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From: Cowan family: Collection

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-472-037

Description: Ink pen tracing on tracing linen with caption "Summit of Rangitoto Island Auckland. 900 feet high, extinct crater remains of ancient ditches and banks", with imitation of signature "C. Heaphy". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink on tracing linen, 162 x 223 mm.

Date: 1849 - 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-116-1

Description: A view of Lake Rotomahana with Mount Tarawera beyond (not Tongariro) and part of the White Terraces on the left. Copied from an unknown original drawing by Charles Heaphy, ca 1849. Other Titles - Tarawera Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 190 x 115 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von, 1829-1884; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Grefe, Konrad, 1823-1917

Reference: B-187-014

Description: Above, a panoramic view of Ngauruhoe on the left, and Ruapehu on the right, both smoking. Below, three views of White Island: a view looking down into the crater from above (Karte der Insel); a view of the crater, from the north-west rim, showing surveyors with a theodolite (Ansicht des Kraters, vom Kraterrand NW gesehen); and a view of the island from afar, with its height in feet (Ansicht der Insel, S1/2W, 860 engl. Fuss hoch); a sailing ship can be seen in the foreground See also Heaphy's watercolour, held at C-025-018, depicting the view of the crater looking north-west from the crater margin. ca 1850 Other Titles - Novara Exp. Geolog. Theil. I.Bd. Neu-Seeland. Nordinsel. Taf.8.Nro.III / Nro.IV. Other Titles - Tongariro and Ruapehu from Mount Ngauruhoe, looking towards the south-east Other Titles - Whakaari Extended Title - Published in: Hochstetter, Ferdinand von. Reise der osterreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wullerstorf-Urbair. Geologischer Theil. Erster Band. Erste Abtheilung: Geologie von Neu-Seeland. Wien. Aus der kaiserlich-koniglichen Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, 1864. Tafel 8. Nro.III; Nro.IV Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - 1863 [in pencil] Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithographs, sepia-toned, sizes vary, on sheet 283 x 448 mm

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-002

Description: Shows a lake scene (Te Whanga Lagoon) with two ducks in the water and two shags on a branch in the foreground, a canoe on the lake in right distance. Across the lake is a distinctive volcanic cone hill with smaller peaks further in the distance. Tree ferns, a cabbage tree and other trees are nearby, with flax flowering on the strip of land in the foreground The volcanic peak shown may be Te Ranga, close to the South-west corner of Te Whanga Lagoon Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 132 x 355 mm on sheet 221 x 368 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1868

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-147-010

Description: Shows section of perimeter of crater, with detached rock resting on edge at left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] / see over; Verso - top centre - Note. This crater is on the eastern slope of the larger crater on Hawkins Hill, near the Tamiki at Otahuhu. It has discharged its lava towards the eastward. The [appearance?] of the wall of the crater is that which would result from a basin being for a time filled with melted matter cooling on the top and at the edges and which suddenly found vent. There are other places in the Auckland district where similar appearances exist as at the Lake, North Shore, and the Grotto, Onehunga - both craters. C.H. / 20/1/68 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 250 x 350 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-002

Description: A Maori fishing camp in the foreground with two large tents, a drying rack for fish and a long canoe with two sails pulled up at a beach. A further similar canoe in the background along with a smaller canoe. Maori men, women and children busy in the foreground on the beach. Trees close to the waterfront and the cone of Rangitoto, Auckland's dormant volcanic island, in the background. Reproduced as a "Turnbull Library Print", 1977. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Heaphy. Title in ink. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on buff paper 435 x 550 mm

Date: 1847 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

Reference: C-025-018

Description: Two Maori men waving or pointing to two European men, who are throwing rocks on the ground ahead of them to test its firmness. The steaming crater lake is surrounded by hills, with a geyser or fountain of hot water in the background. One of the two Europeans is likely to be a self-portrait by the artist. Thought on acquisition to show Lake Rotomahana. Title is from F von Hochstetter's Geology of New Zealand (1864), where this image is reproduced as Plate 8, no.IV (at back of volume). Because of the painting's presence in this book, it was thought to have been executed in the late 1850s, possibly during Hochstetter's visit to New Zealand. However the presence in the Great Exhibition of a watercolour by Heaphy of this subject in 1851, suggests a much earlier visit by Heaphy to the area. There is a very similar watercolour in a private collection in Basel, by descent from Hochstetter. Heaphy may have copied his earlier watercolour and given a copy to Hochstetter to be used for illustrating Geology of New Zealand. May have been shown at the Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, London in 1851. In the New Zealand section of the exhibition, lot 27 is an entry from C. Ligar, of a model of of White Island. "Also a drawing of the place, by C.Heaphy" (See exhibition catalogue, p. 1002) Other Titles - Rotomahana Lake and geyser [former incorrect title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 393 x 605 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-003

Description: Two European men carrying guns and bags, a Maori man with a gun and a backback, and a dog in the foreground, making their way up a path though tree ferns, cabbage trees and ferns. Three Maori are seated on a low hill in the middle ground and there are volcanic cones in the middle ground and background. One of the group is likely to be the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy [in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white 414 x 540 mm

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-001

Description: Two European men, a Maori man, a dog, and a theodolite in front of the conical crater of Auckland Harbour's dormant volcanic island Rangitoto. Ferns and two low scrubby bushes are the only vegetation. The harbour and other landforms can be seen in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy (in ink); Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on buff paper 420 x 545 mm

Date: 1839 - 1849

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-145-011

Description: A view from the sea, showing a three-masted barque, possibly intended to represent the Tory, in the left foreground. The Sugar Loaf Islands and volcanic peak Paritutu in right foreground. Mount Egmont and foothills in the background. Mount Egmont or Taranaki is represented rather more accurately in this view, than in Heaphy's Mount Egmont from the Southward, where its cone is depicted with too great a perfection. Possibly an imaginative reconstruction by the artist of his voyage aboard the Tory past Mt Taranaki in 1839 or 1840. Other Titles - Taranaki Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. HEAPHY 1849 [in ink]; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white with scraping out 144 x 183 mm on embossed sheet of wove card, 236 x 284 mm Provenance: Collection of Major-General R. H Wynyard, commander of the 58th Regiment in Northland 1845-1846, and resident in Auckland 1847-1858; passed to his descendants and purchased from them in the early 1970s by Wellington art dealer Brian Groshinski; purchased by Mr B. L. Russell of Lower Hutt, 1979. Processing information: Name field updated May 2024 following information from a researcher. Previously included the name for the ship 'Tory".