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Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-017

Description: A view of Whangape Lake from its shores Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Title from K.S. Alexander Sketchbook, in Auckland Public Library. On mount: Lake close to Waikato. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 137 x 255 mm Provenance: Purchase: Mr Rich, Farnham Commons, Bucks., 1974.

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-033

Description: Looking east across the harbour and beaches of the North Shore towards the city showing the buildings of the town centred on Point Britomart with Mount Eden in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour, 246 x 356 mm

Date: 1982

By: British Petroleum Company; Gully, John, 1819-1888; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-086-1982-03

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six prints and watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: John Gully's Mount Aspiring from the Matakitaki Valley 1877; Alfred Sharpe's Devonport and the Waitemata Harbour from the Domain, 1877; J G Mitford's Tarawhera Lake 1844 or 1845; C D Barraud's Wellington from Brooklyn, 1860 and his The Barracks, Napier, 1866; William Fox's Guards Bay, January 1848. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar

Date: 1844

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-015

Description: View across the Whangape River towards a small kainga, with half-a-dozen houses Title from K.S. Alexander sketchbook, in Auckland Public Library. Attributed to Mitford in Sotheby catalogue (June 1974) (See TL 3/1/1, 10 July, 1974). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and pencil 160 x 258 mm Provenance: Purchase: Sotheby & Co. Auction, London, 20 June, 1974.

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-031

Description: Looking down from a hill covered in scrub, with the beachline beyond the town visible to the right and Okiato peninsula opposite across the bay, with many other hills in the distance. The settlement of Okiato can be made out in the distance with Captain Hobson's house on the hilltop, and James Reddy Clendon's trading post (a two-storied building) at the beach Two places in the Bay of Islands were named Russell in the 1840s. This view is of Okiato, the original capital, not of Kororareka Other Titles - Waikare. Okiato Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour, 217 x 313 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-111

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with low fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery in the centre. A road runs past the cemetery towards Government House in the middle distance. Several other houses can also be seen. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-041. The view is attributed to Edward Ashworth by Janet Paul in Mrs Hobson's album (Auckland, 1990) p. 149. However there are strong stylistic similarities to the work of Mitford, and it seems more likely that he painted two views from similar spots for Mrs Hobson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 301 mm

Date: 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-013

Description: Two large flax bushes in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Maori excavations for pa on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert, with other hills in the background. Mt Albert has no houses on or around it Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 247 mm

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-012

Description: Shows a group of naked Maori carrying weapons in the middle distance by the shore of Lake Rotorua. Mokoia Island is in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 207 x 318 mm

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: B-159-004

Description: Shows the lake with a group of several Maori women in the right foreground, along with one man. In the background beyond the lake, are two volcanic cones, one of them Mount Tarawera. Other Titles - Volcanoes Other Titles - Lake Tarawera [previous title] Inscriptions: Backing board recto - bottom left - G M pinct; Backing board recto - bottom right - [Title] " ... beautiful and most excellent ... "; Backing board recto - centre - (On label on second backing board): "The backing sheet was folded under to accom[m]odate a frame". Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 214 x 360 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Gary Day who purchased it from Dunbar Sloane in 1974. It had previously been sold through Sotheby's, London on 20 June 1974, from the same source as other works by Mitford purchased by the Library.

Date: 1844

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-016

Description: Whangape Lake and provision huts. The lake is fringed with reeds and the palisade of a pa runs along the right of the view. Two small canoes in the water. Signed: Guise Mitford. Identified as Whangape Lake by Waikato Art Museum (TL 3/1/1, 25 Aug 1983; 3/1/1/2, 8 Sept 1983). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, Chinese white and pencil, 147 x 255 mm Provenance: Bought by Dunbar Sloane from Sotheby & Co.

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-043

Description: Auckland City from Mechanics Bay (now Stanley Street). The houses on the cliff in the middle distance mark the southern end of Official Bay. A flag flies on Point Britomart and on the higher ground to the left are St Paul's, the Barracks and the business enterprises at the top of Shortland Crescent. Government House lies in the sheltered hollow on the left. The complete spire on St Paul's suggests the painting was done after March 1844, the date of completion of the spire. The foreground is framed with tall flowering flax on the right and cabbage trees and other trees on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-014

Description: Tarawera Lake with Maori in canoes to the left, a bluff topped by Tauaroa Pa, with whare made notable by their sloping tekoteko (gable figures), with the pallisades of Whareroa Pa visible at the lakeside in the background below distant hills. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. History of site from 'Wharekahu CMS Mission station, Maketu, The Spencers 1870-1883' by Alister Matheson in Historical review, Vol. 20 No.2 November 2002. The site shown was shortly afterwards settled by American missionary Seymour Mills Spencer, who called the site 'Galilee', called 'Kariri' by Maori. Spencer later established nearby an English-style 'model village' Te Wairoa, from which tourists left to visit the Pink and White Terraces until their destruction in June 1886 in the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Other Titles - Tarawera Lake, Tuhourangi pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 359 x 512 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-041

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery to the left. Government House is left of centre in the middle distance and three other houses overlooking Grafton Gully are somewhat closer on the right, one of them the home of William Connell, the first Postmaster-General and his wife Isabella. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-111 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in pencil: Entrance to the Harbour, Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 161 x 244 mm