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Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-040

Description: Right side of a panorama with A-292-039, showing St Paul's church, Britomart Barracks, Government House and the entrance to the Harbour. View from the Karangahape Road area of Auckland looking towards the town and harbour, across Parnell. An ink version of the full panorama is held in Manuscripts & Archives as an illustration to a letter dated 30 November 1846. Its title is Auckland from the head of the town valley. The left side of this panorama (A-292-039) shows Queen Street, the Queen Street Gaol, St Patrick's Cathedral under construction and Fort Britomart. Other Titles - Auckland from the head of the town valley, November 1846 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 243 x 167 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-002

Description: View looking down into Commercial Bay, with Shortland Street leading up the hill to St Paul's on the skyline (along the ridge now featuring Albert Park and the University). The Britomart Barracks is on the headland left of centre and Wood's Hotel is to the right along the skyline from St Paul's. Outlines of houses and commercial buildings shown clearly. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title , date, signature; Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 25 1850. No. 343 inscribed to right of stamp. Ink identification of features along the top = left to right: the old barracks, ... Church of England, Shortland Street, Woods New Hotel, There is a related watercolour in the Hocken Library 'Auckland, 1849' (acc 12,881) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touch of wash 181 x 535 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards & Co, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection, London, 1915.

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Adams, John, active 1844

Reference: B-080-007

Description: A view from the water looking back at the town with boats drawn up along the waterfront, houses, hotels, commercial buildings and churches, looking up towards Parnell. The street along the waterfront is Shortland Street. The church on the left on top of the hill to the left is St Paul's. There is a key below indicating and naming streets and buildings Shows also cattle drawing a cart of hay along the street Very similar to the work at B-176-003, which has been attributed to John Adams. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 180 x 350 mm

Date: 1843

By: Forbes, C S, active 1843; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: C-053-018

Description: Shows details of Auckland buildings and shore line before any reclamation. St Paul's Cathedral is prominent on the cliff-top to the left. The Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, has other examples of Forbes' drawings, suggesting that he was a naval man. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 330 x 547 mm on sheet 330 x 545 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Captain A W F Fuller

Date: 1840 - 1850

From: Mathew, Felton 1808-1847 :[Scrapbook. ca.1845].

Reference: E-389-q-005

Description: Shows Felton Mathew's verandahed cottage behind its low fence with gate at left. Behind the house is the half obscured church, with its spire to the right. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, / and the Residence of the Chief Police Magistrate. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 140 x 182 mm, on sheet 288 x 240 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist / Inventory available..

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Mathew, Felton, 1801-1847; Norwood, Hugh C, active 1978-1999

Reference: E-389-q

Description: Mostly contains views of England. Contains some New Zealand views: 3 sketches showing Mount Egmont, volcanic plateau in Auckland district, and Maori pa; and engravings, one of St Paul's church, Auckland, with Mathew's home in foreground, and one of Mercury Bay. Inscriptions: Album page - centre - (On front flyleaf): The 3 New Zealand Pencil Drawings are / by Felton Mathew 1845. / See Sotheby's Catalogue 18/1/78. Item 142./ Property of H.C. Norwood. Felton Mathew was Chief Police Magistrate in Auckland. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 56 engravings, 3 lithographs, 4 pencil and ink sketches, and 5 photographs in album 288 x 240 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist / Inventory available.. Provenance: Previously owned by H. C. Norwood; bought by him at Sotheby's, London, lot 142, on 18 Jan. 1978.

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-009

Description: Shows St Paul's Church on the skyline, its spire not yet built, a cluster of houses, Freeman's Bay in the centre with houses along the waterfront, two men and upturned rowboats beside a headland in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 140 x 213 mm

Date: 1848

By: Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-081-004

Description: View of Auckland with harbour and ships in the foreground. St Paul's Cathedral dominates the skyline. The view is from Hobson Bay looking towards Parnell. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. Hyde Page; Recto - bottom left - Auckland N. Z. 1848 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 280 x 438 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Possibly part of the Bridge-Williams album?

Date: 1846

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-038

Description: Shows the first Government House, built 1841, with well-established gardens, including wistaria growing over pillars of verandah, a cannon mounted in the front lawn and other houses and the spire of St Paul's Church in the background to the right On the verso of this view is the left side of Collinson's [Auckland from the head of the town valley] A-292-039. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper 142 x 242 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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: 1843 - 1844

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Hobson, Eliza Ann, 1811?-1876

Reference: A-275-007

Description: Auckland City from the hills behind the city, with a flax bush to the right and three Maori viewing the scene from the fern on the left. A stream in the middle ground (now the site of Queen Street) leads down to the town with Government House shown in the fenced area in the centre right and St Paul's Church silhouetted against Mt Victoria across the harbour. The cluster of buildings closest to the viewer at the lowest point in the valley is the Queen Street gaol, excavated in 1987 (see TL13/14/1 8/3/91). Rangitoto is shown in the background and there are several ships in the harbour. The scene is shown at sunset. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. A preliminary pencil drawing for this watercolour is held at A-208-018. The title of the watercolour is taken from the title of the pencil drawing, which shows St Paul's without its tower, although a tentative tower is lightly sketched in. The drawing would be likely to have been executed during 1843 and no later than January 1844, when Ashworth departed New Zealand for Hong Kong. The watercolour may have been completed while Ashworth was in New Zealand, with the putative tower added; or he may have worked from his pencil sketch at a slightly later date. Several of the sketches in the Hobson album were completed after Mrs Hobson left New Zealand in 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 365 mm Provenance: The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album (E-216-f).. Processing information: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was too large for the album and was becoming damaged around the edges. It was formerly located on p. 107 of the album.

Date: 1847

By: Mundy, Godfrey Charles, 1804-1860

Reference: A-447-004

Description: Shows a view of Auckland from the harbour. A sailing ship features prominently in the middle foreground, bearing a blue ensign flag. A jetty is seen on the right with a road leading up to Parnell. Other buildings featuring on the hillside are St Paul's church, and Fort Britomart barracks. Two other boats can be seen in the harbour: a steam boat and a small yacht. A buoy bobs in the water in the immediate foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Auckland from the Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, ca 160 x 253 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to purchase, framed and owned in Australia.

Date: 1849-1875, 1890

By: Lloyd, John Frederick, 1810-1875

Reference: ATL-Group-00619

Description: Letters and cased testimonial of gratitude concerning Rev Lloyd's service at St John's College, St Paul's, Auckland and as Archdeacon of Waitemata (1849-1870). The letters begin with his voyage to New Zealand and continue by discussing matters that affect the church in New Zealand and wars against the Maori people, the Melanesian Mission, Treaty of Waitangi, Governor Grey, fighting in the Waikato, death of three of his children, and the drowning of his brother Robert, as well as his return to England in 1870 due to impaired healthDetailed accounts of journeys through New Zealand, with comments on conditions, the war situation and personalities. Includes inward letters from Bishops J C Patteson, G A Selwyn, C J Abraham and others. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 6 folder(s) (93 pieces). 0.06 Linear Metres. 1 box(es) wooden cased address and photograph. Physical Description: Holographs, manuscripts, photographs, printed matter, and cased testimonial. Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Fuller description of letter-contents in back file..