Places

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-A

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: 1883 - 1970 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of paintings and a carving in the Waikato Art Museum, London Street, Hamilton, New Zealand. [1970s]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: E-278-q-057-B

Description: Reproduction of Charles Blomfield's painting `Maori village at Rotorua' (1883) depicting dwellings and hot springs (with steam rising from them). There is a large weeping willow on the right and a lake in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 124 x 184 mm

Date: 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: C-030-007

Description: Shows a general view looking at the White Terraces from the side, with the islands of Lake Rotomahana seen in the middle distance. There is a canoe containing five figures in the still water in the foreground. Previously attributed to Charles Blomfield. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board in 1971 Other Titles - Rotomahana Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 519 x 715 mm

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: 1886 - 1986

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: Eph-E-ARTS-1986-03

Description: Shows a reproduction of Charles Blomfield's "Top of Tarawera 1887" from a private collection. The verso lists the exhibition catalogue items. Two copies held Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 515 x 840 mm.

Date: 1875-1876, [1884]

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: qMS-0248

Description: Includes article by Mrs F C Yeoman describing a visit the Blomfields made to the Pink and White Terraces in 1883 Source of title - Supplied by library Quantity: 1 volume(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (carbon) (34 cm, blue linen)

Date: 1882

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-633

Description: A pre-eruption view of Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake) shows the Maori village of Kaiteriria. In the left foreground a group of Maori is seated on the ground beside a raised storehouse (pataka), with several other pataka and whare further away. There is a stake fence between the pataka and the whare, as well as another pataka on the headland reaching away into the lake. Three figures sit in a waka with a small rectangular sail at lower right. The island or headland at the far right has a flat top which may be a pa site. There are bare steep hills on the far side of the lake. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - C Blomfield. 1882 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 420 x 672 mm (sight)

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: C-033-002

Description: The dramatic volcanic eruption of June 10, 1886, a night scene with the mountain in the background, Lake Tarawera in the middle ground and several Maori dwellings and fleeing figures in the foreground. Blomfield was not present at the eruption of the volcano, so the image is imaginary, or taken from the description of eye-witnesses Detached from its original published form, as a fold-out plate at the back of E Wakefield's New Zealand illustrated. (1889) Extended Title - From: New Zealand Illustrated by Edward Wakefield. (Wanganui, A. D. Willis, 1889). Final folded plate. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 384 x 533 mm

Date: 1889 - 1885

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926; Grice, Elizabeth Chudleigh, 1887-1960

Reference: G-366

Description: View to one side of the Pink Terraces, looking across them towards Lake Rotomahana, with the White Terraces also visible in the background. Dated 1889, but copied by the artist from his own paintings done before 10 June 1886, when the eruption of Mount Tarawera destroyed the Pink and White Terraces Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1985, as one of three oils of the Pink and White Terraces by Blomfield. Edition of 3000 sold out ca 1995. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed and dated Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 508 x 762 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: G-459

Description: Ohinemutu village in the foreground with steam vents rising amongst Maori dwellings. Lake Rotorua beyond and Mokoia Island rising in the distance with the far shore of Rotorua Lake beyond the island. The reference to Hinemoa and Tutanekai is to a Maori legend. Reproduced as a Turnbull Print, 1970s Other Titles - Roto Rua from Maori Village of Ohinemutu ... Mokoia, where Hinemoa swam to join her lover Tutanekai Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 406 x 685 mm

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.