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Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025-b/027-b

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025/027 & and A-061-025/027 a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025/027

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025-a & b and A-061-027-a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 1970 - 1868 - 1888

By: Avon Fine Prints; Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; O'Brien, George, 1821?-1888

Reference: C-061-025-a/027-a

Description: Port Chalmers, 1868 , by George O'Brien; Dunedin, 1888, by George O'Brien; Dunedin 1883, from Black Jack's Point, by C. Aubrey, 1883. Note on each print: `Reproduced by courtesy of the Otago Early Settlers' Association Inc., Dunedin, N.Z'. Issued with sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken Printed by Pictorial Publications, Ltd., Hastings. Issued at $7 per print ($18 the set) No 4 of a limited edition of 1000. Same as C-061-025 & b and A-061-027-a & b Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs. maximium size 13.4 x 23 in on sheet 19.9 x 28 in.

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-018

Description: Shows a view of a farmstead and outbuildings, on the higher side of the road in the foreground. A child supervises two cows entering a farm gateway through the mud, for milking, while two other cows await them near a shed. There is a formal garden in front of the house, and the trees around the homestead are pine and yew or cypress. The background hills are partially covered in bush. The small cottage immediately to the right of the main house is probably the one that later became 'Pumpkin Cottage', the centre for a group of artists. According to J M Kenneally's "Upper Hutt; reflections from the past", "The Cotter family initally acquired one of the original 100 acre sections in the valley [and] later purchased a further 880 acres which were sold in 1926 to St Patrick's College". Apart from the modern framer's label, there is as yet no evidence to confirm whether this painting shows a house on the St Pat's site or the earlier site. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey / 1890 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 370 x 560 mm (sight) Provenance: Previous owner until 1986: Mr R. Flynn, Petone.

Date: 1894

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-116-016

Description: View shows the township of Wanganui across the river at the left, where two ships are anchored by the shore. The river is spanned by a long bridge with six supporting uprights visible. In the right foreground are a figure on horseback and a man and woman standing on a riverside road. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 393 mm (sight) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1887

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Dawson, William, 1852-1923

Reference: C-126-007

Description: A covered wagon, drawn by six horses entering a wide river from a stony bank. A lone man on horseback and a dog are swimming half way across the river, ahead of the wagon. On the far side of the river is an empty plain, with tall hills in the background. Jacobs River has reverted to its Maori name, Aparima Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ford Jacob's river [nr, i.e. near?] Wrey's Bush. C. Aubrey. 1887. [in black brushpoint]; Backing board verso - bottom left - Belonged to Grandpa William Dawson "May Villa" Dunedin. To Ian & Ray [?] From Mother For Nov. 22.d 1947. 33 Drivers Road, Maori Hill, Dunedin.; Backing board verso - top right - V5127 BSSS [Backing board discarded after conservation of the work] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 297 x 523 mm Provenance: Dawson family, Dunedin, early 1900s to 1940s and possibly later.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm

Date: 1879

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Smith, Dennison Urban, -1892

Reference: C-126-010

Description: Shows the settlement at Bravo Island in Paterson Inlet, with the farm of Dennison Urban ("Yankee") Smith at extreme left, and the house of the Portuguese whaler Manuel Gomez in the centre with three figures in the doorway. There is cleared land in foreground, cows at pasture, a boatshed (to the left of Smith's beached boat - the "Bravo"), a cowshed at the extreme right, a sandspit at the extreme right beside the inlet in the right background. Two clay cliffs on the far bank are reflected in the water. The details listed are taken from John Hall-Jones "Stewart Island explored" 1994 - ATL has at NZ&P 993.1 HAL 1994. 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. Painting made by Aubrey in return for hospitality of the Smith family. For more information about "Yankee" Smith, see AT 3/1/2, 1 July 1976. Other Titles - River settlement Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey 1879 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 340 x 515 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at auction by Dennison Smith, a direct descendant of Yankee Smith, at Devereux and Culley's auction rooms, Mt Eden, in 1983. Prior to that, the work had been in the family of Yankee Smith on Stewart Island. The painting had been given to Yankee Smith by the artist in return for hospitality

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-014-013

Description: Shows a view looking towards Wellington Harbour from the lower northern slopes of Kelburn, with part of the Bolton Street Cemetery at the left, and three horses grazing in the right foreground. Beyond the cemetery is the Parliamentary Library, with the spire of St Mary's Hill Street at the far left. In the centre are the old Parliament Buildings, and the wooden Government Buildings are on the right. Old St Pauls is beyond the Parliamentary Library, the Terrace Congregational Church (corner Bowen Street and the Terrace) is in the centre, and St Andrews-on-the-Terrace is at the far right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 440 x 750 mm.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-025

Description: Shows Australian squadron (Orlando, Calliope, Opal, Raven, Lizard & Rapid) in Wellington harbour, Jan. 1889 View includes The Terrace on the left, Te Aro Street in the foreground, Willis Street with St John's and St Peter's spires. The gasworks are also prominent on the shore, towards Oriental Bay on the right. The view is very similar to the central part of the work at D-032-002, and the scale of the drawing is very similar. Like D-032-002, "Wellington from Brooklyn", but unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Reproduced 1979 as one of ATL Endowment Trust prints Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1889 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-038-007

Description: Shows the rocky outcrops in the sea off the coast at Island Bay, Wellington. Taputerangi Island is in the sea in the background Possibly drawn from the home of Robert Martin, of The Parade, Island Bay. The view from his house, (still standing by 2010) is very similar to this view. He was a painter and paperhanger, and stockist of artists' materials in his Manners Street shop Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 190 x 283 mm

Date: 1885

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-012-008

Description: Shows a view of a corner of Lake Wanaka, with a small paddle steamer approaching from the left towards a jetty at the right. The steamer flies a flag from both its mast and stern, and around one dozen gentlemen and lady passengers stand aboard. The smoke from the single funnel floats back to the left and the boat's wake extends past the picture's left edge. The jetty at right is piled with bales and a quantity of timber, and a man and a woman with a parasol are standing on the jetty. In the background are the mountain ranges around Wanaka. Four gulls fly in the right foreground. Other Titles - Lake Wanaka Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 338 x 498 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased from a Christchurch estate. The note on the backing board adds that the SS Theodore was built for Theo Russell and Captain Hedditch, and that Tom Creig was the engineer. "He [Tom Creig?] gave this painting to Sam McSkimming as a parting gift when S. McSkimming & family left Pembroke to go to Arrowtown, then a busy goldmining town in 1900" Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1891

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-011

Description: Shows houses in the small town of Eketahuna in the middle distance, behind a large depression, around which a road has been made. Horses graze in the right foreground, a horse and carriage travels from the right towards the town, and in the right distance is a white church or school building. Some land clearing has been done in the depression which has some tree stumps and trunks lying on the ground. File prints of other versions identify the horse and carriage as the stage coach from Alfredton. One of several versions of the same view, each with minor variations (See other file prints in Drawings & Prints, for versions held elsewhere). Reproduced in colour, facsimile sized, as the cover illustration for Christopher Aubrey (fl 1876-1906). The Alexander Turnbull Library Prints 1979. (Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1979). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1891 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 352 x 587 mm

Date: 1878

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Pennell, Charles, active 1962; Bowmar, Keith, active 1962

Reference: C-158-001

Description: Shows a view of a small South Otago township, with a large house, probably a hotel, at the left. Beyond are smaller buildings beside with a steam train is moving. In the right background is the Presbyterian church. A river (probably the Kaitangata Creek, possibly at the confluence with the Clutha River) flows by on the right occupying much of the right foreground. There are green hills, bare of tree cover in the background, with a road that climbs up and across to the left centre. At the far right is a drilling rig, probably for use in the extraction of coal. The date on the verso of the painting is 1878. The railway first came to Kaitangata in 1876. The first Bridge Hotel burned down before the end of 1877, and rebuilding was not complete until after October 1879. (See Irene Sutton and Bill Proctor, in "History of Kaitangata, 1800s-2004" page 386-387). Aubrey is known to have painted sites after the time he visited them, so it is possible that the hotel shown is the first hotel, burned in 1877. This would tie in with the statement on the verso, that the painting was made from an original photograph (although the whereabouts of the photograph is unknown). But it may be in conflict with the statement on page 121 of Sutton and Proctor, that the scene shows the Bridge Hotel after it had been enlarged towards the end of the 1870s. This may mean an inital enlargement before the 1877 fire, or a partial rebuild in 1878 or 1879. Note on verso states that this is a "painting off the original photo, and where this tavern now stands, and was given by Mr Charlie Pennell in 1962". This statement was written by "Keith Bowmar, first manager of the first tavern under the Clutha Licensing Trust in Kaitangata, 1962". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated]; Verso - top centre - C Aubry 1878 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on board 382 x 478 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1894

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-116-014

Description: Shows a stretch of the Whanganui River at Aramoho, with a large two-storeyed house amongst trees and lawn on the far side. The house is probably Sedgebrook (or Sedge Brook) Grange. Two girls walk along a riverside path in the foreground, and on the river six adults and one or two children pass by in a rowboat, near a flight of wooden steps leading down to the river. Probably shows Sedgebrook Grange, the house of Major John Nixon. The original Sedgebrook Grange burned down and was rebuilt in 1882 Other Titles - Aramoho, Whanganui Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey / 1894 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 270 x 440 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased by the vendor in New Zealand in the 1970s or early 1980s (information from International Art Centre)

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-140-006

Description: Shows a general view of Milford Sound with Mitre Peak and The Lion. Date on backing board suggested as 1890, although it is not in the artist's hand, but a later inscription. Other Fiordland and Milford Sound views by Aubrey are dated 1888, with one dated 1905. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signature - cropped] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper stuck to card, 288 x 500 mm (cropped) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1891

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-140-002

Description: Shows a scene outside the wooden two-storeyed hotel building, with a coach drawn by four horses standing at the left and several passengers with luggage outside the front of the hotel. In the centre a man leads a pack horse. At the right of the hotel, two aproned maids stand with two men; one of the maids is working a waterpump. The stables building at the rear has a sign "Stables". Two swagmen approach the hotel at the far right foreground. This hotel is depicted from another angle in other views of Eketahuna by Aubrey - eg. C-030-011, C-030-026, and C-030-027. An inscription on the reverse suggest that this work was originally sold as part of an art union: 'Mr Parsons picture, 15/-. Two tickets 5/-'. The artist was known to sell a number of his watercolours through art unions, often advertised in the local newspaper Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - 'Mr Parsons picture 15/-. Two tickets 5/- [in pencil: probably an indication that the watercolour was once in an art union] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 338 x 509 mm

Date: 1896

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-014-014

Description: A view looking south-west over New Plymouth in 1896, showing houses and streets of the period. The Roman Catholic Convent and St Joseph's Church are at the right. In the distance is Paritutu and the Sugarloaf Islands. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 433 mm. Provenance: Previously in a private collection, Auckland.