Places

Date: 1876

By: New Zealand. Ministry of Works

Reference: E-278-q-123

Description: Reproduced on front of a card printed for for the Ministry of Works, New Zealand to celebrate their centennial (1871-1971). Shows a steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Published on front cover of Illustrated New Zealand herald, No 105, 3 May 1876 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 203 x 152 mm on folded card

Date: 1879

From: Seed Family, creator :Cuttings from the illustrated papers [Scrapbook of nineteenth-century illustrations and cuttings. 1870-1880s?]

By: Illustrated Australian news (Newspaper); Ebenezer & David Syme (Firm); Sleap, F A, active 1880s

Reference: E-927-f-053-2

Description: Shows a horse-drawn carriage on a road that winds around the slope at the near left. In the right background is a river, and mountains beyond. Native bush is seen at left and right. Date taken from State Library of Victoria catalogue (Retrieved from http://www.slv.vic.gov.au). This site also states that the engraving appeared in the Illustrated Australian news, published in Melbourne by Ebenezer and David Syme. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 228 x 228 mm.

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-013

Description: A road winding through the Otira Valley, with the river on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 254 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E Laing, England, 18 July 1940

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Jessett, George F, active 1900s?

Reference: A-247-042

Description: A road cut into a steep bush-clad hillside above the Otira River Supplied title Originally mounted on sheet with A-247-039/48 Inscriptions: Mount verso - Descriptive notes, signed: Geo. F Jessett Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 120 x 149 mm

Date: 1876

From: Illustrated New Zealand herald, 1868-1883. Dunedin.

By: Illustrated New Zealand Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0047-1876-105

Description: A steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Extended Title - From Illustrated New Zealand herald, No. 105, May 3rd 1876. Front cover Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 340 x 220 mm

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Jouard, E, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40-2

Description: View into the valley of the Otira River, surrounded by hills and mountains, with large rocks in the foreground and a road with two travellers on foot. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E JOUARD Sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 79 x 153 mm

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-076

Description: View from the rocky river bank across a stream and bridge to high bush covered hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 345 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-022

Description: View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed. See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-070

Description: Shows road in right foreground, beside river, with wooden slopes to the riverbed, and snowy mountains in the distance. Appears to be another version of E-501-f-022, with the rapids less marked. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-069 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 280 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-013

Description: Shows river valley and road, with mountains in background. Partially completed. Some parts not coloured. Dating: the road through Arthur's Pass was not completed until 1866, suggesting an earliest date when Hurt might have travelled through the Pass Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title].; Some pencilled guide notes to indicate required colour, in bottom left quarter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 184 x 255 mm.