Places

Date: between 1863 and 1872

By: Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873

Reference: PAColl-0105

Description: Views of towns, houses and people in Canterbury including one of Dr Barker. Includes: (i) Avonside Church, 5 Feb, 1870, (ii) Prince Alfred, Market Place, 11 April, 1869, (iii) A. Cox and family 22 May 1871, (iv) St Michael's Church and parsonage, 15 June 1872, (v) Self [Dr Barker] at Lyttelton, 1868, (vi) Guise Brittan's Lansdowne on the Halswell, 4 Nov. 1863, (vii) Fairfield, 28 Aug. 1863, (vii) Orari Groge, 1872, (ix) Hoon Hay, 3 Jan. 1868, (x) Geraldine and (xi) Mount Peel?. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-009

Description: The first buildings around the Avon River, in what was to become central Christchurch. Flax growing in the foreground and a bridge over the river. The Port Hills are in the distance. The area shown is Oxford Terrace, with the Worcester Street bridge on the right in the middle distance. The dark two-storied house left of centre is the house of Dr A C Barker. The central two-storied house is that of William Guise Brittan. The Lands Office is left of the bridge Copied from an engraving in "Illustrated London News" April 9,1853 p. 268 which was after a sketch by Dr A C Barker Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 387 x 228 mm Provenance: Purchase: A H Turnbull from English dealer Albert Berthel, of Richmond, 1914.

Date: 1851

By: Ffitch, Henry, 1840-1918; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: G-241

Description: Shows a view over the Avon River towards the Port Hills, with the houses of Dr Alfred Barker, Mr Guise Brittan and the Lands Office all on Oxford Terrace, close to the Worcester Street Bridge. Dr Barker's house is shown tarred. There is a flag flying outside the Lands Office. A more distant building is the Lyttelton Hotel. A bullock team waits by the riverside, and there is a horse and rider further away on Oxford Terrace. The near side of the river has flax, and a cabbage tree at the right. The view is similar to an original sketch by Dr A C Barker done in 1851, a version of which was reproduced in the Illustrated London news, volume 22, no 616 (9 April 1853), page 268. As the artist is thought to have been only 11-12 years old in 1851, the painting is probably done from memory, or copied from one of Dr A C Barker's sketches, or a reproduction of one of Barker's sketches in the Illustrated London news. There is another version of a very similar view by Ffitch or Fitch, in the Canterbury Museum, also an oil painting. It includes a tent, and has no horse. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 500 x 330 mm. Provenance: Previously the work had been in a farmhouse on the West Coast.