a horse, which stands grazing. The horse would appear to belong to the woman in European dress, as it carries a side-saddle. The other man in the scene is dressed wearing a blanket and bare feet, and holds a kete, staff and eeling pot. Beyond the group can be seen the pallisades of Putiki Pā, beside which graze a half a dozen cattle. A number of vessels can be seen on the river, including a schooner and a double-sailed waka. The artist of this work is uncertain, after close comparison against works by other artists including John Alexander Gilfillan, Richard Aldworth Oliver, and Charles Decimus Barraud was undertaken. Benjamin Rawson Trafford has also been suggested as the artist, but no other work in watercolours by him is known for stylistic comparison. He was in Wanganui between ca 1847 and 1863 and had a Māori wife and child, possibly the subjects of this watercolour. He may also have been the earliest owner of the work and was the step-ancestor of the English vendor Other Titles - Whanganui. Benjamin William Rawson Trafford Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 482 x 713 mm Provenance: Prior to auction, in a private collection, England by descent from a step-ancestor, Benjamin Rawson Trafford, an early settler in Whanganui, to Lady Rosalind Bodington Processing information: Description updated 26 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member, as part of reparative description work.