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Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-256-040-a

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-040

Description: Sheep and a cow on fenced pasture in the foreground, a cottage surrounded by bush and cultivated garden in the centre, hills and Mount Taranaki in the background. In the style of New Plymouth artist George Channing Gilbert and possibly from an original drawing by him. Compare with A-457-008-7 (Cottage of a small farmer ...), dated 1860 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p. 209. Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 90 x 154 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-457-008-7

Description: Shows fenced pasture in the foreground with two cows and a human figure, a cottage surrounded by bush and trees in the centre, and with Mount Taranaki and surrounding hills in the distance The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...), possibly after George Channing Gilbert, and published as a lithograph by Vincent Brooks in Hursthouse's 1857 publication, three years before this work is dated. Compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...) On the verso is another pencil drawing of a cottage, with trees, fenced pasture and gardens surrounding; possibly the same farmhouse from a different perspective Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p.209 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cottage of a small farmer / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-021

Description: A small house with front verandah on top of a hill in the middle distance. Mount Egmont can be seen in the background. The land in front is cleared with bush in the foreground. May show Touet's [Touett's] house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata; Mt Egmont in background. Compare very similar (preliminary?] sketch at A-263-022 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on grey paper, 236 x 259 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-018

Description: A detailed drawing of the front view of the house and garden of Jabez Marriage Gibson at Omata, Taranaki. The house has a fenced and cleared hill behind and large trees on both sides. Land has been cleared in front of the house, and a large native tree with epiphytes has been encircled with a fence Identification and attribution from donor, (See TL 3//1/1/4, 10/7/1985) The original drawing for a lithograph with title Swiss Cottage, Omata, published as the frontispiece in Gilbert, Thomas. New zealand, settlers and soldiers, or the war in Taranaki, being incidents in the life of a settler... (London, A W Bennett, 1861) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 189 x 279 mm

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-015

Description: A large two-storied house with gabled windows, alongside another house, on a hill. A fenced garden in front, and trees, possibly pines, on the hill behind the house. Believed to show house of Sir Edward W Stafford, Superintendent of Nelson Province. Compare a photograph by the Tyree brothers, held by Nelson Provincial Museum Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 212 x 298 mm

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-263-014

Description: A farm house on a low rise, a separate building, possibly also a dwelling (with smoke rising from the chimney), poplar trees, cows and crops. Donor suggests same vantage point as for the artist's [Arthur Range from Wakatu] (B-038-022), turned 45 degrees to right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 293 x 208 mm

Date: 1857 - 1863

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913; Gilbert, Raymond Channing, 1915-1993

Reference: A-263-022

Description: A small wooden house, with stumps and a cleared paddock in front, bush behind. May show Touett's house looking east from Allen's Hill, on Hurford Road, Omata. Apparently a preliminary sketch for A-263-021 Identification and attribution from donor Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on grey paper ; pencil 236 x 259 mm