Places

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: 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: 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: 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