Places

Date: 1881

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Aitken, Robert Walter, 1828-1910

Reference: C-003-007

Description: Shows a view looking down from a rocky outcrop (partially seen in the extreme left foreground), on to the field of a farm with horses, cattle, a farmhouse, outbuildings, and at far right a haystack. A row of trees runs along one of the boundaries of the property, parallel to the river in the background. On the far side of the river are limestone cliffs and hills. The locality is more commonly known as Clifden, and Cyclopedia of New Zealand, volume 4, Otago and Southland, decribes it as having been a large sheep station. Other Titles - Clifden Notes on backing board recto: Painting of Clifdene Station on the Waiau River, Southland. Formerly owned by R W Aitken. Painted by a French artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 394 x 620 mm. Provenance: "This work originally belonged to a descendant of the Aitken family who owned Clifdene when Aubrey painted this work" (Auction catalogue, International Art Centre, 16 September 2008) Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-004

Description: Shows dog(?) and cattle in river at right, high rolling country with flax and cabbage trees, and the mountains near the Rakaia Gorge in the distance. Hurt farmed near the Selwyn River from about 1861. He was listed in the Rakaia electorate for 1872-73. Other Titles - Rakaia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 139 x 214 mm.

Date: 1881

By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935; Green, George Herbert (Dr), 1916-2001

Reference: A-250-004

Description: Shows cattle on a coastal farm near where the Tararua was wrecked. There are sand dunes between the paddocks and the seashore. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - in pencil: Breakers at Waipapa & slope. Land on slope pale. Tussock hill above dark. Breakers over left hummock Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 190 x 305 mm

Date: ca 1890s

Reference: 1/2-004675-G

Description: Unidentified men and women watch a team of bullocks resting outside the Hermitage, Mount Cook. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - "The Hermitage" 2500 feet. Mode of conveying stores - team of 12 bullocks Note on back of file print reads: Team of bullocks which were used for bringing stores, in front of hermitage, ca 1890s Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: [ca 1890s]

From: Guest, Ernest Matthias Capewell, 1873?-1957: Photographs of the Chatham Islands

Reference: 1/1-013306-G

Description: The Dix family, with cattle and horses, outside a dwelling in Torotoro, Chatham Islands, circa 1890s. Photograph taken by Ernest Matthias Guest. Guest Collection Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: [188-?]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/2-096282-G

Description: Jersey cattle and shed at James Booth's property, Gisborne. Photograph taken circa 1880s by Daniel Manders Beere. Cataloguer has linked the name 'Booth, James, 1830-1900' to this record. This may, or may not, be the James Booth who owned the property photographed. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Identification by Library client. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1873 - 1877

By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900

Reference: B-079-030

Description: Looking towards the Taita Gorge, with a road and houses in garden settings to the right, a stream in the foreground, cattle grazing, two dead trees and further houses in the centre, and hills behind Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 281 x 495 mm

Date: 1861 - 1871

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

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-026

Description: Shows two huts beside road on which a bullock team is being driven. Mount Egmont, free of snow, in the distance Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 157 x 235 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-014

Description: Shows 2 men on left, boiling a billy over a fire, with sheep and dogs, Bridle Path in centre with three men, a horse, sheep and cattle, the Heathcote River and part of the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Pegasus Bay, and smoke and trees at the site of the future Christchurch. Original sketch for etching by T.Allom published in "Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" (London, 1851. Art f919.31 / FOU). On verso: "Alphabetical list of the first purchasers of land at the Canterbury settlement" and references to correspondence between Governor Grey and Earl Grey. Other Titles - Lyttelton = Christchurch; River Avon or Shakespeare = Heathcote River; Forty Miles Beach = Pegasus Bay Cf similar watercolour in the Hocken Library: Part of the Great Plain Canterbury, N.Z. 1851 (neg.1/2-105095-F) taken from the same spot by the same artist but with no staffage. This ink drawing may be a copy by H. J. Cridland of Fox's original, or of one of the prints of the same scene published in August 1851. Compare the style of A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective, and the style of rendering figures. The artist was present to welcome the first settlers in Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 he was back in England for some time before returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 206 x 321 mm (wedge cut from upper left corner) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London? Processing information: Originally tipped in to Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136]. Removed 1987 or 1988.

Date: [188-?]

From: Vance, William, 1899-1981 :Photographs

Reference: 1/2-002088-F

Description: Cattle being yarded at Martins Bay. Photographer unidentified Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Perston, John Roberton, 1893-1962

Reference: A-034-034

Description: Shows cows grazing, pasture, bush and distant hills Locality identified by A G Bagnall. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 340 mm Transfers: Removed from Smith's European sketchbook, E-011-f, page 22..

Date: 2002-2006

From: Farrell, Damer, 1943-: Photographs of the West Coast

Reference: PADL-000487

Description: Photographs of Buller, West Coast. Includes photographs of the Buller Gorge road, Buller towns and shops, Denniston, views of rivers and coastlines around the Buller district. Arrangement: These files were originally delivered to the library within a folder called "Views-Places (Buller)" Quantity: 143 digital photograph(s).

Date: 1997 - 1998

By: Henshaw, David, 1939-2014

Reference: J-046-004

Description: Cartoon of rural life. A scene at the Kimbolton Saleyards where cattle are being auctioned. Two stock agents stand on top of the fences while a few farmers are gathered below looking at the stock. One stock agent tells the other just how tough this season is for farmers. Exhibited in 'The Famouse Five: Manawatu's Cartoonists on Show', Exhibition curated by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive and exhibited at Te Manawa Art (Manawatu Art Gallery), Palmerston North, from 13 May to 23 June 2002, in association with Massey University and the Palmerston North City Council. Quantity: 1 colour page from calendar. Physical Description: Reproduction of watercolour and pen. Image size 280 x 390 mm.

Date: 1934

From: Cook, Hinehauone Coralie, 1904-1993 :[Loose prints, drawings and paintings; and two albums of prints and drawings. 1924-1991]

Reference: E-915-q-008

Description: Shows a herd of cows in front of a farm shed. At top left, a man is throwing water from a bucket. Photographed in E-918-q, 136/140a, with similar images at 76/140c and 215/140d. Details supplied in Rod Cook's notebook at E-918-q Extended Title - From her '[Album of prints, 1930-1937; 1978-1980 ...]', page [8 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 175 x 254 mm, on sheet 204 x 275 mm.

Date: 1918

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1753-1/2-G

Description: View of farmers at the opening of the new saleyards at Rangiahua. Many of the men are standing on the rails of the cattle pens. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber in 1918. Information from Godber's index held in Photographic Archives (under Box 58. Saleyards. Rangiahua. 1918) An original print of this image is in Godber Album (Vol 109, p 89), Pa1-q-102. Inscriptions: Album page - Opening the new saleyards at Rangiahua. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-032

Description: In the foreground a man on horseback is herding cattle. Beyond him is a valley with farmland and Mount Victoria in the middle distance, Wellington Harbour just visible beyond that Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 216 x 366 mm

Date: 1863 - 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Dorset, William, 1802-1877; Dorset, John, 1807-1856

Reference: C-007-016

Description: Shows a group of cattle standing at the edge of the river in the left foreground. There are other cattle and scattered farm buildings with smoking chimneys, and a range of hills in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / N.Z. 1863 [or 1865]; Backing board recto - centre - (Label): C D Baraud / Cattle by the Rumahanga River, Waiarapa, 1863. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 325 x 465 mm. Provenance: According to a label on the backing board, the work was "commissioned by Dr William Dorset, Surgeon to the New Zealand Company, and friend of Colonel William Wakefield. [The work then] passed by direct descent in the family of Dr Dorset", until it was sold in 1979. In fact the surgeon was Dr John Dorset, brother of Mr William Dorset.

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-159-021

Description: Shows Wellington city and harbour viewed from the area near the top of Vivian Street. A figure in horseback rides along a track curving around the hill slope at the left, and four head of cattle stand on a path amongst willows and other trees at the right. Further away is a road, possibly Abel Smith Street, with buildings including a house with a square turret. A church at left centre near the waterfront appears to be of Gothic design. There are several sail and steam ships in the harbour near Queens Wharf. The Hutt Valley and the snow-capped Tararuas can be seen in the distance. The original watercolour for a chromolithograph published in Barraud's "New Zealand graphic and descriptive" (London, 1879). Accompanied by backing board with name of Mrs Pownall, previous owner. Other Titles - New Zealand Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - [Title]; Backing board recto - centre - Eigendom van Mevrouw Pownall [Property of Mrs Pownall] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on sheet 250 x 355 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mrs Pownall.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings