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Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-016/017

Description: An extensive view from a high point over fenced and partially cleared land, with a house and shed, and a stream to the right, the Waitemata Harbour in the background. Possibly the Tamaki area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 137 x 310 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-012

Description: Looking along a small curving beach line with two Maori walking along the beach, part of a fence in the left foreground, probably in front of a house and a Maori canoe with a sail approaching the shore. There are trees growing from a cliff behind the beach and a small yacht is in the next bay. The view may be of Judges Bay Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 187 x 235 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-346-2-026/027

Description: A view from near the Mount Peel homestead, taking in the Church of the Holy Innocents to the right, the woolshed and other buildings in the middle distance and looking towards the Rangitata River and the cliffs on the opposite side of the river. Cabbage trees and flax on slopes in the foreground and plantings around the church, possibly of yew trees. The churchyard is enclosed in a fence and garden The church was designed by Edward Ashworth, earlier resident in Auckland as an artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 356 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-026/027

Description: A double-page spread, with on the left and continuing to the right, 'Tamaki settlements' (St Helier's) showing Mr Porter's house, Signal Mt (Mount Victoria) and North Hd Waitemata Harbour. The Roman Catholic Church at Sydney occupies the right two-thirds of the right-hand page. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 139 x 426 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-023

Description: A study of a mature kauri with epiphytes on its trunk and lower branches Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 215 x 135 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-025

Description: A view across how hills, possibly with Auckland Harbour to the left. Several farms and houses with surrounding land are visible. Major Bunbury's dwelling is identified in the right foreground. Shows St Helier's See: Jackson, Elizabeth T. 'Delving into the post...part 6, pp 4 ff (q993.1). See also Una Platts, The lively capital, (Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1971, p 91. The house called Glen Orchard, still stands with a 2nd storey. Bunbury left New Zealand in 1844, leasing his farm to Thomas Cleghorn. In 1849, he sold it to General William Taylor, naming the estate Glen Orchard. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 63 x 135 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-010

Description: View from a hill near the water's edge, looking down towards pohutukawa, with a small group of Maori dwellings at the water's edge, alongside a small stream. Across the Manukau harbour can be seen the Huia area. The settlement at Titipai was about one mile west of the kainga of Awhitu, which in turn was about two miles west of James Hamlin's Church Missionary Station at Orua, at Manukau Entrance, the southern end of Manukau Heads Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Manakau Harbour Christmas Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink, with Xmas 1843 in pencil upper right sky area. The paper (cream wove) has a blind embossed stamp, lower right, marked 'Extra fine Bristol' inside an oval leaf-pattern. Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and sepia wash 183 x 227 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Auckland City Art Gallery

Reference: E-279-q-002

Description: Reproduced as a Christmas card from the watercolour in the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on card, 115 x 212 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-031-a

Description: The right-hand side of a panoramic view of the waterfront at Russell (Kororareka) with houses, shops, etc clearly outlined. Pompalier House is in the centre of the section, above the beachline, with its garden in front of it, sloping down the hill. The American flag is flying towards the left by the home of the American Consul, James Reddy Clendon. For the full image see E-042-030-a/031-a Other Titles - Russell Other Titles - Kororareka Sketched on the way to Sydney from Auckland, January 1844 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 36 x 415 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: B-064-048

Description: Looking down from the hills above Auckland towards the embryo town, with the harbour, the North Shore and Rangitoto in the distance The preliminary sketch for a watercolour in Hobson Album (E-216-f-104) Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 234 x 383 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-034/035

Description: Looking across the harbour towards Manaia and Bream Head. There is a rocky shore in the foreground, with trees to the left. A small sailing vessel and a rowboat are on the water Sketched on the way to Sydney from Auckland January 1844 Other Titles - Whangarei Harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 137 x 303 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-020

Description: A front view of a single-storeyed house with a path leading through a garden to the front door. To the left, a man stands alongside a seated dog, near a large barrel. Tree, possibly manuka or kanuka, surround the house. The house is that of James Baber, an architect Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 140 x 217 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-042

Description: View from the sea, with the coastal features of Auckland stretched out, one above the other Other Titles - Mount Sketched on Ashworth's voyage from Sydney to China, before he returned to England Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash 60 x 315 mm

Date: 1842 - 1843

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

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-216-f-015

Description: Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, on paper, 85 x 153 mm. Provenance: Part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel.

Date: 1842

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-013

Description: View looking along the beachline to the left with trees and a bank, the silhouette of Rangitoto in the background Another sketch in the sky area of a headland is marked 'Whitipaku' or possibly 'White....' Inscriptions: Recto - top right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 190 x 310 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-022

Description: Shows three Maori. One person is removing lice from the hair of another. Another person, probably the woman of the title is standing. On verso of: A208/21 Waingaroa is known as Raglan Harbour Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Raglan Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December, 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink and watercolour 84 x 214 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-001

Description: Four canoes pulled up on a beach, one shown with a figurehead and with three Maori men seated in it. To the left are two small cottages, one of raupo, the other with a window, front door and bench outside, on which a man is seated. Both cottages have chimneys. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Onehunga, Manukau Probably sketched at the beginning of Ashworth's trip up the Waikato & Waipa rivers in December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 151 x 155 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-036/037

Description: A two-part panoramic view of the the coastline within the Bay of Islands. Tippahi Island, Rangihoua, Mr King's house and the associated chapel are identified. Sketched on the way to Sydney from Auckland January 1844 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash 50 x 415 mm (in 2 parts)

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-028/029

Description: Two images occupying a double page spread. On the left is a view along the coastline with houses on the flat land near the shore, bush and a large cabbage tree on the right. Mr Newmans, W. Spain Esq., The Bastion, Signal Mt. of Auckland Harbour and North Shore are identified. The men's names are associated with two houses shown in the foreground, 'The bastion' is Bastion Rock at the foot of a headland in the middle distance and Signal Mount is Mount Victoria, on the North Shore. On the right, occupying two thirds of the right-hand page is 'Harbour Shore', with four Maori seated with three dogs beneath a large pohutukawa tree, probably close to Auckland Harbour Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 136 x 250 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-026

Description: Looking along a beach towards cliffs and a rocky point. On the left is a fence with a house identified as 'Mr Porters'. Shows the home of W. Field Porter at St Heliers The drawing occupies the left side of a double-page spread and continues onto the right. On the far right (page 27) is 'The Roman Catholic Cathedral and establishment, Sydney'. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 136 x 205 mm