Places

Date: [Between 1868 and 1898]

By: Long, W H (Mrs), active 1970; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Zangaki (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-146

Description: Album of photographs, most taken by the Burton Brothers in New Zealand, including a large number of Maori images, group portraits, identified men and women, pa, and storehouses. Scenes also taken by them in Tonga and Samoa. A number of images show scenes in England, including a group taken near Egremont in Cumbria, of ice on the Mersey River in 1895. There are a large number of copies of paintings of romantic scenes. Several photographs of the Suez Canal, and the Nile River, were taken by Greek photographers `Zangaki' Brothers Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with reddish brown cover, brown corners and spine with single raised cords; fleur de lys pattern stamped between cords; 33.5 x 27.0 cm

Date: 1854-1868

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: PAColl-6329

Description: Views of Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui, Te Ore Ore Pa, and the Pink and White Terraces, taken between 1854 and 1868 by photographers who included George Henry Swan, Edward Smallwood Richards and James Bragge. Quantity: 19 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 album leaf with 6 b&w original photographic prints. Physical Description: Albumen prints Processing information: Formerly MS-Papers-0254-37.

Date: 1847

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Power, William James Murray Tyrone (Sir), 1819-1911; McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877

Reference: E-078-q

Description: 1. Wash drawing of a Maori family, seated outside a tent, beside a whare, probably near Wanganui. 2. Prelimary pencil sketch of two houses, with a river beyond, probably Whanganui River looking west. 3. Pencil sketch panorama of Wanganui from the opposite bank of the river showing Rutland and York Stockades (built 1847) and the first Christ Church. 4., 5., & 6. Unfinished sketches, including a further view of Rutland Stockade, small drawings of groups of Maori, houses and a balloon-like object. Attributed to Robert Park on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and monotone wash & pencil (6 drawings), 253 x 185 mm

Date: 1840

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

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

Reference: C-103-003-6

Description: View looking up the Whanganui River from the Putiki (south) side with snow-clad Mount Ruapehu in the distance. In the foreground is Putiki Pa with the wharenui (meeting house) standing separately, surrounded by a palisade on the right. Other smaller buildings are more distant, surrounded by palisades. Two waka (canoes) are drawn up by the shore. Other Titles - Wharenui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 81 x 208 mm

Date: 1840 - 1880

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

Reference: MapColl-832.41a/[18-?]/Acc.2799

Description: Sketch map representing the Makirikiri Valley, two part blocks, the old pa site Tapiripiri, McLean's pole and the path of the Whangaehu River. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, 27 x 29.4 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

Date: 1882

By: Graphic (London, England); Sherriff, George, 1846-1930

Reference: B-033-006

Description: 10 vignettes from drawings by George Sherriff, showing the Rutland Stockade, a portrait of Major Noake, Mount Egmont with the remains of the Maori fortification at Turoturomokai, Rahotu stockade and camp, Opunake Redoubt, scene in a pa with Maori standing guard by a hut, Te Whiti and Tohu, 'the murderer Hiroki and his guard', the military camp at Pungarehu and Parihaka Published in The Graphic, London, 8 April 1882 The Graphic attributes the drawings to George Sherriff. Some are signed with an engraver's monogram, either H. J. or J. H. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 305 x 228 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Auckland Star :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-003002-G

Description: View looking down over an unidentified Maori pa with steep bush-clad hills behind. Photograph taken by William Henry Thomas Partington, circa 1900, probably in the Wanganui region. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - top left - 4358 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 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.

Date: 1847

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-107-1

Description: Shows a small wooden church in the style of a Maori whare or meeting house. There is a smaller outbuilding or tomb at the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen & ink, 92 x 165 mm.

Date: 1852

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-141-1

Description: Shows a village in the middle distance, on the curved bank of a river. Other Titles - November, 1852 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 105 x 170 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-111-2

Description: Shows a small wooden church in the style of a Maori whare or meeting house. There is a smaller outbuilding or tomb at the rear. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, pen, ink and crayon, 50 x 90 mm.