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Ffitch, Henry, 1840?-1918 :Christchurch 1851. [1850s or 1860s?].
Date: 1851
By: Ffitch, Henry, 1840-1918; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000
Reference: G-241
Description: Shows a view over the Avon River towards the Port Hills, with the houses of Dr Alfred Barker, Mr Guise Brittan and the Lands Office all on Oxford Terrace, close to the Worcester Street Bridge. Dr Barker's house is shown tarred. There is a flag flying outside the Lands Office. A more distant building is the Lyttelton Hotel. A bullock team waits by the riverside, and there is a horse and rider further away on Oxford Terrace. The near side of the river has flax, and a cabbage tree at the right. The view is similar to an original sketch by Dr A C Barker done in 1851, a version of which was reproduced in the Illustrated London news, volume 22, no 616 (9 April 1853), page 268. As the artist is thought to have been only 11-12 years old in 1851, the painting is probably done from memory, or copied from one of Dr A C Barker's sketches, or a reproduction of one of Barker's sketches in the Illustrated London news. There is another version of a very similar view by Ffitch or Fitch, in the Canterbury Museum, also an oil painting. It includes a tent, and has no horse. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 500 x 330 mm. Provenance: Previously the work had been in a farmhouse on the West Coast.
[Hodgkins, William Mathew], 1833-1898 :In the Wainui Valley, Akaroa, March 1868.
Date: 1868
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000
Reference: A-306-017
Description: Shows a view looking down a gentle slope between two tall trees, towards a small house with its chimney smoking. At the right, a man descends the path going towards the house, carrying a bundle of firewood over his left shoulder. There is a felled tree trunk lying at the left, and a wooden fence at the extreme right. Attributed to William Hodgkins on the basis of information that he was in the area in 1868, and that he uses similar colours, similar dark outlining of rock edges on a lighter ground, and similar misting effect by watering down the pigment. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 202 x 316 mm