Places

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :Album. [1860s?]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: E-297-026

Description: The edge of the lake, with an eel trap in the shallows, several small fishing canoes pulled up at its edge, Maori on shore with small huts, the palisades of a pa beyond in bush. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - title; Recto - bottom right - C. D. B. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash with Chinese white 97 x 149 mm glued to album page

Date: [ca 1860s-1880s]

From: Rhodes, Beatrice, fl 1978 :Photographs

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874; Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905

Reference: PA1-q-193

Description: Album owned by Joseph Rhodes containing photographs and sketches and ephemera dated between 1860s-1880s of New Zealand and overseas. Includes photographs of Hawkes Bay dated between 1860s-1870s. Many of the sketches were drawn by Alfred Chapman, one section containing an illustrated tale "The life and adventures of Thomas Pinniger" (p 34a-d). On p 34b Governor Eyre is pictured lower left at Government House, Wellington. There are two photographs of paintings by Charles Barraud (one of Te Aro Flat, City of Wellington (p 68), and one of Wellington Heads (p 104). Many of the photographs of the Hawke's Bay area show the houses on various sheep stations, including Clive Grange Station, and Spring Hill Station (Joseph Rhodes), Maraekakaho Station (Donald Mclean), Woburn Station (Thomas Purvis Russell), Mount Herbert Station (Henry Robert Russell), and Mangatarata Station (Donald Gollan). There is also one of George Fannin's house in Napier, one of the Reverend Hamlin's mission station at Wairoa, and one of The Grange (Wellington home of Joseph Rhodes's brother William Barnard Rhodes).Others in the area are related to military encampments, barracks, stockades, and mission stations. On page 31 there is a photograph of "The great peace meeting, 1863", and one entitled "Whaka & tribe". On page 53, the caption reads "Donald McLean Esq. Superintendent, Hawkes Bay, purchasing Wairoa from the natives, 18[55?]." There are many photographs, postcards and tourist scenes taken in Egypt, Ireland, Norway, Italy and Australia. The Australian scenes show views in Queensland, including Australian Aborigines fishing for dugong, the Railway Mortuary Chapel at the Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney (subsequenlty sold to a church group, dismantled and rebuilt in North Ainslie in Canberra) and views in the Maryborough area. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown leather embossed cover 29 x 23 cm, with 79 leaves

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-006-022

Description: A rocky seafront with a faint indication of the palisades of a pa and of pa buildings on the left and the mountains of the South Island visible across the sea. The title: Paraoa-nui, near Pencarrow, Port Nicholson, 1865 comes from the title on a very similar watercolour in Auckland Museum; however the position of Tapuaenuku and the other South Island peak over Cook Strait, and the presence of a substantial pa, (not mentioned by early travellers on the path from Eastbourne to the Wairarapa via Pencarrow) may suggest that this view is from Oteranga Bay, south of Cape Terawhiti, according to Mr Frank Fitzgerald, historian of the Eastbourne area. Other Titles - [Oteranga Bay, near Cape Terawhiti. 1865?] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 203 x 336 mm

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Frederick Revans (Sir), 1849-1936

Reference: C-007-007

Description: The preliminary watercolour for Barraud's more finished version ("Wellington from Brooklyn" C-007-011) showing Te Aro flat with Waitangi Creek meandering through it on the right, a low hill in the foreground (the lower slopes between Mount Cook and Brooklyn) with Te Aro Pa visible on the shore to the right and houses, businesses and churches, more densely settled closer to Clay Point, the cliff face by the sea on the left, with Plimmer's Ark visible at its foot at the water's edge. The larger building near the waterfront may be the Maori Chapel. The road passing diagonally across Te Aro flat slightly right of centre is most likely to be Cuba Street. Thorndon is visible in the distance on the left. The large church on the left is St Peter's in Willis Street. Reproduced in Louis E. Ward's 'Early Wellington' (Wellington, 1928), opp. p. 302 ('in the possession of Sir F. R. Chapman'), labelled 'Te Aro 1850' (it is actually dated 1852), with the caption 'From Mount Cook. St Peter's Church, Boulcott St, and Clay Point are on the left of the Maori Chapel, Te Aro Pa, Swamp and Waitangi Creek are to the right' Other Titles - Wellington from Mount Cook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil on grey paper, 355 x 601 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Sir Frederick Revans Chapman.

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 1850 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Clere, Richard H, active 1966

Reference: G-003

Description: Shows a waka with four figures and a dog in it, floating on water close to the near shore on which flax bushes are growing. There are two pukeko in the centre foreground. On a promontory or island in the lake or inlet, there is a group of whare, with smoke from a cooking fire rising. Beyond are hills, with the distant range tinged pink in the morning or evening light. Location unknown. The promontory may be an island, and could possibly be around Lake Rotomahana or Tarawera. The landforms are very similar to a view 'Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana' by J G Mitford, a watercolour owned by Rotorua Museum Cleaned and waxed in July 1986 by John Slingsby Barraud, grandson of the artist, Taupo, New Zealand. Attribution from previous owners. Other Titles - [Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 455 x 610 mm. Provenance: Given to Richard H Clere in 1966, by his parents.

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-011

Description: View from the lower slopes between Brooklyn and Mount Cook, with cows, a herdsman and his dog on the road in the foreground. On the right lie the swamps of Te Aro, with Te Aro Pa visible along the foreshore, along with scattered houses. To the left of the pa area, the road passing diagonally across the plain is probably Cuba Street. The most prominent building on the foreshore is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. The cliff at the water's edge to the left is Clay Point with Plimmer's Ark visible moored in the water at its base. On the far left in the plain area, the large church building is St Peter's, Willis St. Thorndon is in the background to the left, with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. The preliminary watercolour for this work is located at C-007-007 with title 'Te Aro and Thorndon, 1852'. It is dated 1852 and lacks the cows, herdsman and dog of C-007-0011, but shows more of the swamps of Te Aro, with Waitangi Creek meandering through them. The building details are less clear in the preliminary work. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1975 as part of the Colonial Wellington Series. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 508 mm

Date: 1851

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: G-596

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and the harbour from the ridge above Mt Cook, towards the hills on the western side of the harbour. It shows the flat area of Te Aro with Te Aro Pa close to the shore and other buildings in the foreground. Plimmer's Ark is on the waterfront to the left just beyond the Clay Point cliff. The large church building on the left is St Peter's, Willis Street, and the large building on the waterfront is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. Thorndon is in the background with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. Watercolours by Barraud, related to this view, but dated 1852, are at C-007-011 and C-007-007. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / 1851 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 370 x 652 mm (sight) Provenance: It was sold at the International Art Centre by a private vendor who purchased it in Sydney from the estate of Germain Curvens (1926-1997), a Sydney art dealer who had reportedly owned the work for 30-40 years.

Date: [ca 1860]

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Trafford, Benjamin William Rawson, 1824?-1891

Reference: D-040-003

Description: Shows a scene on the Whanganui River. Shakespeare Cliff is prominent on the right, and Mount Ruapehu is visible in the distance. The Wanganui settlement is nestled into the hills in the middle ground, and the Rutland and York stockades are visible on the hill above the town. In the foreground is a group of Māori, comprising six adults or young adults, and one child, who would appear to be Pākehā. They are grouped as half standing, half being seated. There is much evidence of European clothing being worn by almost all the figures, with a woman on the right in full European dress complete with hat. The child in the group stands close to her and is possibly her own child, though his complexion is pale. The Māori man on the left has full facial tā moko, and holds the reins of a horse, which stands grazing. The horse would appear to belong to the woman in European dress, as it carries a side-saddle. The other man in the scene is dressed wearing a blanket and bare feet, and holds a kete, staff and eeling pot. Beyond the group can be seen the pallisades of Putiki Pā, beside which graze a half a dozen cattle. A number of vessels can be seen on the river, including a schooner and a double-sailed waka. The artist of this work is uncertain, after close comparison against works by other artists including John Alexander Gilfillan, Richard Aldworth Oliver, and Charles Decimus Barraud was undertaken. Benjamin Rawson Trafford has also been suggested as the artist, but no other work in watercolours by him is known for stylistic comparison. He was in Wanganui between ca 1847 and 1863 and had a Māori wife and child, possibly the subjects of this watercolour. He may also have been the earliest owner of the work and was the step-ancestor of the English vendor Other Titles - Whanganui. Benjamin William Rawson Trafford Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and Chinese white on paper, 482 x 713 mm Provenance: Prior to auction, in a private collection, England by descent from a step-ancestor, Benjamin Rawson Trafford, an early settler in Whanganui, to Lady Rosalind Bodington Processing information: Description updated 26 September 2023 following information provided by a staff member, as part of reparative description work.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-029-058

Description: Shows a view of the lake with Motutawa Island in the centre. There is a waka pulled up on the shore of the promontory at the right, and some dwellings and palisades or fencing, suggesting a pa site on the promontory. There is a road along the hillside in the right distance. Other Titles - Lake Rotokakahi Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 292 mm

Date: 1875 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-063

Description: Shows several whare in centre foreground, a bridge at right, and the impressive Pohaturoa Rock in centre background. Possibly the original for the wood engraving 'Pohaturoa' by C. D. Barraud published in his New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) p. 19. The accompanying text reads "Pohatura, or the Great Rock ... which rises 650 feet abruptly from the plain on the banks of the Waikato near Niho-o-te Kiore, is a celebrated pa of the Ngatiraukawa tribe". Date uncertain; may be earlier or later than indicated. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 340 mm.