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Date: 1889 - 1921

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931; Styche, William Armsby, 1860-1941

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-4/23/304/Acc.54990

Description: Tourist map of the Mount Cook District - Shewing the Hermitage Accommodation House, mountain ranges, glaciers, tracks, reserves etc. T N Brodrick, District Surveyor, 1889 to 1891. Drawn by W A Styche. Inset mounted - Mount Cook Aorangi Tour. Scale 16 miles to 1 inch. Imprint W De Vere. Map stamped "Proof Government Printing Office, 2 March 1921". Compare with similar map published without the word "Tourist" in the title, by Department of Lands and Survey, appended to report in Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, 1903, C-1, page 82. Includes some minor manuscript annotations in red ink. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, scale 1 mile to 1 inch, 51 x 40.5 cm

Date: 1889

From: New Zealand Geographic Board: Selection of maps of New Zealand

By: New Zealand Geographic Board; Brodrick, Thomas Noel, 1855-1931

Reference: MapColl-NZGB-4/23/303/Acc.54989

Description: Map of the Tasman and Hooker Glaciers of Mount Cook. T N Brodrick, Assistant Surveyor, 1889. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Printed map on linen-backed paper, scale 120 chains to 1 inch, 34 x 24 cm

Date: 1882 - 1885

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1879-1888]

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-035-q-1-040

Description: A view from a snow-covered rocky outcrop towards mountains with the sweep of the Tasman Glacier below. Strongly similar to a watercolour in the Library's collection by W S Green, painted after his attempt on Mount Cook in 1882 (C-133-045). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream paper in sketchbook, page size 151 x 240 mm

Date: 1884 - 1885

From: Archibald Dudingston Willis (Firm) :[Sample album of greeting cards, produced by A D Willis of Wanganui. ca 1885]

Reference: E-936-f-021

Description: Page of coloured chromolithographs showing native plants and New Zealand landscape scenes, prepared as greeting cards and presented in a sample album Quantity: 4 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 album page containing four chromolithographs, 145 x 105 mm

Date: 1872

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

Reference: E-932-007

Description: Shows a view of an unidentified mountain, with lower-lying hills, a line of trees and a river or lake in the foreground. This is possibly a sketch of Mount Cook, taken from the far side of Lake Matheson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 127 x 180 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1880 - 1846 - 1890

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Templer, Cherie, 1856?-1915

Reference: E-943-q-030

Description: Coastline of Arahura district, Westland, looking south with Mount Cook in the distance and a sailing ship offshore, near the mouth of the Taramakau River. Similar images are held by the British Library, in a private collection in Basel and reproduced in Hochstetter's New Zealand (Stuttgart, 1867). As this version has the initials 'C.C.' (Cherie Connell), it is possible that she painted this copy herself. Originally dates from Heaphy's five-month long exploration from Nelson to the West Coast near Hokitika, in company with William Fox, Thomas Brunner and Kehu, March-August 1846. They were the first Pakeha to visit the Poutini Ngai Tahu settlements in Westland and to establish Mount Cook as New Zealand's highest mountain. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.C. [owner's initials] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on tinted paper, 223 mm (diameter), pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm

Date: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-017

Description: Green and his companions crossing a crevasse in the Linda Glacier, Mount Cook. The three men are roped together and have ice-axes. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-016

Description: Green and his companions sheltering in their sleeping bags beside a large rock, part way up Mount Cook. The mountain to the right is Mount Tasman Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-533

Description: New Zealand views taken circa 1870s to 1880s by E Wheeler & Son. Scenes include both North Island and South Island views, and all places named are listed above, as are businesses, ships and buildings, where possible. Items of interest include a photograph of trout taken by the Upper Selwyn River "A good day's sport. 38 fish, with the fly, 2 rods" with two large baskets alongside. Two scenes show different means of transport across rivers where there are no bridges. One is the "Cage bridge" (or Flying Fox) across the Teremakau (Taramakau) River, and the other shows a ferry punt across the Buller River. A number of views show farming activities, including a scene near Cheviot of about 20,000 sheep being drafted for shearing; and one of a wagon laden with wool bales being hauled by a team of bullocks. A view of gold sluicing is shown in this album with the locality indistinct. The same view is shown in the first Wheeler Album (PA1-o-532) in which the locality is named as Waimea. Other Titles - New Zealand Views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, entitled "New Zealand Views. Wheeler & Son" in gold lettering on spine; 26.5 x 33.0 cm

Date: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-023

Description: Green and his two companions making their way up the final slope almost at the summit of Mount Cook. Green and his companions did not quite reach the summit in their climb, but they were very close. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1875 - 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: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: PUBL-0016-32

Description: According to the accompanying text "...from a sketch by Mr W. M. Hodgins [sic] of Dunedin, who visited it in 1875 ... This noble peak ... is taken from a point a few miles up the Hooker Glacier; the dark spur [on the left] is the lower ridge of Mount Sefton, the other [on the right] a portion of the lower or main spur of Mount Cook. The glacier is seen issuing from the peak and winding its way down the valley..." Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 289 x 240 mm

Date: 1882

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919; Baldock, Belinda, -1999

Reference: A-329-012

Description: The central peak is Mount Cook, with Mount Dampier to the right (across the Green Saddle), and the Linda Glacier (named by Green after his wife) descending from the centre of Mount Cook. The view is probably taken from Mount Dixon. In the foreground is an ice plateau with a crevasse. Framer's label (now discarded): 'Framed by Combridge & Co., printsellers, picture framers &c., 19 & 20 Grafton Street, Dublin'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 252 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: 1882

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919; Baldock, Belinda, -1999

Reference: A-263-009

Description: Shows 2 climbers, packs on backs in a rocky landscape. A scene from Green, Kaufmann and Boss' attempt to scale Mount Cook, February - March 1882. Title from ink inscription in artist's hand, at foot of card (numbered 7) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 171 x 245 mm on mounted card 270 x 370 mm Provenance: For provenance and history see his Mount Cook from the Linda Glacier (A-263-008)

Date: 1890 - 1896

From: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :New Zealand mountain flora. [1890s?]

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: E-001-q-023

Description: Shows plant of Mount Cook lily in flower, in front of a backdrop of Mount Cook and a rosy sky. Accompanied by typescript page of textual commentary. Numbered "22" in pencil on both illustration and text. Extended Title - In her "New Zealand mountain flora" [189-?]. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - (In pencil):22 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on sheet in box.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 279 x 222 mm.

Date: 1895

From: Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936 :Photographs relating to Antarctica and mountaineering

Reference: PA1-q-137-22-2

Description: May Kinsey, dressed for climbing, seated at the entrance of a tent near The Hermitage, Mount Cook. An ice pick and coil of rope lean on the other side of the tent. Photographed by Joseph James Kinsey in 1895. A cropped version of this photograph is at PA1-q-137-30-2. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - J J Kinsey 1895; Album page - beneath image - May `at home'; Album page - beneath image - Camp near `The Hermitage' Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print

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: 1882

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-019

Description: A snow-filled valley and mountain peaks seen from the upper slopes of Mount Cook, from the head of the Tasman Glacier. The round shape on the skyline is the Hochstetter Dome. At the base of the rocky surface to the right is the Darwin Corner. Other Titles - North-north-east Aoraki Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1875

From: Gully, John, 1819-1888 :New Zealand scenery chomolithographed after original water-color drawings by John Gully with descriptive letterpress by Dr Julius von Haast. Dunedin, Henry Wise & Company ; London Marcus Ward & Co., 1877

Reference: PUBL-0010-06

Description: A view from the sea on the West Coast, looking towards foothills and snow-crowned Mount Cook (Aoraki) on the right and Mount Tasman on the left. Two small ships are also visible Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 308 x 384 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.