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Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-002

Description: Shows a lone gravestone with a small gated surround, high atop a hill above Nelson, with the Boulder Bank in view below. The gravestone is inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of Henry A Bell, aged 19'. Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock is set just out of view of the painting, to the lower left. Various ships and boats can be seen in the Nelson Haven area of Tasman Bay, between the Boulder Bank and the coast. One of the boats is a waka with two sails Bell's brother Henry (called by his middle name, Angelo), went to Nelson about 1841 as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. He died of typhoid within a year of arriving. Like Angelo, Francis was usually called by his middle name, Dillon Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, and surfacing at a a French provincial auction. Possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by William Fox and Charles Heaphy purchased 2006 and 2014 (Reference numbers C-025-025, C-013-007, C-173-001 and A-465-015).

Date: 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-001

Description: Shows the coastal road and hills of the Nelson foreshore, with what is now Abel Tasman National Park seen in the distance. Two Maori carry a rod between them with a line of fish hanging from it. Various houses can be seen at the road's edge, and boats of different types are in the water. One dinghy in the foreground is kept under a roofed shelter. Oxen pulling a cart can also be seen travelling the road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Heaphy 1845 [in faint brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 215 x 310 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, who acquired the work at a French provincial auction and possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by Francis Dillon Bell and Charles Heaphy, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-012-007, and C-173-002.

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-030

Description: Shows a Maori warrior in the centre foreground, walking in a partly crouched position through low bushy growth, towards the right. He wears a feather cloak and carries a spear. To the left is a stream, flowing quietly between overgrown banks. In the centre background is a fencelike structure under the trees, part of the fencing surrounding the grave site. In the distance, a hill rises to the right. Dated from the date inscribed on another view by Gold taken at the same spot (A-329-014). The Wairau Affray took place in Tuamarina, Wairau Valley, on 17 June 1843. Other Titles - Wairau Affray Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1847

From: [Greenwood, John Danforth] 1803-1890 :[Sketchbook] 1822 [1825], 1847.

By: Greenwood, John Danforth, 1803-1890

Reference: E-150-q-047

Description: Looking down into Guards Bay, (Kakapo Bay, Port Underwood) with Jacky Guard's house close to the water, another house alongside, and two other buildings nearby, fenced garden areas, and a schooner in the water Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 128 x 210 mm

Date: 1849

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-034

Description: A moonlit or early evening view showing a rocky headland with an arched rock, and a Maori canoe with a sail in the left foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Pt. Underwood N.Z. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 155 x 260 mm

Date: 1848

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

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-016/017

Description: The left half of a two-page spread shows a map of Hapua Cove (Onapua Bay), Tory Channel and Port Underwood. Identifies Fly Cove or Port Underwood and marks the position of the old pa and the Mission station. The right hand side is a sketch of the bay 'Hapua Cove, Tory Channel, Q. C. S, from Mount Pisgah' showing the bay, Tory Channel,the west end of Arapawa Island (Heaphy Point) in the middle distance and further hills, possibly Mount Stokes in the background, identified as Totaranui Other Titles - Onapua Bay from Rahotia. Queen Charlotte Sound Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (two page spread). Physical Description: Pencil 135 x 140 on page 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1848

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

Reference: C-013-001

Description: Shows two figures on the near ridge, looking down over the inlet of Picton Harbour at left. To the right are hills, and in the distance can be seen islands and hills in the Marlborough Sounds. There is a small area of cleared land with a Maori kainga or pa (Waitohi Pa?) in the port area to the left, and slightly to the right, a building that appears to be a European church. The New Zealand Company stamp, dated 1848, appears in the sky area along with the number 268. Painted for the New Zealand Company during Fox's travels around the northern South Island in 1848. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983. 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. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Waitohi, Picton Inscriptions: Recto - above image - No. 268 [with NZ Company stamp dated "14 July 1848"] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 557 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-017-1

Description: View from the sea, showing extensive hills and the Ocean Bay settlement with several buildings on the shoreline. On the reverse is a rough sketch of an outline of hills at Port Underwood Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on two pages, 99 x 530 mm

Date: 1848

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

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-333-019

Description: View from Whatamango Bay, Picton looking west into the Sound. Identifies Watamango in the foreground; Motungarara an island or small peninsula to the left; and Parororangi Range in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A Wills 1848. Aug Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and pencil 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: B-198-008

Description: View from the hills above Tuamarina, looking south, with dense bush in the foreground, grassy plains along the shore to the left, the passage of streams marked by trees, a stand of bush in the centre distance marking the site of Grovetown, with the site of Blenheim to its right, the Wither Hills in the far distance. Two men are standing in the foreground viewing the scene. One has a pack on his back, and a walking stick, and gestures with his left hand toward the vista. The other man smokes a pipe and carries an axe The yellow toning of the grasses suggests that they are native grasses, shown prior to European burning off in preparation for farming Richard Airey put together a provenance statement and ownership history for the painting, September 2015 (Clio #562825) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - art of Wairau. Bell. July 1845 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 260 x 370 mm Provenance: The painting had been in Richard Airey's extended family, held in both New Zealand and England, since the 1840s

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-011

Description: Shows a general view of the Wairau Valley with the river and some vegetation. One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information. Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 5" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-009

Description: View into the valley of the Pelorus River, with flaxes growing on rocks on the left, bush-clad islands with the occasional cabbage tree below, amongst the meanderings of the river. One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information Other Titles - bearing Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 3" (apparently numbered out of sequence) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm

Date: 1839 - 1844

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-021

Description: Seven strips of coastal profile forming a more or less continous record of the appearance of the west coast of New Zealand from Taranaki south to Queen Charlotte Sound. Part of the view is taken from Entry (i.e. Kapiti) Island The work seems most likely to have been done in 1839 when Heaphy travelled up the west coast aboard the Tory. Exhibited: "Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989; Treasures in Trust, Auckland Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. A related series of coastal profiles, also by Heaphy, is held at the office of the Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton, Somerset, England. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 385 x 499 mm Provenance: Commissioned by the New Zealand Company. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards in London in 1916 with other New Zealand Company material.

Date: 1848

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

Reference: B-113-015

Description: The grave of Rangiawa (Kuika) wife of Mr Wynen, in the foreground, in bush, looking down into the cleared area of a small bay (Kakapo Bay, where whaler Jacky Guard lived) with several houses, hills opposite, in Port Underwood. On the face of the painting at the top, is "No. 271", with the N Z Company stamp, which is dated "14 July [18]48". Title is taken from verso 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. The Hocken Library has another version of this view, titled Port Underwood with Jacky Guard's house. A note has been added underneath the painting (probably by Dr Hocken): Jack Guard was the pilot of the 'Pelorus' and carried on business as a whaler and sealer. He was the first [Pakeha] to enter the south eastern mouth of the channel being driven in by a gale in 1827. Grave of Rangiawa (Kuika) native wife of Mr Wynen who with her infant son was found murdered at Cloudy Bay on the 20th Dec. 1842. The indignation of the Maoris at the acquittal of the white man who was supposed to be guilty of the murder is regarded as one of the indirect causes leading to the Wairau Massacre. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 342 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1841

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-056

Description: View from the sea, looking towards D'Urville Island and its port, with a sailing ship in the foreground Title from verso Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 90 x 168 mm

Date: 1844

By: Drake, James Charles, 1821-1865?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-108-010

Description: Shows two Maori canoes in Pelorus Sound with features marked around the south end of the sound One of series of 8 drawings; see A108/007, "View of the Moketap ..." for information Inscriptions: At head of drawing: "No. 4" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink 174 x 259 mm