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Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-040

Description: Shows St Mary's Anglican church, in the foreground. The Sugar Loaf Islands are in the left background cf A229/10; watercolour of same scene. St Mary's Anglican church was completed in 1847. Crawford's other sketches of New Plymouth are dated 1847. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-010

Description: Shows St Mary's Anglican Church at New Plymouth cf. A229/040; pencil study for this work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 116 x 193 mm

Date: 1847 - 1860

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-038

Description: Shows Pukaka pa on Marsland hill, Mt Egmont, St Mary's Church and Huatoki stream (identified and dated by M. Alington, 26/5/81). Title from verso Crawford visited Taranaki in 1847, but may have visited later as well Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on card 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-005

Description: Shows a small single-storied house with a cob chimney (?) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1848

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-004

Description: A view from the south end of Evans Bay looking north up the bay. To the right is part of Miramar Peninsula, with a hut and the mouth and exit structure of the tunnel built by the artist to drain the shallow lake at the lowest point of Miramar Peninsula. There are 3 small rowboats or canoes on the still water, and a further rowboat is pulled up on the shore to the right, in the middle distance. In the distance on the left are the hills of Roseneath and those to the west of the harbour (Khandallah) in the far distance. Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the North end of Burnham water. The tunnel was cut by Mr Crawford to drain Burnham water into Evans Bay, and was the first tunnel made in N.Z. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-002

Description: View of New Plymouth and Egmont from the sea. Shows a rowboat on the sea in the foreground, and a church and two houses on the shore. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-001

Description: Bridge over small stream in the foreground, a fenced in house with a tall gable and an outbuilding, with several trees in its garden in the middle ground, Mt Taranaki in the background See Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia by J. C. Crawford, London, 1880, p. 86, where Crawford mentions visiting "the parsonage near the Waiwakaio" in the summer of 1847. The parsonage for St Mary's was at Te Henui, some two miles away from the church. It had half an acre of land with it. Its first occupant was William Bolland, who died on 29 May 1847, presumably shortly after Crawford's visit. Inscriptions: Verso - title See related preliminary drawing at A-229-042 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Wormit, Fife, Scotland, by descent from the artist.

Date: ca1845

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: PAColl-1503

Description: Photographed drawing of Miramar Peninsular, Port Nicholson by J C Crawford Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-007

Description: A shed-like house made of upright wooden slats, with an open door and two small windows at the near end. Outside the front door are two pigs. There is bush behind the house. The property was called Pihautea, at Kahutara, near Featherston Displayed in "Paradise" (Gifts to the nation), National Library Gallery, January - April 2005. A wood engraving version of this drawing was published in Crawford, J C. Travels in New Zealand and Australia. p. 83 This view may show the first property built on the Bidwill's farm. A second group of buildings may be shown in William Mein Smith's drawing 'Pihautea. C R Bidwill Esqr' [1849 or later] (reference number A-035-005) Other Titles - Bidwill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 114 x 193 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-003

Description: View across a small lake (Burnham Water) on Miramar (originally Hataitai) Peninsula towards J C Crawford's "Glendavar" homestead nestled amongst the hills of Mount Crawford. Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the north end of the lake, Burnham Water. The lake was drained by Crawford in 1858 to provide further land. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm Provenance: Crawford family, Fife, Scotland.

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-008

Description: Kaiwharawhara stream and bridge in foreground; across the stream is a raupo hut and John Lodge's two-storeyed public house (also known as the Rainbow Hotel or Kaiwharawhara Hotel). The raupo whare is either one built for road-makers, or the immigration barracks built by Te Kaeaea (Taringa Kuri) to house Scottish colonists put ashore at Kaiwharawhara in December 1840. The area is shown before the 1855 earthquake, which raised the flat land in this part, and made the stream more shallow. The road up the hill on the near side of the stream is the Porirua Bridle Path, 6 feet wide. On the far side of the stream is the original Porirua coach road. (Information from Kapi-Mana news, Vol 23 no. 14, 10 March 1981, p. 22, by William Secker). Original deposited by on indefinite loan by Brigadier H N Crawford, August 1968. (See TL 2/56). Bequeathed to the Library in 1993 See also Onslow Historian, Vol 6 no 3, 1976, p. 9. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1848

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-009

Description: View from behind the home of J. C. Crawford 'Glendavar', showing fenced paddocks, the house, the lake Burnham Water (later drained by Crawford), the Seatoun hills on the left, Maupuia hills on the right and Cook Strait in the distance Glendavar was J C Crawford's cattle farm at the North end of Burnham water, Miramar Other Titles - Cook Straits in distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 254 mm