Places

Date: 1877

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-060-016

Description: A palisaded whare to the right, with canoes below. Houses on both sides of the river and a small church. The river and hills in the background. The village shown may be Pipiriki A colour variant print of plate 12 in Gully, J. New Zealand scenery. London, 1877 Extended Title - From: Gully, J. New Zealand scenery. Dunedin, Wise, 1877, plate 12 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 280 x 375 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm)

Reference: B-051-015

Description: Shows a number of block-houses grouped round the settlement. Mt Egmont is in the distance and the sea in the foreground. The perspective of the foreground is a bird's-eye view. It includes the houses, St Mary's church, and other buildings of New Plymouth After a watercolour by John Gully in Archives New Zealand. See Ellis, E. M. & D. G. Early prints of NZ (Christchurch, 1972), item no. 630 The majority of these forts were never built Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, 221 x 340 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-018-013

Description: Shows cathedral, windmill, houses, harbour and Boulder Bank, viewed from a low hill to the east of the town Supplied title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 406 x 508 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Watt, B G, -1992?; Gully, Harry Vincent, 1850-1926

Reference: A-178-018

Description: Shows a section of Nelson Harbour in foreground, with hillside behind the part of Wakefield Quay that runs between present-day Victoria Road and Richardson Street. The scene would have been sketched from Haulashore Island, part of which can be seen in the right foreground. In 1900 Harry Vincent Gully was to own a house in this area, possibly the gabled one in the centre, which is redrawn in the left foreground. Date based on comparison with photos of same area. H. V. Gully was a solicitor and town clerk in Nelson, not listed in Wise's 1866-69, is listed in 1880 as living in Trafalgar Street. In 1900 is listed in Wakefield Quay, which is the road around the section of Nelson Harbour shown in this sketch. His house in 1900 may be the double-gabled house on the hill, re-drawn in the foreground. This part of Wakefield Quay is between present day Victoria Road and Richardson Street. c.f. Tyree photo 1189 (191 10 x 8) Supplied title. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Stones on beach purply grey [.?.] warm grey light; Verso - centre - H. V. Gully Gold Matt Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and wash, 191 x 333 mm. Provenance: From the estate of B. G. Watt (see AT 10/14, 14 May 1992). Once owned by H. V. Gully (see matting and framing instructions on verso).

Date: 1888

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: A-274-071

Description: Scene shows a figure in a canoe passing by a bushy headland. In the distance at the left is a group of buildings with a hill behind them. Cable Bay was the site of the first telegraphic cable between New Zealand and Australia, opened 1876. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on thick card, 157 x 300 mm

Date: 1866

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-017

Description: Shows mill buildings and oast houses at the left, on the banks of the Maitai River, Nelson foreshore, in golden light. Dr Bush's windmill can be seen on the opposite bank of the river, along with houses The windmill, on Miller's acre, was burned down in 1867. It was located on present-day Trafalgar Street, diagonally opposite the Nelson Chief Post Office, and was for some time around 1990 the site of Miller's Acre carpark Other Titles - River landscape, New Zealand Compare a very similar view by H. A. Scrivener 'Nelson 1863' (B-061-018), which also shows the oast house, mill and river mouth. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 498 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Dunbar Sloane's, August 1994; also at Dunbar Sloanes on 17 April 1991 under the title View of colonial Nelson and the Maitai River (lot 56), and before that in London, at Sotheby's, 24 October 1990 under the title River landscape, New Zealand. (lot 114).