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Date: 1843 - 1844

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :[Two works. 1. Palliser Bay, Wairarapa, &c (with dwelling and figures) [ca 1843]. 2. (On verso) Porirua / Paremata whaling station [1842-1844]]

Reference: C-126-020

Description: Watercolour shows the south Wairarapa coast, possibly near Te Kopi looking west from near Cape Palliser, with dwellings and probably a whaling station (Wades Whaling Station? as mentioned in the Wellington Spectator of 1844 - quoted in Mita Carter's "Early Palliser Bay" (1982)) in the centre. Several men stand on the steep hillside at the right. The foreground terrain is covered with low scrub. Entitled "Whaling station, Palliser Bay, Wairarapa" in McArthur's August 1987 auction catalogue. Dated from other views of the same area. Other Titles - Whaling station, Palliser Bay, Wairarapa Similar to watercolour at B-031-025. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 380 mm, with pencil sketch of same size on verso. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at an English country auction, 1986 or 1987, by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm. Brian Groshinski of McArthurs Auction, 14. 8. 98)

Date: 1846 - 1848

From: Balneavis, Henry Colin, 1818-1876 :[Album, 1830s-1914]

Reference: E-952-f-114

Description: Plan view of Pauatahanui Pa, Porirua, along with 'outer pallissades' and explanatory text Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, b&w, image 175 x 128 mm

Date: [between 1920-1946] - 1842

Reference: WA-03502-F

Description: Photograph of a framed drawing with captions, entitled 'The City of Auckland 1842, Capital of New Zealand, dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Stanley' taken circa 1930s to 1940s by Whites Aviation. Significant buildings and places are listed underneath in faded writing. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [ca 1840s]

From: Harding, William James, 1826-1899: Negatives of Wanganui district

Reference: 1/2-008428-G

Description: Copy negative taken by the studio of William James Harding, Whanganui of a drawing of the early settlement of Whangaunui, artist unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Negative register and inscriptions on negative Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1841 - 1842

From: Various artists :New Zealand. [Maori by a European encampment, Nelson, 1841, after a lithograph by Charles Heaphy; Kororareka Beach, Russell, 1827 or 1828, after a lithograph by Augustus Earle]

Reference: A-443-008

Description: Watercolour by an unidentified hand, possibly after Charles Heaphy's lithograph View of Nelson Haven, 1841, published 1842. View from the first ridge above the beach showing tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson (although one in the foreground appears to be house- or whare-like). The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant Moutere Hills. Five Maori stand or squat in the foreground. Trees frame the view on either side. Five ships are anchored in the harbour, which probably include the Will Watch,the Whitby and the Arrow. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1849

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horse racing in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-RACING-1849-01

Description: A programme for four races of a race meeting held in Auckland, has an illustration of two galloping horses with their jockeys, at top centre. For three of the four races, the names, ages, owners, weights and jockey colours of each horse are listed. Owners include Mr A Cooper, Lieut. Page, Mr R Graham, Captain Greenwood, Mr McFarlane, Mr Young, Mr Macky, Mr Williamson, Mr Dennett. This programme is for the first day of a three-day racing meeting in Auckland in 1849. The newspapers of the previous week (5 December) issued a plea: “The inner side of the New Race Course having been much cut up by horses being galloped thereon, a practice which, if continued, will be very injurious to the horses running at the ensuing races, the public are requested to abstain from riding on it until after the next meeting. It is particularly desired that all horses training on the Course, be kept on the Outer Circle”. The paper also stipulated that “No race will come off unless there be three entries for the same”; so the second race listed here was only just feasible. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on cream silk fabric, 168 x 138 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

Reference: E-943-q-003

Description: A view of Rangitoto Island from a rocky shoreline, probably around Devonport Other watercolour views from the Devonport area are included in this album Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 212 x 257 mm, on album page 220 x 265 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012

Date: Mar 1943

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-05957-G

Description: Photograph taken by Leo White. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative ¼ plate 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1840

Reference: B-193-002

Description: Busts of a Māori man and woman of Otago. On the left is the tattooed head and neck of a Māori man, Takatahara, lithographed from a photograph, in its turn a plaster model of the subject taken from life, during Dumont d'Urville's visit to Dunedin in 1840. Similarly, on the right, is the bust of a woman whose name is given as Heroua. She is shown without moko, but with clear mourning scarification on her forehead and cheeks. The two busts from which these copies were made are in the Musee du Quai d'Orsay, Paris Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, J.S.C. Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Oceanie. Paris, Gide, 1842-1847. Atlas. Anthropologie. Plate 13 Takatahara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 280 x 345 mm (plate mark), on sheet 335 x 530 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, held in England

Date: [ca. 1846]

Reference: A-465-021

Description: Shows bullocks pulling a cannon on wheels, with three soldiers. One soldier sits on the cannon; one drives the bullocks with a whip; the third walks behind the cannon, his rifle resting on his shoulder. In the background there are hills, and possibly a Maori pa Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Pukekawa [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour on paper, 123 x 190 mm

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-006

Description: Shows a view from inside a fence with a cart or plough on the near side of it, looking west northwest from the position of the Purewa Cemetery towards the Orakei Peninsula, the Orakei Basin and in the distance the hill of Parnell with a church (St Pauls' with the spire completed) on top of it. There are two small sailing ships (Selwyn's 'Flying Fish' and 'Marian' and a yacht off the Orakei point, and a group of huts ("Okahu N. Village") at the far right above the stream that flows into the Basin. St Paul's Church was built in 1843 but did not acquire the spire seen in this picture until a year or two later. Selwyn arrived in Auckland in 1843. Other Titles - Church; North Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 214 mm.

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-048

Description: The palisades of Motuopuhi Pā [Motuapuhi/Motupoi], near Tongariro, on Lake Rotoaira. Compare the Library's finished watercolour of the same scene 'Motupoi Pa'; also the lithograph in Angas' The New Zealanders illustrated. Plate 32, p. 75. Loose, not bound in volume, issuable separately Appears to have been in the Angas album at page 37, under an earlier numbering system. Other Titles - Ko Rotoaira ko Motoupuki Pa [inscription on verso] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 261 x 325 mm

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1840 - 1860

From: Bennett, J R E (Mr): Photographs of early Auckland and Maori children

Reference: PA2-2398-1

Description: On Back of PA2-2398 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0014-42

Description: Shows Maori crafted objects: 1. Carved image of Te Rauparaha in one of his war canoes at Kapiti Island. 2. Decorated head of a war canoe belonging to Te Rauparaha 3. Carved head of a canoe at Kaiwharawhara 4 & 5. Ornamented paddles belonging to Te Heuheu, principal chief at Taupo Lake 6. Handle of a canoe paddle from Taupo Lake 7. A canoe under sail, Cook's Straits Angas visited New Zealand in 1844 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured, 346 x 296 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-106/107

Description: Looking across the bay towards the Port Chalmers settlement. Identifies H M S Dolphin, Martin & McKay, and Anderson & Co's offices. A Maori man is squatting in the foreground near rocks and a European man is sketching on the rocks to his right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-041

Description: View looking towards a native forest in a valley at Ngapara, Otago Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink over pencil on page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-09-2

Description: Shows Wellington seen from the Hutt Road with a rocky outcrop in the centre foreground. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 75 x 190 mm. on page.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-080

Description: Left side of an image spread over a double page. Shows a pa on a plain with distant mountains. There is a low fence surrounding a group of low whare and tall drying platforms. From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 235 mm