Places

Date: [1870s-1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Bragge, James, 1833-1908

Reference: PA1-q-261

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken circa 1870s to 1880s, many by unidentified photographers, with several being taken by James Bragge. One that is clearly by Bragge shows his named carriage "J. Bragge. Photographer. Lambton Quay, Wellington" in a photograph taken on the road on the Featherston side of the Rimutaka Hill (on page 18). The first fourteen pages show views of the Pink and White Terraces, each from varying angles. These are followed by views of Ohinemutu. Many of the photographs are unidentified, including one of a meeting house with a group of Maori men, women and children in front. Painted on the maihi are the words "Mauimua Mauiroto Maui", painted fish and Maui in a boat fishing. On page 26 is a photograph of a painting, possibly by Charles Blomfield, showing Lake Rotomahana with the Pink Terraces on the right and the top of the White Terraces in the foreground, beside which there are two men. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, gold border; 38.0 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1888

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-710

Description: Shows a general view of Whakarewarewa village, probably from sketches made in 1885 and 1886. Shows an arched bridge over the foreground stream, a small hut beside the bridge and about two dozen larger huts and whare. There are numerous steaming vents in the ground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Blomfield 1888 Blomfield visited and sketched in the area in 1875, 1885-1886; see notes in Dunbar Sloane auction catalogue for 29 August 2001, page 22. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 900 x 492 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously listed with the International Art Centre, Auckland, in 1975 and 1976 This may have been one of the works mentioned in Blomfield's Pictures Sales Record Book in the Auckland Museum, where it is said that a Blomfield oil painting of Whakarewarewa sold on 12 April 1888 (measuring 12" x 36") to an Australian collector W R Wilson of Chetwynd, Melbourne; while another version was sold in London in 1888.