Places

Date: 1884

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

Reference: B-006-013

Description: A general view of the Tasman glacier. Mount Blackburn is to the right, and the range in the background shows Mount Haidinger, the tallest peak on the left, and The Minarets on the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Herd, L (Mrs), active 1978

Reference: B-084-018

Description: Shows a view of the two-storeyed homestead and two other closer single-storey buildings. There are cattle and sheep grazing in the paddock to the right, and bare hills in the background. Identified as Cheviot Hills Station by a previous owner. It is possible that the hills are bare as a result of the painting's being unfinished, with the top of the bush line just sketched in. Cf a more wooded image of Cheviot Hill Station, showing [the same?] buildings from a different angle, at NON-ATL-P-0083 (digitised). There is some doubt about the identification of this house as Cheviot Hills. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 243 x 345 mm (sight)

Date: 1869

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

Reference: A-029-044

Description: Shows a pond or stream in the foreground, with a weir and / or a bridge across it, and a road leading away to the left distance. Cattle graze on the wide paddock in the middle distance, and there are ranges of hills in the background. This is probably Mt Hutt Station. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 356 mm.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-007

Description: View from a low hill of an extensive river plain surrounded by hills, with Lake Coleridge and snow-clad mountains in the background and a river to the left. Sheep are grazing on the lower hills to the right and on the flat valley. In the far left foreground is a road, with a dray being pulled by horses towards the station. In the centre left, there are farm buildings with a dray and horses, and a haystack surrounded by fences. In the centre is the homestead, surrounded by trees, with an older building, possibly the original homestead on the lower slopes of the hills to the right of the homestead. Lake Coleridge Station was originally purchased by A.C.Barker and others in 1855. In 1860 it was jointly owned by George Arthur Emilius Ross and Charles John Harper. At the date of this painting, Harper was the sole owner. There is now a hydro station occupying part of the land shown in the picture. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 The Library holds an almost identical second copy of this work at C-033-005 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 457 x 784 mm Provenance: Hung, with a view of Wellington from Kelburn, 1870 (D-022-006) in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1876 - 1877

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Smythson, R, active 1877; Kell, C F, active 1877

Reference: B-175-001

Description: Shows a weir across a stream in the foreground and a farmer and his dog driving a flock of sheep on foot, on the plain in the middle distance. Evening light strikes the Southern Alps in the distance. "Our view is taken from the plains lying at the foot of Mount Alford, a few miles from the station of that name, showing a sheep-washing place in the foreground. This high mountain range forms a grand background to this part of the Canterbury Plains stretching from Mount Somers to Mount Hutt, a part of which is seen to the right of the picture, and at the foot of which the River Rakaia flows". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - CDB 1876 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, image 255 x 356 mm, mounted on text sheet 390 x 509 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-033-005

Description: Shows a South Island high country sheep station, with homestead and outbuildings, with a river flowing past, and mountains in the background. Sheep are scattered over the hill in the foreground, and there is a haystack beyond the stand of trees around the homestead. A horse and cart stand outside the outbuildings to the far left. Almost identical to the work at D-022-007, from which the location has been ascertained. The river is probably the Harper River and the location is probably Lake Coleridge. On acquisition catalogued as [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown?]. Other Titles - [Millbrook, the Wakatipu Valley, Queenstown. Former title] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 455 x 795 mm (sight)

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-017

Description: Shows a view of the Rakaia Valley, with snowy mountains in the background. The station shown is probably Acheron Bank Station. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 260 x 309 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-022

Description: View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed. See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm

Date: 1877

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Kell, C F, active 1877; Walker, E, active 1877

Reference: B-175-003

Description: Shows a view looking along the valley with glimpses of Lake Pearson with ranges in the distance. In the left foreground, a horseman rides down a dirt road. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 255 x 358 mm, mounted on text sheet, 309 x 412 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-006-006

Description: View looking south along the bay towards the cliffs dividing Gore Bay from Port Robinson, taking in Mrs Robinson's cottage (the two-storied cottage built for the wife of William "Ready-Money" Robinson), in 1868). Another building, possibly two, can be seen beyond Mrs Robinson's cottage. A cabbage tree is in the right foreground Inscriptions: Verso - title, date & artist's initials in pencil, lower left; also title in centre with a crossed-out question-mark in front of it. Mrs Robinson's cottage is still standing at Gore Bay. It belonged to the Tweedie family in the 1940s to 1970s Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on cream wove paper, 252 x 354 mm

Date: 1873

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-156-012

Description: Shows a view looking along the valley with glimpses of a lake (probably Lake Pearson) with mountain ranges in the distance. In the left foreground, a horseman rides along a dirt road which curves away at the right, where two figures walk, possibly wearing backpacks. There are signs of shingle slides and erosion on the slope of the bushcovered hill at the left. This is the original watercolour from which the chromolithograph "Craigieburn Valley" was produced for Barraud's "New Zealand graphic and descriptive", 1877. Barraud's associated text refers to 'the lake seen in the distance is another of the beautiful glacier lakes ... takes its name from a sheep station in the vicinity ...'. This makes it most likely to be Lake Pearson. If it is Lake Pearson, the snow-clad mountain beyond it is probably Mount Binzer and the hill alongside is Purple Hill. There is some possibility that the lake is Lake Grasmere, but Grasmere is not flanked by a steep hill as shown in this view Label on backing board (not retained, not in hand of the artist): "Scene on the West Coast Road from Christchurch to Hokitika passing through the Craigburn Valley" Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 253 x 352 mm. Provenance: Previously part of the collection of Sir James Fletcher.