Places

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-027

Description: Shows a mission station on the Waikato River, a cottage with a thatched roof, the residence of Mr Benjamin Ashwell. Two groups of Maori are seated outside the picket fence and gate. A small structure, possibly a bell-house is to the right of the house The original for a lithograph illustrating G F Angas' Savage life and scenes (London, 1847) vol 2, facing page 37. A similar watercolour is held by the National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 370 x 546 mm Provenance: Provenance; Capt. A W F Fuller

Date: 1850

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-023

Description: The Waimate North Mission Station, a 2-storied building with dormer windows in its upper storey, and other single-storey houses to its right, plants in tubs to the left, two trees and a woman and child on the front verandah. The buildings to the right are, from left, the carpenters' shop, the Native Teachers' School and the Hospital (on the far right). The copyist, if the last initial is W rather than M, could be a member of the Williams family. Inscriptions: Recto - above and below image: title, date and initials of the copyist (JRW or JRM) along with an indication that the original artist was T. B. H. (Thomas Biddulph Hutton). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 88 x 126 mm on embossed card, 169 x 202 mm Provenance: Collection of Captain A. W. F. Fuller.

Date: 1850

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-024

Description: Two students in academic gowns to the left, one carrying a spear; a woman and two Maori children to the right, in a courtyard outside the fenced area in front of some of the buidings of the Waimate North Mission Station, which is seen from the side as the right-hand building. On the far left is the Infant school, with the College Store immediately to its right and behind it, while the group of buildings in the centre comprise the kitchen, the hall and the English boys' schoolroom. On the right, the mission house itself has the function Breakfast and Mess rooms assigned to it. The copyist, if the last initial is W rather than M, could be a member of the Williams family. Inscriptions: Recto - above and below image: title, date and initials of the copyist (JRW or JRM) along with an indication that the original artist was T. B. H. (Thomas Biddulph Hutton). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 88 x 126 mm on embossed card, 169 x 202 mm Provenance: Collection of Captain A. W. F. Fuller.

Date: 1844

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-021

Description: A flat area alongside the river with tall trees (including cabbage trees) in the background, flax to the right. Two or three thatched houses with groups seated and standing outside and a larger group in or alongside canoes drawn up at the river's edge to the left. Another group seated around a fire. Related copies: Original for the lithograph by J W Giles in Angas, 'Savage Life and Scenes in Aust. and N.Z.' (London, 1847), Vol. II p.28. The lithograph has the title On the Waikato at Kapou. Kopou (or Kapou) are no longer names in use, but Angas is known to have been travelling along the Waikato from near modern Mercer on 28 September and to have reached the area near Lake Waikare and the small Lake Kopuera at Rangiriri by 2 October. The area shown is likely to be close to Lake Kopuera and Rangiriri. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 220 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Captain A W F Fuller, London.