Places

Date: 1876

From: Illustrated New Zealand herald, 1868-1883. Dunedin.

By: Illustrated New Zealand Herald (Newspaper)

Reference: PUBL-0047-1876-105

Description: A steep rocky path leading down to a bridge over a stream. A family with a packhorse and three other men with baggage are crossing the stream, while other laden horses and men walk up the rough path on the other side. Part of a large wooden structure can be seen to the left, possibly part of a support for a vehicle bridge Extended Title - From Illustrated New Zealand herald, No. 105, May 3rd 1876. Front cover Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 340 x 220 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-053

Description: Shows horses drawing wagon over low bridge over river on flat valley between bush-covered slopes, with mountains in the background. There are rough indications of a few buildings on the flat land in the foreground, probably houses at Otira Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. Left side of E-501-f-054 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 262 mm.

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: Jouard, E, active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40-2

Description: View into the valley of the Otira River, surrounded by hills and mountains, with large rocks in the foreground and a road with two travellers on foot. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E JOUARD Sc. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 79 x 153 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-046

Description: Shows a low bridge over a narrow river on a valley floor in the foreground, wooded slopes to left and right behind, and an imposing snowy peak in background. Stuck to same page as E-501-f-047, and E-501-f-048. May show the narrower Otira River, which drains into the Taramakau. For most of its course, the Taramakau is a broader, braided river Other Titles - Taramakau River Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone wash, 100 x 125 mm.

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-076

Description: View from the rocky river bank across a stream and bridge to high bush covered hills Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 345 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-069

Description: Shows what appears to be a rope bridge with wooden rungs, slung between posts, the nearer at right foreground, and the farther, in centre middle distance. There is bush and hill slopes in the background. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-070 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 280 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-022

Description: Shows traveller walking with pack on road at right foreground, beside gentle rapids of the river. Bush-covered hills come down to river flat, and there are rosy-tinted mountains in the background. Another very similar picture is at E-501-f-070. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 142 x 230mm.

Date: [Circa 1910s]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000729-G

Description: View of the Otira River in the Otira Gorge, with the road running alongside. Snow-covered mountains are visible in the background. Photograph taken by William Archer Price Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - Otira Gorge. [No.] 1745B Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: [188-?]

From: Post and telegraph collection :Mainly mail coach photographs ca. 1880's.

Reference: 1/4-019606-F

Description: Mail coach crossing the Otira River in flood, Otira Gorge, West Coast. Shows the stony banks of the river and a carriage pulled by five horses. Photograph taken circa 1880s, by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Other Titles - Crossing the Otira in flood Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Crossing the Otira in flood Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-022

Description: View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed. See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-070

Description: Shows road in right foreground, beside river, with wooden slopes to the riverbed, and snowy mountains in the distance. Appears to be another version of E-501-f-022, with the rapids less marked. Stuck to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-069 on verso. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 280 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-013

Description: Shows river valley and road, with mountains in background. Partially completed. Some parts not coloured. Dating: the road through Arthur's Pass was not completed until 1866, suggesting an earliest date when Hurt might have travelled through the Pass Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title].; Some pencilled guide notes to indicate required colour, in bottom left quarter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 184 x 255 mm.

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-021

Description: Shows road leading away through tall native trees, to base of snow-capped mountains. Stuck to same page as, and titled jointly with, E-501-f-020. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 140 x 84 mm.