Places

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 17 Jan 1909-6 Mar 1918

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-Papers-0923

Description: Two letters to C A Ewen, 17 Jan 1909, 14 Dec 189-? accompanying books; the latter refers to Turnbull's giving his library away; three letters to Angus & Robertson, 18 May 1915 concerning the Marsden centenary at the Bay of Islands, 6 Apr 1914 & 5 Feb 1916 asking for material to be forwarded to Wm Dixson; three letters, 17 Jan 1916, 25 Jan 1917, & 6 Mar 1918 to Wm Dixson about an etching of D S Mitchell by Lionel Lindsay from sketches by W Syars Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 letters, 13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: 1906

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-003

Description: Looking up the Tasman River towards Mount Cook from close to Mount Cook township Watercolour removed from recto of postcard. Verso of postcard with message from artist to A H Turnbull hinged in with item Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 88 x 139 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander H. Turnbull

Date: 1902

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: qMS-2047

Description: Privately printed book. Includes letters to Turnbull, and 1 page of ms notes by him Quantity: 1 volume(s) (8, 20, 5 pages). Physical Description: Printed matter & ms notes (29 cm; stiff cream paper covers, ½ brown speckled calf, marbled boards)

Date: 1905 - 1915

By: Crawshaw, Lionel Townsend, 1864-1949; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-110-009

Description: A view across sea towards the Endeavour, in full sail, and the town of Whitby (Yorkshire) in the background Additional note, formerly on the back, now below the work, in ink, in an unknown hand, possibly the artist's: 'The Earl of Pembroke leaving Whitby in 1768 for the Thames to join Captain Cook where she was renamed the Endeavour. It is as illustrated in Richard Wetherells book and the landscape is founded on an old print of the period in conjunction with the artists studies made out at sea'. Another larger version of the same etching is at A-110-019. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - The Endeavour; also bottom left: L. Crawshaw [both in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 106 x 149 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

Date: June 1900

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-490

Description: The steam ship and topsail schooner 'Huia' aground on a beach at Patea, New Zealand. A wharf is visible in the background, along with rock formations at the foot of rocky headlands in the distance There are records of the Huia going aground in several places and at several dates: Briefly at the entrance to Nelson Harbour, March 1881; at Patea, June 1900; at the entrance to Motueka Harbour Feb 1903. For a longer period, in the channel by the Foxton bar, Sept 1889. The surrounding landforms do not resemble the flat land around the Foxton bar, making one of the other venues more likely. Location identification made by comparsion with a photograph of the stranding published in Wanganui Herald weekly supplement 'The Yeoman' in June 1900. Title supplied by Library. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S S [in red brushpoint]. Possible scratched out initials on the bottom right corner. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 450 x 640 mm Provenance: Possibly part of Alexander Turnbull's collection Processing information: Record updated 21 July 2023 with location information supplied by a researcher.

Date: 1844 - 1907

By: Bowring, Walter Armiger, 1874-1931; Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: D-018-012

Description: View looking down over buildings of Jillett's (sometimes spelled Gillett or Gillet) whaling station spread out along the Waiorua beach at Kapiti Island. Copy of original sketch by J A Gilfillan (see New Zealand Times, 7 Aug. 1907, p. 4 referring to the creation of this watercolour copy in 1907; TL 3/1/1, 10/8/83; and Photo File print of ink sketch by Gilfillan with same title, held by Hocken Library). Edward Jerningham Wakefield noted [1839] that some of the English style wattle and daub cottages at Waiorua-Kapiti were occupied by Maori chiefs (particularly Te Rangihiroa d.1842). This was also the scene of the battle "Waiorua", aka "Whakapaetai", in 1824. The main settlement was the site of the pa "Tawhiriataka", while the northern part of the half moon bay is the approximate site of "Ngaiopiko" pa. Amongst its principal residents were the chiefs Te Rangihiroa, Te Hiko, Metapere Te Waipunaahau, Tungia, Te Matoha, Te Rau-o-te-Rangi, Te Tahua Rene, Ropata Hurumutu and others. Numerous whalers lived and worked from this site during the 1840s including Jenkins, Nicol, Bolton, Cootes and O'Meara who was amongst the last whalers to farm the northern part of the Island. Other Titles - Gillet's; Gilletts Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 340 x 875 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?