Places

Date: 1860 - 1863

From: Working Men's Educational Union :[Missionary wall pictures]. - London ; Working Men's Educational Union, [1850s?]

By: Working Men's Educational Union

Reference: D-010-009

Description: A scene in New Zealand bush with tree ferns and supplejack. Four Maori are assisting a Pakeha man with his luggage, while he stands and watches. The luggage is being lifted up a low cliff face. In the background is a mountain and part of a lake or the sea. Possibly intended to represent Lake Taupo, with Tongariro in the background Probably used as an illustration for lecture tours. The title comes from a description of an illustration of this same scene in 'New Zealand and New Zealanders' (London, F. Baron, 1868) written by the Working Men's Educational Union 'Illustrates the difficulties of travelling in the absence of roads, from the hilly character of many parts of the country' Inscriptions: bottom right - stamp of the Union and the number 44 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Printed calico (hand-col.) 895 x 1187 mm

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-033-a

Description: Shows the saw mill in a clearing in the bush. In the centre foreground a group of five men, some Maori and some pakeha, stand or sit together, holding axes. At the right a man works at a bullock wagon. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-010

Description: Several Maori and European men with axes resting by sawn logs in the foreground. A sawmill building on lower ground in the middle distance in a bush clearing. To the right, a bullock cart with large logs loaded From: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, no. 48, text p 29. Brees notes: "This mill is situated on a tributary of the Kaiwarra-warra, and upon a section belonging to Captain Daniell. ... The works were completed in the month of October 1842 ... It consists of a water wheel placed athwart the stream, which works several circular saws, and the water is dammed up above ..." Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand. London, 1849 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 117 x 168 mm

Date: 1860 - 1879

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: G-200

Description: Shows road cut into steep hillside, with a Maori man and woman walking towards the viewer. There is a rata in flower on the left and tree-ferns to the right of the road. The surrounding hills are heavily bush-clad and a prominent hill in the background may be Mt Kaukau Samuel Woodward was a dairy farmer, who lived in Wadestown from 1849. His farm extended from the Kaiwharawhara Stream to the Town Belt and across from Norwich Street to Lytton Street in central Wadestown. By 1874, he owned 69 acres. Rose Street, Wadestown, was named after his wife. Other Titles - Wadestown, Wellington Inscriptions: Verso - On contemporary label: Title and J C Hoyte Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 120 x 170 mm (sight) Provenance: Webb's auction, Auckland, 1986, purchased by John Crowder, Christchurch.

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-022

Description: A clearing in bush, with a single-storey bark hut on a rock or clay bank beside a small stream. A tall mamaku (tree fern) is in front of the hut, with a seated and a standing Maori figure. Other tree ferns and bush are beyond, with hills. A raupo is in the foreground beside the stream. The scene is likely to be at the foot of the western or eastern hills in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Native bark hut and tree fern, Lower Hutt Valley Inscriptions: Verso - Native bark hut and black fern. Lower Hutt Valley. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 120 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-292-075

Description: A copy, with some variations of a lithograph from an original drawing by William Swainson 'Fern-Tree', lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland in 1849. Both versions show the central tree-fern with its dead branches hanging around the trunk, a standing (armed with a spear) Maori male and a seated Maori woman to the left of the trunk and low scrub beyond. White's watercolour has the addition of another Maori male walking off into the bushes to the right of the trunk of the tree-fern. It is possible that White copied Swainson's drawing, rather than Clarke's lithograph version of this view. See A-004-007 for a copy of the lithograph, which is very rare, and in which Clarke has accidentally reversed the Ns in Swainson's name, and almost in the title, although that is corrected. See also White's 'Black tree-fern' (A-292-073), which tends to suggest that White was copying Swainson's drawing, rather than the lithograph, because it is not reversed, like the lithograph. However the fact that both of Swainson's drawings that he is known to have copied were lithographed by Clarke in Auckland, may suggest that White saw the drawings in Auckland. T. B. Collinson, amongst whose sketches the watercolours by Fred White are located, visited St John's College and White, a fellow member of the Royal Marines, may have visited with him and seen the Swainson drawings there.. Other Titles - Fern-Tree, after William Swainson and Cuthbert Clarke. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]; Recto - top right - 64 [in pencil, numbered by T. B. Collinson. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1847

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington, 47 ; Kai Warra Warra saw mill, 48 ; The Bank, Wellington. 49. Engraved by Henry Melville drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-033

Description: Kaiwharawhara mill amidst native forest In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, Hand-coloured 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-016

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a Maori man walking away from the viewer. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: 1844

By: Domett, Alfred (Hon), 1811-1887

Reference: A-090-025

Description: A European and two Maori men, all with staffs, poised on the edge of a cluster of rocks, looking down into the division of two rivers below them. The river junction has steep sides and is surrounded by rocks, trees and hills on both sides. Possibly a self-portrait, representing the first European visit to this area. The Wairoa River flows northward across Waimea County, Nelson to join the Wai-iti River, the combined stream then continuing as the Waimea River to flow out into the head of Tasman Bay. Inscriptions: bottom left - A D March 1st 1844 The Library has a photograph of a privately-owned pencil drawing by Domett 'Scene on the Wairoa River 1844', of the same view minus the figures (neg 47026 1/2). The date 1844 may be a misreading of 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 197 x 237 mm

Date: 1843

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

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-216-f-127

Description: The Waihou River winding past bush-clad hills which are part of the Kaimai Ranges. Matamata refers to the pa of Te Waharoa on the Waitoa River. In the foreground, one Maori man is standing with a spear, another crouched to his right. Two large canoes are on the river and a row of trees is reflected in the water. Other Titles - Waihou River There is a very similar drawing by Merrett in the Grey Album, British Library, Add. MS 19953, p. 81, plate 233, with title The Waiho, source of the Thames. The British Library version lacks the two figures in the foreground and the line of trees on the far bank of the river, as well as the two canoes on the water. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink and wash, 167 x 259 mm

Date: 1882-1890

From: Walsh, Philip, 1843-1914 :Photograph albums

By: Foy Brothers (Firm); Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Pulman (Firm); Scowen, Charles T, active 1870s-1890s

Reference: PA1-q-255

Description: Album of views in Auckland, Thames, Coromandel and Papanui (all New Zealand), Norfolk Island, Egypt (including the Suez Canal), Aden, Bombay, Ceylon (including Colombo), Victoria (including Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne), Kilkenny, Paris, Bordeaux and London. The photographs were collected by Philip Walsh, and include photographic copies by Josiah Martin of paintings by Walsh himself. The photographers include Josiah Martin (Auckland), Foy Brothers (Thames), Pulman (Auckland), and Charles T Scowen (Colombo). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Brown leather bound album, impressed with black and gold pattern; 35 x 27 cm