Places

Date: 1863 - 1867

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-234-012

Description: Four slab huts with raupo thatched roofs and slab chimneys in a clearing in New Zealand bush, with tree ferns and cabbage trees, as well as other large trees and dense bush in the background. There is a high rocky bluff to the right and tall hills in the background. Smoke is coming from the chimneys of the left- and right-most huts, there are steps leading to the central hut and the right-hand hut has a woman in a red skirt standing in the doorway. The top of the chimney for this last hut is formed by a barrel. Bush combined with rock formations suggest the Coromandel district, visited by Hoyte during the gold-mining era. The settlement is likely to be of semi-permanent miners' huts. Other Titles - Early settlers' camp. [title in auction catalogue] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J.C.Hoyte Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 156 x 336 mm

Date: 1868

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: C-052-009

Description: Shows the tunnel entrances to a gold mine on the left, with three miners outside, one carrying a shovel. Tree ferns and the smoke from a fire, then a goldminers' tent with two men and a small fire, centre foreground. Hills and a plain with the Waihou and Piako rivers in the distance In folder 2: Letter by L C Lloyd (11/5/1970) confirming attribution, and sketch-map showing probable area where painted. (Copy on 3/1/1/) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & chinese white, 317 x 542 mm Provenance: Previously owned by a dealer in Palmerston North, who had purchased the painting for $38 circa 1970, from the Start Family, Napier, who had purchased it at a market in Napier in the 1930s or 1940s for £1 or £2. The painting sat over the mantelpiece in the Start family home for many years. (pre-auction information from Mr Brian Start, pers. comm. 27. 8. 1987).