Places

Date: 1845

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-085

Description: Shows the front of a small single-storey cottage with thatched roof and a verandah supported by five pillars. The cottage has two or three front windows and a front door, two chimneys and a lean-to, with a picket fence running from the house on both sides. A circular garden bed is in front and a cabbage tree, flax and another plant, possibly a fern, are to the right The Rev. Dr Robert Maunsell lived in this raupo cottage from 1838 to 1843. It was superseded by a 6-room wooden dwelling that burned down after three weeks' occupation. Maunsell and his wife were hosts to Governor Hobson in March 1842, with Chief Justice Martin, Abel Best and Edward Shortland also present. Dr Johnson was away from New Zealand between November 1844 and November 1846. He must have made this drawing from an earlier version or possibly initialled and dated it when he gave it to Mrs Hobson in England Other Titles - Maraetai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J. J. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on yellow embossed wove paper, 63 x 100 mm (image) on sheet 82 x 225 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-048-046

Description: View looking down onto Lake Rotorua, with Mokoia in the distance. The Ohinemutu peninsula is on the right with steam rising from amongst the Maori whare. In the foreground is a whare on the left, a palisade and several Maori figures. Probably copied from a drawing by John Johnson or a copy of that drawing by Cuthbert Clarke. See Cuthbert Clarke;s 'Ohinemotu. From an outline by Dr Johnson [1849]' a conte drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 19954, folio 29, no. 31) of which the Turnbull holds a photograph. The same image was reproduced as a wood engraving in Sir George Grey's 'Polynesian Mythology' (London, 1855). Title from inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see A-048-027..

Date: 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-174-2

Description: Shows the front of a small European-style hut with raupo roof supported by a series of neat pillars. The hut has one window and a front door and is on a sea-shore. A group comprising a standing figure and two seated figures is on the left and a canoe is by the water's edge in the background. Wiremu Hoete, the Maori transliteration of the baptismal name William Jowett lived at Putiki Bay (now Ostend, Waiheke Island). His house comprised 4 rooms, and he had been converted to Christianity by Robert Maunsell of the Church Missionary Society. Wiremu Hoete (or Howete) was named after the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, William Jowett (1787-1855). See 'Mrs Hobson's album...' by Elsie Locke and Janet Paul. Auckland, 1990, p. 160 for further details. Other Titles - Whare of Wiremu Howete (William Jowett), Chief of the Ngati Paoa, Ostend, Putiki Bay, Waiheke Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash on embossed wove paper, 73 x 109 mm

Date: 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-073

Description: John Johnson's drawing of the house and garden of William Swainson, Attorney-General in Auckland, with Judge's Bay to the right. Flax in flower near the fence in the foreground can be seen, and small shrubs, and a path winding up through lawn from the waterfront Associated with the view on p. 51 of the album, where the Biblical quote is begun 'and the wilderness shall become the fruitful field' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and grey wash, 199 x 278 mm

Date: 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-051

Description: John Johnson's drawing of his own house and garden, below Government House, looking towards Official Bay. Shows grape vines, other plants, possibly including a line of willow trees, and pumpkins in the foreground Associated with the view on p. 73 of the album, where the Biblical quote is continued 'and the solitary places made glad' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 162 x 242 mm