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Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-021-2

Description: A view of Humbert Mt, Cosmos Peak (8000 ft), Mt Alfred (4412 ft), Mt Earnslaw (9165 ft), and Mt Larkins(7432 ft) from the northernmost bend of Lake Wakatipu. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Panorama from Norhtermost bend of Lake Wakatipu. 9/12/82. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 50 x 268 mm

Date: 1877 - 1972

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: B-076-031

Description: Shows Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw Issued with text Nos 3, 4, 8, 13 of limited edition of 1,000 copies Same as B-076-031-a, b & c Extended Title - First published in Barraud, C D, New Zealand, graphic and descriptive. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 249 x 355 mm on sheet 406 x 484 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hart, Campbell & Company

Reference: E-328-f-023-2

Description: Shows snow-covered Mount Earnslaw, at the head of Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Mount Earnslaw. Head of Lake Wakatipu; Recto - bottom left - Hart, Campbell & Co photos Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 200 mm

Date: [Between 1870s and 1890s]

By: Erskine & Whitmore (Firm); Coxhead & Le Sueur (Firm); Hart, Campbell & Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-151

Description: Views of New Zealand collected by Invercargill firm Erskine & Whitmore. Scenes taken by various photographers including Hart, Campbell & Co., and Coxhead & Le Sueur. Several views show Queenstown under floods in 1878; others of the Queenstown-Lakes Region, Waitati, Gore and Dunedin in the South Island. In the North Island, one shows a large picnic party travelling in three horse-drawn coaches, stopped at Ngauranga; many show a range of steam locomotives including J Class, K Class, F43, E22, H Class and A Class, in the Upper Hutt area, the Wairarapa, and on the Rimutaka line. Several at the end of the album show the effects of a major slip which blocked the mouth of the Summit Tunnel at the top of the Rimutaka Incline. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Other Titles - Erkine & Whitmore Inscriptions: Album page - `A choice collection of New Zealand views carefully selected from the best artists'. Erskine & Whitmore, Invercargill Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Blue buckram cover, 24.5 x 35.0 cm Provenance: Part of Alexander H Turnbull's collection

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1883

From: [Moreton, Samuel Horatio], 1845?-1921 :[Sketchbook, 1883-1886]

Reference: E-120-q-1-068

Description: View looking up Lake Wakatipu to Mount Earnslaw Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 115 x 190 mm

Date: 1870 - 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1875]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-014-q-2-054

Description: A view from tall bush across Lake Wakatipu towards Mount Earnslaw. Includes the note on the lake 'great sheen of light' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 170 x 269 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Hart, Campbell & Company

Reference: PA1-f-072

Description: Photographs of the Southern Lakes (listed above), taken by various photographers including Frank Arnold Coxhead, the Burton Brothers, and Hart, Campbell & Company. Other Titles - New Zealand. Southern Lakes Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, leather corners and spine, entitled "New Zealand. Southern Lakes"; 49.5 x 31.5 cm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-021-1

Description: Shows Mt Earnslaw with a light covering of snow Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Head of Lake Wakatipu - Mt Earnslaw (9165 ft)- 9/12/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 60 x 157 mm

Date: 1878

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Dunedin, Australia, and Central Otago] 1872 [and] 1878

Reference: E-032-2-080

Description: A tall mountain viewed across a lake, possibly Mount Earnslaw. The drawing is on a loose scrap of blotting paper, between pages 78 and 80 in the sketchbook Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, on blotting paper, page size 86 x 88 mm

Date: 1877 - 1972

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: B-076-031-a

Description: Shows Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw Issued with text Nos 3, 4, 8, 13 of limited edition of 1,000 copies Same as B-076-031, b & c Extended Title - First published in Barraud, C D, New Zealand, graphic and descriptive. London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 249 x 355 mm on ahwwr 406 x 484 mm

Date: 1880

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Central Otago goldmining areas, 2 dated 1880]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-032-q-3-013

Description: View of steep mountains above lake Wakatipu. The position of Mount Earnslaw is noted Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 115 x 254 mm

Date: 1896

From: Gifford, Algernon Charles, 1862-1948 : Albums and photographs

Reference: PA1-o-181

Description: Views, chiefly unidentified, of a trip in the South Island in January 1896, photographed by Algernon Charles Gifford. Most of the photographs are landscape views of lakes and mountains in the Wakatipu area, but there are a number showing a group of six unidentified people in the garden of a single-storeyed house with verandahs, at Paradise. In another scene a man and woman, two of the previous group, are shown in a field with the man wearing riding clothes, seated on a white horse, and the woman standing by the horse's head with a dog beside her. Also one photograph shows three young girls, Bessie and Daisy Fergus, and Agnes Mill, also at Paradise. A large two-storeyed house with verandahs upstairs and downstairs is seen in one image. An envelope attached inside the back cover, contains 14 loose photographs of similar views. Inscriptions: Album page - Some mementos of a trip to Lake Wakatipu, Queenstown, Glenorchy & Paradise via Invercargill, Jan. 1896 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark maroon cover, entitled `Photographic views'; 22.5 x 19.0 cm

Date: [Between 1868 and 1895]

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-044

Description: Images of New Zealand, including the first photograph in the album made up of a collage of Maori portraits entitled "Maori land". Photographs taken by the Burton Brothers of Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black covered album, 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1881-1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919: Papers

Reference: MS-0873

Description: Gives account of voyage from Plymouth to Melbourne, diary of his attempts to climb Mt Cook, sketches of Mt Cook and Tasman Glacier, details of trip to Mt Earnslaw, and notes on New Zealand alpine flora. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (ca 120 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (16 cm; black boards, in grey phase box)

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bailey, Conrad, fl 1980 : Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes, one including pressed ferns

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-q-021

Description: Album of pressed ferns, most of which are used to frame images of New Zealand, but some pages consist solely of pressed ferns. The photographs show New Zealand scenes, and include two postcards of collages. One has the legend "Maoridom" and at the base "The old order changeth" with a photograph of Maori king Tawhiao, and various artifacts including taiaha, cloaks, and two preserved heads of Maori. The other shows portraits of a number of Maori men and women, and views of Parihaka and Ohinemutu. Among the views of new Zealand scenery are images of the White Terraces in eruption, the Pink Terraces, Manawatu Gorge, Dunedin, Queen Street (Auckland), Lake Ada, and Tois Tois [sic] Island on the Clinton River, Lake Te Anau. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Red cloth-bound album, with gold lettering "New Zealand ferns and scenery"

Date: 1889

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-035

Description: View across Lake Wakatipu showing flat terraces from the former level of the lake Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 99 x 161 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-040-005

Description: A view of Lake Wakatipu on a calm day, with a snow-laden Mount Earnslaw rising in the distance, shrouded in some low cloud. In the foreground are three horesemen, their horses and a dog. One man sits astride his horse; the second sits on a rock beside his horse; and the third man bends to make a fire. The dog lies resting on its side. A tiny train of steam indicates a steam boat on the lake in the distance The Library also holds two copies of a colour photolithograph of the same scene, at C-117-019, from International Art Centre in 1982. Barraud also painted other scenes of both Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw, some held by the Library Deframed by the Library Other Titles - Making camp, Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / 1874 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour on paper, 600 x 935 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, provenance as follows: Private collection, Auckland; National Treasures art auction, International Art Centre, March 1993; Fine Paintings and Watercolours, International Art Centre, March 1988; Fine Art auction, International Art Centre, 1971

Date: 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

Reference: E-035-q-1-047

Description: A man with a walking pole standing on a narrow rocky ridge close to a pillar-shaped rock formation, high above the valley of the Rees River. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream paper in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm