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Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: 1892

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-004

Description: In the left foreground a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the background. Other Titles - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21 1892. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21, 1892. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 898 mm on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: 1858 - 1880 - 1865 - 1890

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Lancelot, Dieudonne Auguste, 1822-1894; Terre a vol d'oiseau (France); Hochstetter, Christian Gottlieb Ferdinand von, 1829-1884; Clive Burden Ltd.

Reference: A-109-067

Description: Shows the islands and peninsulas of Auckland Harbour looking towards Rangitoto. Library has a copy of Hochstetter's article from "Le tour du monde" at q919.31 HOCH. It is dated by the inscription "I Semestre 1865" in ink at top of first page. See also the slightly differing version in Hochstetter's 1863 German version (page 4), and 1867 English version (Page 5). These are acknowledged as being from a sketch by Mr Heaphy. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour. Extended Title - From: La terre a vol d'oiseau (unknown publisher), page 867. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Le havre d'Auckland. (Voy. p. 870.) - Dessin de Lancelot. Hochstetter visited New Zealand in 1858-1859. He published "Neuseeland" in 1863. His article "Voyage a la Nouvelle-Zelande" appeared in "Le tour du monde..." vol. XI, 1er. semestre 1865, pages 273-320. This image appeared on page 273, inscribed by D. Lancelot, with C. Laplante as the engraver; it acknowledges that it is drawn after M. F. de Hochstetter. In turn Hochstetter's books acknowledge an earlier sketch by Heaphy. The Drawings and Prints copy at A-109-067 is a reproduction for the later publication (a serial?), "La Terre a vol d'oiseau". Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, black and white 116 x 147 mm, on sheet 284 x 197 mm.

Date: 1895 - 1986 - 1924 - 1903

By: Worsley, Charles Nathaniel, 1862-1923; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-019-026/026-a

Description: A view looking out to the harbour across the city Reproduction of watercolour 1924 date is an error. The artist died (in Italy) the previous year. The view could have been 1904, although the artist left New Zealand in 1903. No. 104 of an edition of 850. Quantity: 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Col. photolithographs 660 x 1010 mm ; Printed area measures: 240 x 750 mm Provenance: Acquired by legal deposit.

Date: 1893 - 1924

By: F A H (Artist), active 1893

Reference: E-520

Description: Contains watercolour sketches for calendar months: cyclamen for May, poppy and wheat for January, cornflower for February, primula for September, violet for ---;sketches of Auckland Harbour, North Head and Rangitoto from Mount Eden and the Domain; and sketches of small children in greeting-card style. Deposit slip notes that book is dated 1893-1924, but this later date not found during cataloguing in 1996. Inscriptions: Album page - (On fly-leaf): To dear Fan-fan from Mother and Father, With much love and a Merry Christmas, Opotiki 1893. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Fawn buckram-bound sketchbook, 21 leaves, 134 x 189 mm. Provenance: Anonymous deposit by mail in 1994.

Date: 1870 - 1890

By: Hetley, Georgina Burne, 1832-1898

Reference: A-175-005

Description: Shows a Maori canoe on shore at the mouth of a small stream at the foot of a cliff in the foreground, with a man wrapped in a blanket standing at the stern of the canoe, another figure seated in the prow. Yachts and ships are in Auckland harbour in the middle distance. Mt Victoria and North Head are in the background, with houses along the shoreline below Mount Victoria. The peak of Rangitoto is in the distance. The view may be from close to the modern central city foreshore, possibly from St Mary's Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 139 x 350 mm

Date: 1900-1910

From: Lightbourne, Ruth Elizabeth (Dr), 1949- : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10177-1

Description: Stereoscopic prints taken circa 1900 around New Zealand, by unidentified photographers. Includes images of a ferry coming into Auckland, an unidentified man photographed with Rangitoto Island in the background, various waterfalls and rivers, farmland, a thermal area [geyser?], mangroves, a monument with maori carving and a bust of Queen Victoria, an unidentified town, and a man on a kneeling horse. Quantity: 12 b&w stereoscopic cards. Physical Description: Stereoscopic cards

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-054/055

Description: Shows the view from the top of Rangitoto Island, towards the islands and headlands further east, probably Motutapu, Motuihe and Waiheke. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Pages 54-55. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on double spread of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on double page, 182 x 540 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1880 - 1895

From: Ryan, Thomas, 1864-1927 :Sketchbook. ca 1880-1895.

Reference: E-594-050/051

Description: Shows the view from the pole (in the right forground) on the top of Rangitoto Island, towards North Head, Auckland City, and beyond. Extended Title - From his Sketchbook, 1880-1895. Pages 50-51. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on double spread of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil drawing, on double page, 182 x 540 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Bill Power, grandson of the artist, via Dunbar Sloane, Auckland, in July 2001.

Date: 1895 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

Reference: E-894-078

Description: Watercolour shows a view across Auckland Harbour from a high point, towards North Head and Rangitoto Island. Extended Title - In Writing album [New Zealand autograph album, ca 1895], page [78] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on album page, 225 x 180 mm.

Date: 1889 - 1890

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-027-2

Description: Rangitoto island seen from the Waitemata Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash, 59 x 204 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

By: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm)

Reference: E-068-038

Description: Two tree ferns to the left, North Head and Rangitoto with several ships in Waitemata Harbour Text on image, lower right, reads: "A merry Christmas" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 87 x 127 mm

Date: [Circa 1860s]

From: Marvin, W G (Captain) :Marvin family photographs

By: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Marvin, William, 1834-1915

Reference: PA1-q-320

Description: Album of photographs taken during the 1860s by various photographers. All the images are related to Colonel William Marvin (1834-1915) who came to New Zealand circa 1858 and was possibly attached to the 70th Regiment of Foot during the New Zealand wars. There are many photographs relating to military activity, including military working parties at Fort Britomart; military and naval camps at Maungatawhiri Creek, Queen's Redoubt, Drury, Ngaruawahia and Albert Barracks; a monument to the 43rd Regiment at Gate Pa near Tauranga; Potatau's tomb with a sentry guarding it; and the Auckland cemetery. Many of the images are of Auckland, including `Hale's Boarding House, where I first slept in N.Z.'; `The Masonic Hotel where I was made a mason in 1861'; `My last batchelor home near Constitution Hill green, next door to the Dacres'; `St. Mary's where I was married 4th August 1862'; a long sequence showing Queen Street from different angles in 1866'; and various homes that he knew, including Heaphy's house in St George's Bay, Dillon Bell's House in Parnell, and `Little Sutton' in St. George's Bay. Other images of interest include a mining camp at Coromandel; the tree on which Volkner was hanged, with a seated group of Maori beside a whare; a Maori church that is completely thatched, in the Waikato; and two views of the sailing ship Ida Ziegler [i.e. Zeigler] `In which we returned from N.Z. round Cape Horn, 29th Jany to 1st May 1867'. Photographs in England are all related to Tipner Barracks near Portsmouth, and Malpas Cemetery, Newport Monmouthshire. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with albumen prints. Label attached to cover `Pictures of N.Z. (N. Island) & Tipner with captions by Col. Marvin'. Textured black cover; 30 x 24 cm

Date: 1896 - 1914

From: Various artists :[Two New Zealand autograph albums including watercolour landscapes of Auckland. ca 1895 - 1896]

Reference: E-895-007

Description: Watercolour sketch shows three scenic vignettes, of Mount Taranaki, Auckland Harbour and Rangitoto, and a southern lake (possibly Pukaki), with tendrils of clematis, and some fern leaves aranged around thescenes. Extended Title - From "Writing album; album for poetry, prose & autographs" (begun 1896), page [7 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour sketch on album page 250 x 200 mm.

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014-a

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm