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Date: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1859

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-024

Description: A Maori man seated at the foot of a tree fern in a forest. There is a food storage platform to the right Probably copied from a very similar drawing by William Swainson, Edith Halcombe's father. The artist would have been only 15 at the time this was drawn and is known to have copied her father's work when young. Her preliminary study for this drawing [Tree fern], ref. no. A-188-021-1 is annotated 'Copied from Papas' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated: E S Swainson March 1859 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black conte crayon on tinted paper 202 x 136 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: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Bartlett, Robert Henry, 1842-1911; Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916

Reference: PA1-q-231

Description: Photographs of New Zealand, many taken by Robert Henry Bartlett. Several of these were taken in Nelson, one showing Fairfield House, and one interior view of a room (on page 50) with the pencilled caption "Fell - Nelson". Possibly in what is now named Warwick House which was built by Alfred Fell in 1854. However pages 19 to 31 contain photographs taken by Josiah Martin in the Rotomahana hot springs area including the village of Te Wairoa, and the Pink and White Terraces before the 1886 Tarawera eruption. The album contains 53 pages of which 32 to 49 are empty. Pages 51 to 53 show scenes relating to Florence (Italy), one of the city, and two showing art works (one a relief carving in the Campanile di Giotto, "La logica"). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with maroon cover, leather corners and spine; 33.5 x 30.0 cm

Date: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820]. By courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock [Edinburgh? 1930s]

Reference: A-236-001-a

Description: Rangitoto Island in the background, with a European sailing ship, watched from the left foreground by two Maori men, both with taiaha, standing near a carved gateway. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm Provenance: Donated by Mr B N Lindsay of Wellington, in 1984. Transfers: Transfer from MSS&A 84-145, Macdonald family papers, in 2003..

Date: 1850

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-050-007

Description: Shows view from above Mechanics Bay, looking across to North Head with Rangitoto in the background. A clearing with native bush in the foreground, with a seated and a standing Maori man with a taiaha, a European on horseback, and a bullock-drawn cart. The roofs of several houses are visible below the clearing and at a higher point on the right. Dating: Clarke arrived in New Zealand in 1849. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C Clarke del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing ; pencil 249 x 348 mm

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: 1930 - 1820 - 1939

From: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick 1890-1978 :[Historical incidents in New Zealand in 1820. Edinburgh? ca 1930]

By: Goodwin, Arnold Frederick, 1890-1978

Reference: A-236-001

Description: Rangitoto Island in the background, with a European sailing ship, watched from the left foreground by two Maori men, both with taiaha, standing near a carved gateway. Picture supplied by courtesy John Walker & Sons, Ltd., Distillers, Kilmarnock. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 211 x 157 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

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

Reference: C-025-003

Description: Two European men carrying guns and bags, a Maori man with a gun and a backback, and a dog in the foreground, making their way up a path though tree ferns, cabbage trees and ferns. Three Maori are seated on a low hill in the middle ground and there are volcanic cones in the middle ground and background. One of the group is likely to be the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy [in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white 414 x 540 mm

Date: 1843 - 1881 - 1841

By: Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908; Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: B-107-003

Description: 4 Maori in foreground, lake in middle ground, Tauhara in the distance. Probably copied from the same view drawn in 1841 by Joseph Jenner Merrett and lithographed as the frontispiece of Ernst Dieffenbach's Travels in New Zealand, vol 1 London 1843 (919.31 / DIE / 1843) Title based on Dieffenbach's 'View of Taupo from Te Rapa with Tauhara mountain at a distance where the river Waikato issues from the lake' Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J.B.P. 4.8.81. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 143 x 202 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: 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