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Date: [ca 1855-1930]

By: Wishart, Betty Sylvia, 1909-1990; Barnett, Sally, active 1995

Reference: PAColl-4855

Description: Photographs relate to the Fougere, Beamish and Wishart families of the Chatham Islands. A family tree is included in the collection. As well as people there are photographs of Waitangi, the hotel, the race track on race days, race horses and other locations in the Chatham Islands. There are also post cards with letters from Jack and Sydney Wishart while on military service in Europe during the First World War Source of title - Title supplied by Library These photographs belonged to Miss Betty Wishart (died 1990). Betty was a daughter of Violet Beamish and Elvyn Wishart of the Chatham Islands. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 8 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 2 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints Provenance: She was an artist and an aunt of the donor, Sally Barnett

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-019-1

Description: A general view of Nelson with the Cathedral to the centre left, a fenced hill below it, and a large house on lower ground to the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 73 x 122 mm

Date: 1859 - 1860

By: Jordan, F, active 1860?

Reference: Eph-D-SHIP-1860-01

Description: Arrangement of text, with a flag with a star on it at either side of the masthead title. The sheet is a compendium of articles from previous issues, dating from no. 1 on 17 December 1859. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on both sides of newsprint sheet, 570 x 440 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by F Jordan, "Carrick, Oakland Terrace, St John Hill, Wanganui. (His name and address appears at the top left corner of the front page)

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-020-09

Description: A half-length frontal portrait of an unnamed Maori man of Petone Pa. He has a moko, is wearing a European cap and is wrapped in a blanket or flax cloak. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 122 x 75 mm

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-004

Description: The left side of a two-page panorama, with North Head and Rangitoto in the background, seen from a hill above Judges Bay. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1852 - 1858 - 1854 - 1863

From: Rees, William Gilbert, 1827-1898 : Papers

By: Rees, William Gilbert, 1827-1898

Reference: E-199-q

Description: Comprises: 1 ink drawing, 3 pencil and wash, 10 watercolour, 18 pencil, 20 pencil and Chinese white drawings. Subjects: Scenes on voyage from England to Australia, 1852, including Trinidade, Bass Straits, shipboard life; New South Wales sheep stations, 1852-53; voyage from England to New Zealand, 1858; New Zealand views, 1859, 63, 83, 84, including Matanaka, Buckler Burn mining camp, Lake Tekapo. Other sketches removed prior to donation Title from ink inscription on fly leaf. Titles inscribed in album Inscriptions: Some items signed W G Rees, or W G R Stewart Grace Rees inherited the album from his father, Cecil Walter Rees, after whom Cecil and Walter Peaks, Lake Wakatipu, were named. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Pencil or watercolour, 580 x 127 mm to 170 x 250 mm ; 310 x 255 mm, 1/2 green calf Finding Aids: See shelf list for individual details..

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-033

Description: View of Lyttelton from across the harbour towards its south end, near Governor's Bay Attribution on grounds of style and internal evidence of the collection (A-048/027-051, B-064/021, C-064-003). Title and date from pencil inscription on verso Other Titles - From gully beyond Dampier's bay.... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 252 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-068

Description: Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, sizes varying

Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1848 - 1850

From: [Turnbull, Henry Hume] d 1858 :[New Zealand and Pacific sketchbook, 1848 to 1856]

By: Turnbull, Henry Hume, -1858

Reference: E-454-q-029

Description: The roof and fence of a house in the left foreground, a road crossing the picture plane, clusters of houses, a small church with steeple. A flat-topped hill in the middle distance is topped with a redoubt and there are higher hills in the distance. The scene is reminiscent of Wanganui, although the topography is not quite right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 180 x 259 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England, 1993

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-040-1

Description: A view from the Western Hills above the Hutt Road, looking towards the end of the Miramar Peninsula with the Wellington Harbour entrance to the left in the distance. Bush in the foreground and Cook Strait in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 121 x 171 mm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-019

Description: A general view of Nelson, a view near Nelson, the Tasman Range from Motueka, a view along the Boulder Bank, a coastal view near Motueka and a canoe prow from Ngauranga, Wellington Quantity: 6 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: E-144-053-b

Description: A stream surrounded by trees, a hill behind to the right. Possibly the Tuamarina Stream Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 179 x 250 mm

Date: 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-062

Description: Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt, Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in

Date: 1851 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-077-2

Description: An interior view of Rangiatea Church, Otaki, looking towards the east windows. Three Maori are standing in the right foreground. Tukutuku panels are visible between the beams and the altar (or kneelers?) also appear to be made of plaited flax. Kowhaiwhai patterns are on the rafters Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 220 x 157 mm

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-011

Description: A series of quick sketches. A two-storied house with another at right-angles (or the same house seen from a different angle) is the most finished. It may show the artist's house at Amuri. There are fifteen drawings of men's faces, including one of a moustached man with upper body including, possibly in a military uniform. There are several cows drawn from several angles and one horse's head. There is also a small drawing of two stick-figure men lining up to fight one another with seated figures behind them. The drawing is undated but the details are likely to have been observed at Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: B-084-009

Description: Shows a distant view of the town from the far bank of the Whanganui River. York and Rutland Stockades can be seen on the hills at the left, with the spire of Christ Church beyond the houses below. Shakespeare Bluff is across the river to the right. The peak of Mt Ruapehu rises in the distance Title appears to have been added at a later date. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil in the hand of C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1855 - 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :Fragmentary sketches & odds & ends; sketches in Taranaki New Zealand 1856 / W.S. New Zealand rough sketches, 1856.

Reference: E-441-032

Description: Five men hauling a canoe Inscriptions: Recto - centre - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 75 x 33 mm