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: 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: 1897

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

Reference: E-380-020

Description: Shows a pathway in Gordon Park, at Upokongaro, Wanganui East, with a line of tall trees on one side and mountains in the distance. The trees may be kahikitea. Flax is in flower at the foot of the trees. Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Gordon Park Wanganui Jny 1897 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1875

From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877

Reference: PUBL-0010-12

Description: A fenced whare with canoes in the water below it in the right foreground, European houses and a church on both sides of the river in the middle distance and five people swimming in the river. Flax, toetoe and other low plants in the foreground and bush-clad hills in the distance Possibly shows Pipiriki. In the accompanying notes to this print Gully states: On the right of the picture, overlooking an old Indian corn garden a large native house, surrounded by palisades is visible ... further up ... the native church, with a few houses and the burial ground ... On the opposite side the remains of a small native settlement ... The two kinds of canoe used by the natives are seen on the river - the regular river canoe with a sharp prow, and the large and more ornamental one, the pitau, commonly used for coasting purposes in both islands Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 376 mm

Date: 1875

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: B-163-007

Description: Shows a stretch of the Wanganui River at Pipiriki, with a wooden fence (or platform) and whare at the far right. Two canoes are pulled up on to the bank in the centre foreground (one with a ornate carved prow), and there is a waka with four figures in it, in the middle of the river. Five figure are bathing in the river off a shallow point. On the bank at the left are further huts and fences or raised platforms. There is a bird, possibly a kingfisher, on a branch in the left foreground, and flax and other plants in the foreground. The original for the chromolithograph titled 'Up-river scene, Wanganui, Wellington' in Gully's book 'New Zealand scenery' (Dunedin, Henry Wise, 1877). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J Gully / 1875 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 384 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1848 - 1857

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: Curios-042-013

Description: Shows view of Wanganui wharf, Christ Church, and Rutland Stockade, framed by cave entrance, with three Maori figures in the foreground. All have rifles in their posession, and are dressed wrapped in cloaks or blankets. Native foliage frames the mouth of the cave Impressed into the wooden frame on either side of the image: W E & F Newton, opticians & globemakers to the Queen, 3 Fleet St Temple Bar London Loosely based on Richard Taylor's 'Wanganui, NZ' (1848), at E-296-q-159, combined with the wood engraving in the Church Missionary Gleaner (1884, p. 83, a re-illustration of an 1850s view) 'The mission station at Wanganui, as seen from a natural cave in the rocks'. The Library also holds Wanganui and pier [?] from cave, New Zealand [185-?], published by W E & F Newton (Curios-021-007), showing the scene in a similar way, by an unknown artist. It would appear that the reverse of the slide is the correct orientation of the image Other Titles - Wanganui and pier [?] from cave, New Zealand [185-?] Inscriptions: [On top edge of wooden frame, in ink] Wanganui and cave New Zealand Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 103 mm diameter, in wooden frame 150 x 203 mm

Date: 1847

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

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-296-q-176

Description: A plain covered with fern and low scrub, bisected by the Wanganui River. Ranges of hills in the background and snow-covered Ruapehu in the distance to the right. The stockade itself is not visible and there is a small Maori canoe on the river. Other Titles - By Col. W. A. MacLeverty Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title and date in ink in the hand of Richard Taylor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 250 mm