Places

Date: 1892

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-015

Description: A fenced road with native bush on both sides, including flax and cabbage trees. A stream (or another road?) passes underneath it (or joins it?) from the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1864

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :South Island sketchbook 1864

Reference: E-174-042

Description: A road with telegraph poles on the right, flax bushes and Lake Waihola to the left. Mount Maungatua is in the distance on the far left, its top covered with cloud Acquired with E171: Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbook, signed J C Crawford Extended Title - From his South Island sketchbook, 1864. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawing 128 x 173 mm. Provenance: Estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 1897

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-022

Description: Shows a bend on a road, a small bridge, and native trees on either side of the road at Awahuri. The trees include cabbage trees, flax in flower, and taller trees Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Awahuri Jany 1897 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

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: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Presants, Philip Robert, 1867-1942; Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; Weekly press (Newspaper); McIntosh, Doris Hutchinson (Lady), 1909-1989

Reference: C-079-054

Description: Shows a group of seven boys playing cricket on a country road. One boy stands watching in flax at right, while a girl walks away in the distance. The wickets are substituted by an old bent tin. The following information was supplied by Mr L.J. Burdett, AT 13/14/1, 1 February 1995): The boy holding the bat, standing next to bowler is Thomas William Harrison Hill (1885-1972); the bowler is Jack Barnett; the distant girl is Cecillia Liddle. The town shown could be Dobson or Brunnerton (conflicting information in letters AT 13/14/1, 8 October 1987, from Judy Siers, derived from information from the artist's daughter Myrtle Presants; and 1 February 1995, from Mr L.J. Burdett). However it is almost certainly Dobson. Judy Siers also writes that "the attached print ... originally appeared in the Christchurch Weekly Press 28 October 1899". It is likely that the print was issued as a supplement to the paper, as it does not appear within the pages of the Library's copy. Title from pencil inscription on verso. Picture was formerly attributed to Charles Nathaniel Worsley. However, another copy in private hands is inscribed "Young New Zealand cricket in a mining town (Brunner area)" by P. R. Presants, and has imprint. It also has on the reverse in pencil 'Dobson, 1896' and the location of the view at Dobson in the hand of the owner's grandfather, Clem Green, (the husband of Cecillia Liddle). The owner of the privately-owned copy also believes the little girl in the picture is her grandmother, Cecillia Liddle (pers. comm. December 2003). Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Young New Zealand at play: cricket in a mining town Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) 340 x 490 mm.. Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 340 x 490 mm.

Date: 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-013

Description: Two large flax bushes in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Maori excavations for pa on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert, with other hills in the background. Mt Albert has no houses on or around it Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 247 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-067-2

Description: A road winding up a hill with the Hutt River below. Three men on horseback on the road, with two Maori walking below. A large flax and a small nikau palm are in the left foreground 1852 or 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on surrounding pages of the sketchbook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 226 mm

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-053

Description: A cluster of rough huts, with a fence in a bare plain close to the harbour. A road runs to the right and a group of four people stands in the distance William Barnard Rhodes was involved with the purchase of lands in Waikanae, Porirua and Wellington from the Te Ati Awa and Ngati Toa tribes. Many of these purchases were later disputed by the tribes concerned. Rhodes had also invested heavily in trading and whaling operations in the Kapiti and Wellington districts as well as Northland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on toned paper, 95 x 140 mm

Date: [Between 1865 and 1868?]

From: Hewitt, G R V: Sealy album and two loose prints

By: Sealy, Edward Percy, 1839-1903

Reference: PA1-f-068

Description: Album of photographs taken by Edward Percy Sealy during the 1860s. They show views of Canterbury and the road to the West Coast, including the houses and farm buildings at Castle Hill Station (home of John Davies Enys), and those at the Orari Gorge Station (home of Charles George Tripp). Landscapes mostly show the route from Porter's Pass, past Mount William, through the Bealey Valley, Arthur's Pass, the Ragged Range, Otira Gorge, Orari Gorge, the Rakaia River, and views of Mount Cook (Aoraki) and Mount Sefton. Several photographs show winter scenes in the Alford Forest, followed by summer scenes in the forest. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather cover, impressed design, entitled "Photographic views" in gold lettering; 32 x 40 cm