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New Zealand scenery album 3

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1885]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-387

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers before 1886, of whom F A Coxhead and James Ring are identifiable. Most of the images have captions, and names of places and buildings etc. are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 20 x 26 cm

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Hurt, Theodore Octavius fl 1860-1871 :Castle Hills on West Coast Road, Canterbury. [Bet...

Date: 1865 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-035

Description: Shows limestone rock formations, outcrops on grassy hillside, in left foreground; distant brown hills in right background. Other Titles - Castle Hill Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 185 x 270 mm.

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[Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :The beach at Sumner looking from the Chch Rd towa...

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-011/012

Description: Looking across water with Shag Rock on the left, Sumner Beach on the right (with sand-hills noted), Cave Rock centre and Scarborough Hill in the background. Cave Rock has a flagstaff on top. There are two boats moored in the still water Hodgkins visited Banks Peninsula (including Akaroa), Lyttelton, Sumner and Christchurch in 1870 Hodgkins produced two watercolours based on this sketch - Entrance to the Sumner River, Canterbury, from the Christchurch road, reference number C-110-011; and The Shag Rock, Sumner, reference number A-027-018 Extended Title - Christchurch Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.

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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :Scene in the Weka Pass, Canterbury. [1877]

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Duvergier, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-30-1

Description: A covered waggon being pulled by a team of horses on the Weka Pass Road, with the limestone 'frog rocks' ahead on the road, and the river to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - DUVERGIER. Sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 101 x 175 mm

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Hurt, Theodore Octavius fl 1860-1871 :Sumner Bar, Heathcote River, N.Z. [1861-1871].

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-051

Description: Shows view from Redcliffs, (now Beachville Road) showing the outlet from the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, between the Brighton Spit and Shag Rock, with Cave Rock and Scarborough Heads behind. A gloomy day with low cloud. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 172 mm.

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Miln, H M :Burton Brothers photographs

Date: Before 1886

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PAColl-0585

Description: 22 Burton Bros prints of New Zealand scenes. They include the battle field of Orakau from Kihikihi; a family near Cave Rock on Sumner beach; a view over north Dunedin showing the university in the distance; a view of Akaroa from across the harbour; the boulders on Moeraki beach; and a number of the Pink and White Terraces. Quantity: 22 b&w original photographic print(s) on card.

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