Places

Date: ca 1860s

Reference: 1/2-007804-F

Description: Mesopotamia homestead showing Butler's original house with out-buildings one shaped like a pataka and the family standing in the field in front ca 1860. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882

Reference: A-036-010

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Photograph of the Library's watercolour of the same title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 126 x 173 mm

Date: [187-?]

Reference: 1/2-017086-F

Description: Samuel Butler's homestead, Mesopotamia, Canterbury. Photograph taken circa 1870s by an unidentified photographer. Note on print backing reads: "Copy neg from the Sealey photograph". ? Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: A-196-015

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 mm