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Date: 1864 - 1965 - 1978

From: [Various artists] :Postcards of reproductions of original watercolours in the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ. [1970s]

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-278-q-071

Description: Reproduction of Williams' original watercolour showing the Manukau Harbour and settlement at Onehunga, 1864. Woman on horseback in foreground (lower left), and several sailing ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photo-lithograph, 95 x 152 mm

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

Date: 1967 - 1974

By: Putt, Charles Ernest Henry, 1896-1975

Reference: E-278-q-004/007-A

Description: See individual cards. Drawings by Charles Putt reproduced on Greeting and Christmas cards, 1967-1974 Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs, 107 x 150 mm

Date: 1881

By: Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926

Reference: C-079-070-a

Description: Original held by Auckland City Art Gallery. One of 6 prints advertising Cowan's paper. Printed on Ambassador Gloss Art 130gsm Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Art reproduction ; photolithograph, coloured 298 x 457 mm

Date: 2006

Reference: ArtEph-2006-W-03

Description: Contains reproductions of some works, and biographical notes by Wendy Harsant. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, 210 x 148 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sian Davis, Auckland, in 2010.

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Auckland scenes] / Cranleigh Barton. - [1930s?]

Reference: A-227-050

Description: Shows two buildings, one covered in ivy situated in park type grounds, includes people standing in the grounds. Inscriptions: Recto - Signed: Cranleigh Barton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: 1881

From: Keesing, Henry A, 1826?-1896 :[Landscapes, caricatures and portraits] / H A Keesing. 1879-[1880s]

Reference: A-278-002

Description: View of the Waitemata Harbour at night with a full moon. The lighthouse at Orakei is on the right. Land and islands can be seen in the distance. In the left foreground is a partial view of a wharf with a mast head just visible beneath. In the centre foreground is a yacht and further away is a sailing ship showing its night light. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 214 mm

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: Field, Robert Nettleton, 1899-1987 :[Collection of sketches, 1926 to 1961]

Reference: A-265-015

Description: Showing trees and ferns with a wood pigeon sitting on a branch. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink, 376 x 280 mm

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-016/017

Description: An extensive view from a high point over fenced and partially cleared land, with a house and shed, and a stream to the right, the Waitemata Harbour in the background. Possibly the Tamaki area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 137 x 310 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: 1971 - 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: B-076-029-c

Description: Title from accompanying text-sheet Reproduced by courtesy of the Auckland Public Libraries Other Titles - Views in the Province of Auckland, 1862 Extended Title - Published in Stack, F R. Views in the Province of Auckland, London, [1862 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 200 x 403 mm on sheets 360 x 530 mm

Date: 1839 - 1841 - 1846 - 1848

By: New Zealand. Tourist and Publicity Department; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-003-029-a/040-a

Description: Set of looseleaf offprints originally published as a set of 12 prints in "New Zealand calendar 1974". Contents: Goldmining at the Thames [i.e. Goldmining at Thames] / J.B.C. Hoyte. - Nelson Haven, 1841 / Charles Heaphy. - The Pink Terraces, 1874 [i.e. The White Terraces, 1888 (detail)] / C.D. Barraud. - St Mark's Church, Remuera [i.e. S. Mark's, Remuera & Mt Eden, 1859] / Rev. John Kinder. - The Barracks, Napier / C.D. Barraud. - Auckland, 1848 [i.e. Auckland, New Zealand, 1848] / Lt. Gen. G.H. Page. - The Aglionby or Matukituki Valley [i.e. In the Aglionby or Matukituki Valley, looking into the Otapawa, 20th Feb. [1846]] / Sir William Fox. - In Otira Gorge, 1864 [i.e. Otira Gorge, 1864?] / Sir William Fox. - Dunedin, Otago, 1861 [i.e. Part of the town and harbour of Dunedin, Otago, N.Z. [1861?]] / W.S. Hatton. - Kahu Kahu, Hokianga River [i.e. View of the Kahu-Kahu Hokianga River [December] 1839] / Charles Heaphy. - Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860 [i.e. Mount Egmont, Taranaki, New Zealand, 1860] / Lt. Gen. C.E. Gold. - Bream Head, Whangarei / Charles Heaphy. Title from cover of calendar. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title and artist]; Recto - bottom left - Alexander Turnbull Library, / Wellington, N.Z.; Recto - bottom right - A.R. Shearer, Government Printer, / Wellington, N.Z., 1973. Quantity: 24 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 24 photolithographs, (2 sets of 12), variously sized from 157 x 238 mm, to 240 x 304 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright in the 1970s.

Date: 1863

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-038

Description: Pohutukawa flowering in the foreground of a view probably taken from the garden of Judge William Martin, Judges Bay. The view takes in North Head and Rangitoto Island in the background. Purchased with A-161-032/041. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 272 mm

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-005

Description: Native forest on Great Barrier Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 225 mm

Date: 1987 - 1895 - 1905

From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]

By: Gateway Pictures

Reference: B-123-032

Description: Shows a group of six children outside a wooden hut with wooden roof and chimney. There are two pigs in the foreground, and a cat at the far left. Pukapuka is in the Rodney District in the Auckland Region. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm

Date: 1984 - 1986

From: Shore Bennett, Beverley, 1928- :[Group of 55 design drawings for leadlight windows, 1970-1996].

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-

Reference: A-325-023

Description: Shows Jesus Christ standing in a mandorla shape with the symbols of the four evangelists around him. The elements of air, fire, earth, and water are depicted in abstract form around the mandorla. There is a double symbolism of the wind and flames of Pentecost, the living water and the tree of life for the healing of the nations. At the apex is a triquetra, a symbol for the Trinity. Centenary dates of the church, an a view of the church as it appeared in 1886, are shown at the bottom. Author's list gives date as 1984. Church centenary was 1986. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Beverley Shore Bennett M.B.E. F.M.G.P. / Miller Studios Ltd. / 1985; Verso - bottom right - Paul Hutchins / maker; Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on sheet 290 x 125 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist in 1998.

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Artist unknown :Sir William Martin's, Taurarua [1880s?] [And - Mount Egmont from New Plymouth with a settler's homestead, fences and cleared land. 1880s?]

Reference: A-090-020-1

Description: View from below a substantial house with several wings, single-storied, through an established garden. Other Titles - Judges Bay, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in (possibly) the artist's hand with "Taurarua [Auckland]" added in another hand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper glued to tan sketchbook page 128 x 194 mm on sheet 192 x 273 mm

Date: 1853 - 1858

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-144-006

Description: A view of the north side of St Paul's Church, Parnell, a Gothic revival building. There is a large fenced grave in the left foreground Copy of an ink drawing in Auckland Museum The artist's father-in-law, Rev J F Churton, was the minister at St Paul's until his death in 1853 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of drawing 105 x 153 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Spratt, Henry Thomas, 1827-1908; Smith, Barry, active 1990s

Reference: E-572

Description: Includes sketches of scenes in Taranaki, Auckland, Tauranga, Rotorua, and Wairoa. Artist attributed by inscription inside front cover. Artist assumed to be Dr Henry Thomas Spratt, rather than his son Henry Howell Spratt. See Cyclopedia of New Zealand, Volume 1, Wellington, page 884. Boxed with two sketchbooks by Jock McEwen. There is no connection with this sketchbook and the Jock McEwen sketchbooks Inscriptions: Album page - [Inside front cover]: Dr Spratt / Greytown W. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 10 leaves, interleaved with tissue, size 184 x 246 mm. Provenance: Donated by Barry Smith in 1999. Donor is descendant of William Mein Smith.