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Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Templer, Cherie, 1856?-1915

Reference: E-943-q-029

Description: Top image shows a man sitting at the foot of a kauri tree, possibly reading. Bottom image shows two tents pitched in a clearing in dense bush, possibly the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland. Several trees have been chopped down and only stumps remain Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper; watercolour on paper, varying sizes, on album page 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: 1861 - 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-025/026

Description: Recto shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Verso shows bushy island with native huts and canoes. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: [Between 1885 and 1919]

From: Kennedy, William Alexander, 1865-1950 :Photographs of the Southern Alps area

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-0959-15

Description: Views of the Southern Lakes District, interspersed with a few scenes in the North Island taken by the Burton Brothers and Muir & Moodie between about 1885 and 1919. Most of the places mentioned are listed above. Image no. 63 shows a party of men and women at Sandfly Point (Milford Sound) showing some of the women wearing veils over their hats for protection from sandflies; image no. 79 "Phantom canoe as seen on Lake Tarawera" is an artist's impression of the phantom canoe which appeared to a group of tourists on Lake Tarawera on May 31st prior to the eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10th 1886 and which was considered to be a bad omen; image no. 82 shows a collage "No. 1. Maori Land. The portraits are originals - taken from life"; image no. 094 shows a close-up view of the "wire tram" over the Taramakau River; no. 095 shows a logging tramway in the Taupaki Kauri Bush belonging to Matthew Henry Roe, while no. 120 shows his Kauri Point Sawmill, with the paddle steamer "Oregon" in the background; no. 096 shows a self-acting tramway incline at Wairongomai used for gold extraction; nos 104 and 105 show gold dredges, "the Dunedin Gold Dredge" and "Sew Hoy's Dredge". Quantity: 122 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints. Some items retouched with white, showing snow-covered peaks. Finding Aids: Typescript inventory of this box held in Photographic Archive backfile under "Kennedy, William Alexander.".

Date: 1864

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-27-2

Description: View of Queen's Redoubt and grouped tents of a military camp at Pokeno, south of Auckland, seen across lush pastureland. In the foreground is a thick patch of bracken fern and scrub. In the distance, beyond the camp and redoubt, can be seen bush covered hills. Photographed by Daniel Manders Beere in 1864 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 17.4 x 10.5 cm, on album page 28.7 x 22.8 cm

Date: 1840

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

Reference: E-216-f-115

Description: Two sailing ships (the Anna Watson and the Platina) in Auckland Harbour and a small boat with five people in the foreground. Planks of building timber, another rowboat on the foreshore and groups of tents on the higher ground to the left and on the skyline above cliffs. A red flag (the Red Ensign?) flying on a point at the top of the cliffs. The tent closest to the shore belonged to Captain Rough. Johnson did 2 drawings of this scene. The original of the other similar drawing has disappeared, but a copy made by Elizabeth Hocken is in the Hocken Library. It shows the flag being raised, cheered on by a group of onlookers. See 'Mrs Hobson's Album' (1990), p. 147-148 for further details. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 195 mm

Date: 1963

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-320-27-1

Description: View of the grouped tents of a military camp at Drury, Auckland, seen across lush pastureland. In the foreground is a thick patch of bracken fern, and in the distance, beyond the camp, a group of trees. Photographed by Daniel Manders Beere in 1863. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.3 x 10.3 cm, on album page 28.7 x 22,8 cm

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Matthews, W T, active 1920s

Reference: 1/2-000026-G

Description: View of Mansion House Bay looking down on the bay from a vantage point to the north. Mansion House can be seen on the left partially obscured by trees and the wharf is in the middle distance. A tent is erected near the foreshore. A number of boats and yachts are moored in the bay. In the immediate foreground is a yacht with people on board and a sail up. A dinghy is alongside. Photograph attributed to W. T. Matthews, taken in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.T. Matthews Photo.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau No 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Thomas, Beatrice Rosemary, 1911-1996

Reference: C-060-023

Description: Looking out to Manukau Harbour, with a stream (Little Muddy Creek) to the left, winding through bush-clad hills in the area known as Laingholm. In a clearing in the foreground is a tent, with Maori attending to a cooking fire. To their right, a group of Maori is meeting several Europeans on horseback. To the left of the stream, some bush clearing has occurred, with logs lying along the bank in rows. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 200 x 404 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-015

Description: A tent and a group of four men, three Pakeha, one Maori, seated on the ground, having a picnic in a clearing in bush, hills beyond them and water below them. One of the men, seated with his back resting on a tree-trunk, is either drawing or making notes; one, possibly William Cotton, with spectacles, seated on the left is handing out food from a plate; one is reclining on the ground, the fourth, a Maori student, is seated and is being passed food The four men are likely to be students and /or teachers at St John's theological College, Purewa, Auckland. The man wearing glasses and facing the viewer may be William Charles Cotton, while the man showing sketching may be a self-portrait. The location of Potato Bay is not known, but is likely to be in Auckland, possibly near Meadowbank, where Hutton and Cotton were teaching. T. B. Hutton arrived in New Zealand in 1843 and taught at St John's College at Waimate in the Bay of Islands until 1844 when he moved to Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 220 x 280 mm in sketchbook

Date: 1847 - 1841 - 1843

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Scammell, Edward DuBoistel, active 1930s

Reference: A-090-017

Description: Captain Nagle's house on the right, in the middle distance, with other buildings to the left and huts and tents in the foreground. A flag on a hill in the middle distance, a small canoe landing on the shore to the right and a longer Maori war canoe in the water. Compare A-090-018. This view (A-090-017) shows the house in more detail, but lacks the large ship being built as shown in A-090-018. The similarity of the two views appears to be the reason that Chief Librarian Johannes Andersen attributed the work to Bambridge. However the style is not that of Bambridge The drawing is on a page that has been removed from a bound volume, with rust marks down the remains of the gutter. Other Titles - Bambridge, William Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil in Bambridge's hand. In addition there are pencil inscriptions above and below the image in the hand of the Alexander Turnbull Library's Chief Librarian, Johannes Andersen, suggesting the work is by William Bambridge, providing extra information about Nagle, the date of Bambridge's visit and the name of the donor of the work to the Library. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 238 x 205 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-002

Description: A Maori fishing camp in the foreground with two large tents, a drying rack for fish and a long canoe with two sails pulled up at a beach. A further similar canoe in the background along with a smaller canoe. Maori men, women and children busy in the foreground on the beach. Trees close to the waterfront and the cone of Rangitoto, Auckland's dormant volcanic island, in the background. Reproduced as a "Turnbull Library Print", 1977. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Heaphy. Title in ink. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on buff paper 435 x 550 mm

Date: [ca 1900-1905]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

By: Matthews, W T, active 1920s

Reference: 1/2-000025-G

Description: View of Mansion House Bay looking down on the bay from a vantage point to the north. Mansion House can be seen on the left partially obscured by trees and the wharf is in the middle distance. A tent is erected near the foreshore. A number of boats and yachts are moored in the bay. In the immediate foreground on the left are two rowboats. Photograph attributed to W. T. Matthews, taken in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - W.T. Matthews Photo.; Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Kawau No 3 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1887

By: Payton, Edward William, 1859-1944; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-045-002

Description: Shows a bush camp in a clearing with three pitched tents and two Maori women, possibly washing plates, at a stream in the foreground. Tree stumps and tree ferns surround the camp. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nihotopu; Recto - bottom right - E. W. P. 87 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 100 x 130 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull purchased 1890 (with other Payton etchings), as the first works of art to be added to Turnbull's New Zealand and Pacific Collection

Date: 1863

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :First encampment at Drury. 17 July 1863. Naval encampment of landing party from HMS Harrier... 1863; and (on verso) Nukulau Island, Fiji Islands. 1861..

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-025

Description: Shows group of circular tents with soldiers beside most of them. More permanent buildings include the Commisariat store house, and the Government Pier building. Drury was an advanced base for military operations from 1863-64. Supplies and munitions were shipped by cutters from Onehunga across the Manukau Harbour up the Drury Inlet. The 17th of July 1863 was the day of two actions of the Waikato War, one with General Cameron at Koheroa Ranges, the second the ambush at Martin's Farm, near Drury. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - First Encampment at Drury - 17 July 1863 / Naval Brigade Encampment ; Govt Pier at Drury; Military Store Tents, Commissariat / Store House; Recto - beneath image - Naval encampment of landing Party from "HMS Harrier" at Drury. New Zealand / on 17 July 1863 - Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 188 x 317 mm, mounted on paper 304 x 392 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Templer, Cherie, 1856?-1915

Reference: E-943-q-029-2

Description: Shows two tents pitched in a clearing in dense bush, possibly the Waitakere Ranges west of Auckland. Several trees have been chopped down and only stumps remain Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 133 x 182 mm, on album page 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: 1861 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-183-027

Description: Shows Commercial Bay with Wynyard Wharf in the foreground, North Head and Rangitoto in the distance, viewed from Courthouse Hill (now Constitution Hill). A tent-style building sits on the slope of the hill in the foreground to the left (probably Queen St.), with three figures standing in front of it. A number of vessels, including a sailing ship, sailing boats and rowboats or waka, can be seen in the bay. In the foreground on the right can be seen a Norfolk pine amongst other trees and bush, and the smoking brick chimney and part of the roof of a house. The word harbour in the work's title is mis-spelled as habour The library also holds a very similar work by Warre entitled Auckland harbor [1864?] (B-035-017), featuring North Head, Rangitoto Island, ships in the bay and a Norfolk pine, though with less built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Habour, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 316 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase the work was put up for auction at the International Art Centre, Auckland, July 2011 (lot 47, passed in); prior to that, privately owned