Places

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-b

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042-a

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

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: 1863

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :[Four works - Off Napier, New Zealand, 2 April 1862; Taranaki roads, New Zealand, Mount Egmont and the Sugar Loaf Mountains, 19 March 1863; Taranaki or New Plymouth, New Zealand, visited 27 June 1863; and, The Manukau Heads, New Zealand, 10 April 1863.]

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-038

Description: Shows view of town of New Plymouth, with Sugar Loaves and harbour in background, and St Mary's Church at left. There is a ship's mast used as a flagstaff on raised plateau at right. Top corners of page rounded off. Mounted on same sheet: The Manukau Heads, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-039). On verso: Off Napier, New Zealand... 1862 (B-064-036); and, Taranaki roads...1863 (B-064-037). Inscriptions: Recto - (In ink, on backing sheet at right): Taranaki / or New Plymouth / New Zealand / Visited / 27 June 1863. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 119 x 270 mm, on sheet 305 x 386 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: 1864

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-372-f-010-2

Description: Scene at Te Papa Station, Tauranga with Ngāi Te Rangi bringing in their arms after the battle of Gate Pa. The White Ensign is flying on a flagpole. A large group of Māori is seated, with their leader, Hori Ngatai, standing in the centre. The captured British swords are plunged in the ground close to the table where the peace agreement is being signed. European buildings at upper left and in the background. Compare with A-033-010 by H G Robley Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 45, July-Dec 1864, page 429 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 185 x 240 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-028

Description: Looking north along the coastline towards Maunganui, with ships in the harbour, infantry and cavalry on the beach to the left, a Maori canoe and a rowboat in the foreground, the rowboat being hauled out to sea off the mudflats by sailors. Boxes and barrels are on the shore and military tents can be seen in the distance, with a redoubt on a foreland further off Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'The beach at Tauranga, 26 April 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 31 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Williams also used his sketch as the basis for a larger watercolour 'Tauranga, New Zealand, 23 April 1864' in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 172 x 249 mm

Date: 1864

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-128-026

Description: Digital laser copy of a privately owned watercolour. Shows a scene at Tauranga, looking towards the sea with several ships and waka in the roadstead, and tents along the water's edge. Shows Ngati Rangi seated around a large pile of rifles, taiaha and swords. A large group of Maori is seated, with their leader, Hori Ngatai standing in the centre and speaking. Compare to detail reproduced in "New Zealand's heritage", part 40, front cover; this is said to be reproduced from a picture in the National Museum. Other Titles - Ngati Rangi Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H Robley 68th L[ight] Infantry; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour laser print, image 200 x 355 mm.

Date: 1863

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-138-028

Description: A flag with a cross and three stars flying Reproduced in Cowan, James. The New Zealand wars. 1922. Vol 2, p. 463 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 203 x 155 mm Transfers: Transferred from: MS Papers 39 (Cowan collection).

Date: 1865 - 1867

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. 1865-1867].

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: E-511-024

Description: Shows shipping flag flying from pole beside railing; and large boulders and a branch in a stream, possibly the Water of Leith. Hodgkins sketched the Water of Leith frequently, including examples in this sketchbook. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil, 123 x 205 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1840 - 1865 - 1908 - 1850

By: McCormick, Arthur David, 1860-1943; Fry, Patricia Susan, 1924-2019

Reference: A-004-037/047

Description: Titles: Heke fells the flagstaff at Kororareka; Farewell to Hawaiki; Victors in the fight; The fight in Massacre Bay; A dreadful recognition; Signing the Treaty of Waitangu; Phillpotts at Oheawai; A boy's heroism: "Awake! Awake!"; Major Witchell's charge at Nukemaru; The frenzy of the Hauhau. The incantation; Butters gives the alarm - Poverty Bay. Title supplied for each image. ATL has Reginald Horsley's "New Zealand. Romance of Empire" at NZ&P 993.1 HOR Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 11 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, coloured, each image 155 x 112 mm, on sheet 203 x 135 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1870

By: Powell, David, active 1860s; Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust; Fletcher Challenge Ltd

Reference: C-112-042

Description: Shows the town's main street, with horse hitched outside hotel, a wagon going away along the street, Staite Bros Molyneux Store, an American flag hanging limp on a flagpole in the distance. There is a blacksmith's forge at right, a wagon resting on the road at left. Accompanied by an information text sheet, by Marian Minson. Dunstan Hotel built 1863. Molyneux is the old name for the Clutha River. Dated in the 1860s because trees were flourishing by 1970. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - This facsimile reproduction of an original watercolour in the Fletcher Challenge Collection, Auckland, was issued by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust in association with Fletcher Challenge Ltd, 1987.; Recto - bottom right - Edition limited to 3000 copies. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 250 x 450 mm, on sheet 400 x 600 mm.