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Date: 1862 - 1880

From: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889 :[Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford and Samuel Deighton. 1860-1880]

Reference: E-926-037

Description: Shows a view looking out from the interior of a permanent sleeping shed, with the artist's legs and those of Samuel Deigton stretched out in the foreground. There is a knapsack and a kete in the left foreground, and a figure in a feather cloak sits outside, just beyound a support pole of the shelter. A campfire is burning at the left, with a billy or saucepan over it, and a section of river, with cliffs on the far side is visible beyond. Other Titles - River Extended Title - From his "Sketchbook of copies from originals by James Coutts Crawford" [1860-1880], page [37 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Wash drawing, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-006-4

Description: A night scene showing two men seated in front of a camp fire, a temporary wooden shelter behind them Extended Title - From: Mantell, W B D. Scrapbook, p. 6 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1870 - 1871

By: Marcroft, J W, active 1870-1918; Wright, Keith A, active 1997

Reference: E-564

Description: Contains pencil sketches of Neils Flat [or Flax?] Mills (by A E B), Wakaperau Camp, Our camp at Hunts Bush May 1870 (by A E B), Mr Hunts residence May 1870 (by J W M), and untitled sketches of church buildings, sailboats, and European scenes of ponds, churchyards (by A I C?) and J W M. Wakaperau may be Whakapirau, or possibly Whakapara; both are farm localities in Northland. Newspaper cutting from "The Dominion" 21 March 1928, page 6, confirms that J W M, is likely to be J W Marcroft. The donor's letter at AT 10/14, gives additional biographical information about Marcroft. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - (on front cover): J.W.M. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Soft covered sketchbook, 190 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Keith A Wright of Brisbane, in 1997.

Date: 1886 - 1887

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbook. [February 1886 - January 1887]

Reference: E-034-4-014

Description: Two people sitting in front of a camp fire on the shores of Lake Manapouri. Their yacht, with sail furled, is at the water's edge. `Beauty Cone' can be seen in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 144 x 215 mm

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Turner, E J Dorothy, 1885-1958

Reference: A-104-023

Description: A tent and an adult and child building a campfire in the left foreground with tall trees to the right, the lake in the background Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 101 x 89 mm (platemark) on sheet 131 x 115 mm

Date: 1935 - 1959

By: Minhinnick, Gordon Edward George (Sir), 1902-1992; Wellington Savage Club Inc

Reference: A-321-010

Description: Shows a group of men friends cooking a chicken over a fire outside their snow-covered cottage in the mountains. One is operating a radio with headphones, another chases a pukeko, another talks to a stag, one is chased by a deer, whilst yet others climb the side of a mountain in the background. The radio operator says: (according to text stuck on beneath image): "Civilisation coming through at last! What message shall I give them?" The chicken-cooker replies: "Vote of thanks to the Matson Line for their excellent idea!" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph on sheet 235 x 290 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A97-074..

Date: 1890 - 1899

Reference: A-192-007

Description: A night scene at the foot of cliffs and a pool, with a camp fire in the left foreground by a makeshift tent Other Titles - Mangorewa River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 203 x 126 mm

Date: 1888

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-008

Description: Shows two tents pitched and a campfire with three figures near it, in the left foreground, in front of a lake enclosed by hills. In the right foreground are two tree ferns. The shallow gully in the foreground may be steaming. Identified from photolithograph of a Rex Nan Kivell original (see C-085-022 - with Maori family camping at a slightly different part of the lake). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 430 x 640 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-040-005

Description: A view of Lake Wakatipu on a calm day, with a snow-laden Mount Earnslaw rising in the distance, shrouded in some low cloud. In the foreground are three horesemen, their horses and a dog. One man sits astride his horse; the second sits on a rock beside his horse; and the third man bends to make a fire. The dog lies resting on its side. A tiny train of steam indicates a steam boat on the lake in the distance The Library also holds two copies of a colour photolithograph of the same scene, at C-117-019, from International Art Centre in 1982. Barraud also painted other scenes of both Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw, some held by the Library Deframed by the Library Other Titles - Making camp, Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / 1874 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour on paper, 600 x 935 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, provenance as follows: Private collection, Auckland; National Treasures art auction, International Art Centre, March 1993; Fine Paintings and Watercolours, International Art Centre, March 1988; Fine Art auction, International Art Centre, 1971

Date: 1882

Reference: C-068-002-1

Description: One of nine wood engravings showing William Spotswood Green's attempt to ascend Mount Cook. Green with Swiss mountaineers Kaufmann and Boss are shown seated on rocks, Green with his sketchbook. Their tent is in the centre of the view alongside a tarn, with a cauldron cooking over a fire to their right, mountains beyond them. Page from The Graphic London, 29th July 1882 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 151 mm on sheet 405 x 587 mm

Date: 1957

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP/1957/4289-F

Description: Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm

Date: 1904

From: [Metal filing cabinet containing postcards]

By: Littleburys (Firm); Levett, Olga Gorton, 1891-1970; New Zealand. Tourism Department

Reference: Eph-POSTCARDS-Tobin-01

Description: Card shows a photograph of travellers beside a campfire at Mokau Inlet. There is a whare on the left and a hut at the right. The card is addressed on the verso to Miss Olga Levett of Bulls, Rangitikei. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, on postcard 87 x 139 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mrs Helen Tobin in 1997.

Date: 1864 - 1866

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

Reference: E-501-f-002

Description: Shows two men in the centre foreground, one sitting against a fallen tree trunk, one crouched with hand to face. Behind them, at right a man raises an axe to cut a tree trunk, a fuel-gatherer carries a bundle of greenery and wood, and a man accompanies two pack-donkeys at left. Two men attend to a cooking-fire. In the background is a row of tents, shacks, a washing-line and a general store. In the right distance, masts of two sailing ships are visible in the port. Date assigned with reference to dated picture of Hokitika Beach by same artist. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 240 mm. (rectangular with rounded corners).

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-010

Description: Shows a night-time camping scene, lit by a campfire, with members of the six-strong camping party (a woman and five men) seated around the campfire, some of them in the entrance to a tent at the left. The tent uses a flowering cabbage tree as a ridge-pole. The scene may show John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley (and possibly their son Arthur), as well as Charles Torlesse, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Hunter Brown and Mr Boys. In a letter to her mother, starting 13 December, Charlotte Godley describes being led on a camping trip with Weld, including camping at the edge of Rangiora Bush on 6 December 1950. She writes of their camp being 'just on the edge of thick, almost impenetrable wood, with very fine trees; and our little tent with a fire at the door, quite shaded over by the tall waving toi-toi grass, and the large one for the gentlemen a little beyond, with such a magnificent fire ... Mr Weld ... went and got me a bouquet ... it was the flower of the cabbage tree ... ' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand (Christchurch, 1951), p 145. Other Titles - Rangiora, North Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1900

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929

Reference: G-550

Description: Shows two groups of Maori whare on a river in the foreground; the two groups are linked by a low wooden bridge. A waka is drawn up on the bank in the foreground and several figures stand in front of the huts. Beside the central group of two whare there is a drying pole on which a row of fish or game are hung. The figures beside the whare at far right are tending a campfire. The clearing is surrounded by native bush and there is a cabbage tree and flax at the far right. In the centre distance is Mount Taranaki dominating the scene. May show Rehu village, inland from Patea Inscriptions: Mount verso - top left - [Title, late twentieth-early 21st century, on paper stapled to frame] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 440 x 645 mm (sight)

Date: 1860

Reference: A-423-014

Description: Shows two tents in the left foreground on a high point of land, with a campfire between them; they are overlooking another headland also with a campfire, and bay area. In the right middle distance is an island or headland, and on the horizon are two other land masses. The soldiers near the tents appear to wear blue military jackets and red hats. There is a British flag and red ensign flying on flying on two flagpoles in the left foreground. Location may not be New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 136 x 195 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: B-155-010

Description: Shows two bearded surveyors attempting to boil a billy over an open camp fire, in bleak wet weather, on a treeless plateau with mountains in the background. One man, smoking a pipe, is dressed in a torn jacket, and attempts to warm his hands over the fire. His companion, at the left, tries to shelter the fire from the wind with his hat. At the far left, a miserable dog stands in front of the opening of a tent. The smoke blows from the fire in a direction opposite to what one would expect judging by the slant of the rain. Abbot was part of a surveying party contracted in 1847, with Sydney M Scraggs, northwards along the Taieri plain and further north. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 349 mm

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 1831 - 1937 - 1939

By: Downes, Thomas William, 1868-1938; Bathgate, Charles McLelland, 1893-1970

Reference: A-076-023

Description: Shows Powers lying in boat in right foreground, while some of a group of six natives ties one of his three companions to a pole. One threatens towards the tied man with a mere. There is a campfire and a kete lies on the ground. Features Andrew Powers, one of the first white men to see Lake Taupo. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 209 x 308 mm.