Places

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: 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: 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: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 mm.

Date: 1890

By: Farr, Samuel Charles, 1827-1918

Reference: G-408

Description: Shows three men around a tent pitched on the top of grassy hills near a rocky outcrop. Their tent is pitched at the left, and at the centre, smoke rises from their campfire. The tent appears to have a brand name sign on the side. One of the man is reading a book. At the extreme right and left are what may be handbuilt piles of stones, possibly from a stone quarry. Small pink flowering bushes are in the foreground, above a clay bank. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board, 245 x 350 mm. Provenance: The vendor bought the painting from descendants of the artist; they confirmed the location of the scene.