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Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-018-003

Description: View along the coastline with Mount Cook in the distance. A pool to the left, with a white heron standing in it. Several tall trees framing the view. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. Gully; Mount recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 340 x 498 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-128

Description: Shows a view of the lake with mountains behind. The original for John Gully's watercolour copy Lake Pukaki [1862], reference number C-096-008 Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 18 [incorrectly referenced as C-097-064]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 150 x 640 mm.

Date: 1865

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

Reference: E-501-f-001

Description: Shows the back of a man standing in centre foreground with a knapsack slung over his shoulder; he looks at a scene of a log-strewn West Coast beach, a frisking dog, a man kneeling in the middle distance with two pack horses. There are foothills at left, and snowy alps in the centre distance. At right two yachts sail on a choppy sea. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 340 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-062

Description: An extensive view of mountains, the terminal moraine of the Tasman Glacier in the foreground and two more distant glaciers indicated. Mount Cook (unnamed) is on the left and Mounts Haidinger and De la Beche in the centre are named. Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 15. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour on 2 sheets of wove paper glued at centre 124 x 572 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-009

Description: A broad river valley surrounded by alps, with the glacier in the centre background, Mt Cook the highest snowy peak to its left. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Based on Julius von Haast's field sketch: The great Tasman Glacier, 16 April 1862 (Located at C-097-061-1) Inscriptions: Signed J. Gully; Mount recto - Mt Sefton: Mt Stokes; Mt Cook; Mt Haidinger; Mt de la Beche Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 620 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-012

Description: Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by J. Haast, 1864 Inscriptions: Signed: John Gully; Mount verso - Mt Cook; Mt Hardinger; Mt de la Beche; Great Tasman Glacier; Mt Elie de Beaumont; Malte Brun Range; Mt Darwin eastern spurs; Mt Tyndall; Murchison Glacier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 431 x 610 mm (Canterbury, N.Z. no. 12)

Date: 1860 - 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-071

Description: Shows mountains and glacier with a small house on river bank in foreground Mountaineer J.D.Pascoe suggests the glacier could be the Fox, and the mountains Douglas Peak (centre sharp peak) and Mount Haast on the right, rather than Mt Cook. Other Titles - Douglas Peak, Mount Haast and the Fox Glacier, 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 127 x 230 mm

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-066

Description: Panoramic view looking towards Moorhouse Range, with Mount Sefton on the left and Mount Maud on the right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title; Recto - above image - Mt Sefton No 215. Moorhouse Range 216. Mt Maud 217. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 145 x 410 mm

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

By: Haast, Johann Franz Julius von, 1822-1887

Reference: C-097-079

Description: Shows a long view of the Southern Alps, seen from South Westland, with the peaks marked. Mt [Elie de] Beaumont and the Agassiz Glacier are on the left (above Franz Josef Glacier, which is not visible), followed by Mount De la Beche. Mount Cook is the tallest peak, roughly in the centre, the Hooker Range further to the right, Mount Hooker, the 'Gray Range' in the distance to the far right, ending in the sea. The moraine noted by Haast indicates that the Franz Josef Glacier had reached at least as far as the mouth of the Waiho River in a past era. Other Titles - Waiho River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 165 x 990 mm.

Date: 1860

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-051-1

Description: View looking south down the West Coast from the mouth of the Grey River. The coast and the Southern Alps can be seen with several peaks marked, including Kaimata. The highest peak is Mount Cook Title is inscribed in German. The Library has a photograph of a wood engraving from an unknown publication, based on this drawing. The wood engraving is titled 'The Southern Alps, view from the mouth of the River Grey, from sketches by Dr J Haast', negative MNZ-0299-1/4 Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in ink (in German); also recto, top right, a further title: Ansicht zu sudlichen Alpen um von dem nordlichen Ufer des Mawhere, 1 Juni 1860 [View of the Southern Alps from the north bank of the Mawhere] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet, 110 x 405 mm.

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain); Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-011

Description: The base of the Mueller Glacier in the foreground, the Hooker Glacier central and Mount Cook forming a large part of the background. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - John Gully [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 610 x 450 mm

Date: 1865

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-028

Description: Shows a panorama looking north and south from the mouth of the Hokitika River with shipwrecks near the bar to the right, the river winding inland to the left, the town and wharves to the far left and the Southern Alps in the background. Many peaks are identified, including, from left, North Range Kanieri, South Range Kanieri, Browning Pass, Mount Cook, Mount Stokes, Mount Hooker Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 31. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 128 x 1325 mm

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-030-1-right

Description: Shows panoramic view of Lake Ohau and the mountain ranges behind it, including Mount Cook. On verso of C-097-030. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet, part of total measuring 90 x 1300 mm (on verso of C-097-030)

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-030-1-left

Description: Shows panoramic view of Lake Ohau and the mountain ranges behind it, including Mount Cook. On verso of C-097-030. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet, part of total measuring 90 x 1300 mm (on verso of C-097-030)

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-010

Description: A broad river valley, surrounded with steep foothills, Mount Cook and other mountains of the Southern Alps in the background Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864, and based on drawings by Haast Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Mt Sefton; Moorhouse Range; Mueller Glacier; Mt Stokes; Mt Cook; Recto - bottom left - Signed: J Gully Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 438 x 615 mm (Canterbury, N.Z. no. 10)

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-096-001

Description: Looking along the beach from Greymouth, south towards the Southern Alps, especially Mount Cook. Two ships on the sea. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by Julius von Haast, London, 1864 Reproduced as a "Turnbull Print", 1982 Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - Kaimatau; Mt Tyndall; Mt Cook; Mt Stokes; Mt Hooker Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 275 x 630 mm (Canterbury, N.Z., no. 1)

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn, 1799-1878

Reference: B-035-019

Description: View of the Hokitika Bar from the north bank looking south, with shipwrecks, a paddle steamer, jetty and sheds in the foreground, Mount Cook in the distance On the verso, a note in ink by the artist, two small drawings in pencil of possibly the same large two-storied house seen from different angles, pencil notes in another hand 'By W. F. Evelyn Liardet' and '?1870 c' A visitor to the Library on 10 September 2013 suggested that the paddle-steamer in the view was the 'Lioness' captained by George Whitford, a relation by marriage to the artist. The ship's name is not visible on the watercolour. The paddle-steamer Lioness, a similar-looking vessel, with its name visible on its starboard side, appears in a lithograph by Liardet 'View of the North Shore, Port of Melbourne, 1862' (Ref D-002-015) on the right, in the foreground. Mount Cook / Aoraki had a height of 12,349 feet, not 14,000 feet at the time this view was painted. Other Titles - Hokitika Inscriptions: Verso - View of Hokatiki Entrance to the River Hokatiki. Distant view of Mt Cook 40 m from coast, 30 m from Hokatiki, 14000 F, seen 100 m on clear day. S. spit dirty gray colour headland of the shore timbered opposite side of the low land densely timbered. Mt Cook gully steep and hazy. The ocean rolls in with fearful surges and has carried away great parts of the township always in danger. The black birch timber grows [text ends here. In ink, in the hand of the artist] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 250 mm

Date: 1862 - 1872 - 1864

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Teschemaker, Frederick William, 1834-1878; Teschemaker, Thomas John Cornelius, 1840-1919

Reference: D-007-003

Description: The Mackenzie Plains from near Haldon. From the centre background to the left is the Ohau River; the centre Ben Ohau; near the right Pukaki River. Mount Cook is the highest peak, just right of centre in the Southern Alps in the background. Also showing are Simons Hill, Marys Range, Tekapo River, Grays Hills, Mount Maggie (the isolated hill on the plains), Aiguilles (the needle rocks in the foreground) and Kirkliston Range (the hills in the right foreground from which the view is taken). Signed and titled in pencil below image. Date supplied by Dr R. Collins, 23/5/1985 (see also TL 3/1/1, 15/9/1983). Drawing possibly commissioned by Walter Black in 1872. This is suggested in a letter to the Library AT13/14/1 20 September 2002, from information supplied by descendants of Walter Black. The same letter also mentions a preliminary pencil sketch for this view owned by the Mackenzie District Council. Other Titles - fecit. Birdseye Inscriptions: Title from earlier mount inscribed by artist and discarded by previous owners. Title from photograph of drawing in its earlier mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 402 x 869 mm Provenance: Donation: Estate of Mrs J.E. Grigg, daughter of Mr and Mrs T. Teschemaker, of Haldon Station, who commissioned the drawing, 27 March 1984. (see TL 3/1/1/4, Feb 1984; and 3/1/1, 29/4/1985).

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-030-1-centre

Description: Shows panoramic view of Lake Ohau and the mountain ranges behind it, including Mount Cook. On verso of C-097-030. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet, part of total measuring 90 x 1300 mm (on verso of C-097-030)

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-064

Description: A view from a high point looking straight up the glacier to Mount Cook. Steep bush-clad hills are on both sides of the glacier Reproduced in: Paul, Janet. "Twelve water colours of glaciers in the Province of Canterbury", 'Turnbull Library Record, volume 7, issue 2, October 1974, page 25. Reproduced in: Burrows, Colin James. 'Julius Haast in the Southern Alps'. Canterbury University Press, 2005, plate 16. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - title and date in ink in the hand of Julius von Haast Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 145 mm.