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Date: 1864

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Lawford, John E, active 1980-1991

Reference: C-126-005

Description: Shows harbour scene form Commercial Bay looking towards the North Shore and Rangitoto Island. The prison hulk Marion is to the right of a sailing ship on the harbour and there are houses in the foreground, with the house on the left marked as belonging to Mr Jones, probably Mr Humphrey Jones Attribution on stylistic grounds. Sails on ships were painted in by John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, before he sold the painting to Dr Hogg. He based his work on the sailing ship in Charles Heaphy's watercolour "Bream Head", owned by the Library.. Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Auckland harbour Commercial Bay (Beach Rd) 1864; Recto - bottom left - Auckland harbour Oct 64; Recto - bottom centre - Mr Jones' house; Recto - bottom centre - Hulk with Maori prisoners taken at Rangiriri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 239 x 485 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by Neville Hogg from John Lawford, Auckland art dealer, 1980s?

Date: 1866

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: B-035-025

Description: Rangitoto, Devonport, North Head, sailing ships at wharf; St Mary's Catholic Church, Freeman's Bay, left foreground showing spire (added 1865; see TL 3/1/1, 19/4/1985); end of Queen St wharf, Commercial Bay (see TL 3/1/1, 3/5/1985). Compare very similar view in Williams' sketchbook E-349-b entitled: Auckland Harbour from near Freeman's Bay, July 3 1866. Supplied title. Date confirmed from presence of spire on church, added 1865. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 163 x 490 mm

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-035-017

Description: View of Rangitoto and North Head from a bushy foreshore with a jetty in the foreground. Commercial Bay is at the foot of a slightly-indicated road on the left (Queen Street) leading down to a wharf. The jetty shown is Wynyard Pier, built in 1851. One of the trees in the foreground is a Norfolk pine. The library now also holds a similar view by Warre, entitled Auckland Habour [1861-1865] (B-183-027), which has more built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink written as Auckland harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, watercolour, and crayon on photo-sensitive paper 155 x 240 mm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1853

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-004-005

Description: Shows view from harbour towards Point Britomart; identifies Colonial Hospital, Scotch Church, St Paul's Church, Barracks, Wesleyan Chapel, St Matthew's School, R.C. Church; also shows Partington's Windmill Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 164 x 286 mm on sheet 200 x 320 mm Transfers: Former frontispiece to: Swainson W. Auckland, the capital of New Zealand... London, 1853 (held at 919.31; this copy acc. 11,276). Frontispiece removed and transferred to Drawings and Prints Collection for conservation reasons..

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-044

Description: View looking across Commercial Bay, lower Queen Street, the wharves and the city towards St Matthew's and St Patrick's churches, from the Britomart Barracks. After P. J. Hogan's lithograph: No 3 Auckland, Auckland New Zealand, from Britomart Barrack. Commercial Bay, part of lower Queen Street, with new wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham Street, West Queen Street, with St Matthews Church and St Patrick (R. C.) church. 1852. See copies at C-010-004, C-010-004-a, C-010-018 & C-010-019. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p. 195. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 155 mm

Date: 1861 - 1865

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: B-183-027

Description: Shows Commercial Bay with Wynyard Wharf in the foreground, North Head and Rangitoto in the distance, viewed from Courthouse Hill (now Constitution Hill). A tent-style building sits on the slope of the hill in the foreground to the left (probably Queen St.), with three figures standing in front of it. A number of vessels, including a sailing ship, sailing boats and rowboats or waka, can be seen in the bay. In the foreground on the right can be seen a Norfolk pine amongst other trees and bush, and the smoking brick chimney and part of the roof of a house. The word harbour in the work's title is mis-spelled as habour The library also holds a very similar work by Warre entitled Auckland harbor [1864?] (B-035-017), featuring North Head, Rangitoto Island, ships in the bay and a Norfolk pine, though with less built environment in the foreground. Other Titles - Auckland Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Auckland Habour, New Zealand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 316 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase the work was put up for auction at the International Art Centre, Auckland, July 2011 (lot 47, passed in); prior to that, privately owned