Places

Date: [Between 1910s and 1930s]

From: Pascoe, John Dobree, 1908-1972 :Photographic albums, prints and negatives

By: Adamson, Jack, 1866-1951; Beken, Charles Albert, 1859-1944; Cain, Conrad, active 1910s; Kent, T R, active 1930s; Lysons, Markham Carthew, 1907-1944; Mitchell, John Wesley, 1884-1954; Nanson, Gerald Leighton, 1907?-; Odell, Robert Sidney, 1908-1992; Pascoe, Arnold Paul, 1908-1976; Porter, Harold Edward Lionel, 1886-1973; Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Snowden, Andrew Craig, 1897-1981; Syme, Roderick, 1900-1994; Teichelmann, Ebenezer (Dr), 1859-1938; Thompson, A F, active 1939

Reference: PA1-o-410

Description: Photographs taken by John Dobree Pascoe and others, in the Southern Alps, particularly Canterbury region. They include groups of mountaineers; routes traversing difficult slopes; views of mountains, mountain ranges and glaciers; mountain huts and life enjoyed by mountaineers. A number of images in this album have no captions, but some have been identified as having been taken by, or of, Jack Adamson in the late 1890s and possibly up to the early 1910s. A number of postcard images by F G Radcliffe are included. Other photographers and subjects include early mountaineers Kate Gardiner, Mrs Thompson, and there is one image of mountain guide Darby Thomson (who died in an avalanche on the Linda Glacier in 1914). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; "J.D. Pascoe" lettered in gold in lower right-hand corner; [197 p.]; 26.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :[The ship "Wild Duck", Wellington; and South Island scene] [1864?].

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-009-1

Description: Shows high-country lake with trees in foreground, and a group of cattle (about 7 animals) venturing into the water's edge in right foreground. Rugged peaks in the background. On verso of: The ship "Wild Duck, Wellington". Dated similarly because of this. Inscriptions: Unsigned, undated, untitled. Physical Description: Pencil drawing 381 x 524 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1895

By: Good, Thomas, 1823-1907

Reference: A-329-003

Description: Shows Mount Ruapehu in the left distance. Two horses graze in the right foreground, near a cabbage tree, and two figures stand together a little further off, towards a homestead and outbuildings in the middle distance. There is a group of cattle in the left middle distance. The other works in the group include one dated 1892 and one dated 1893, and it is assumed that all date from the late 1880s and early 1890s. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T.G. [and title]; Verso - centre - Ruapehu / about 50 miles from Oeo Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet 137 x 224 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's South Kensington, 25 May 1989, lot no. 176. Backing (now discarded) indicates that the work was previously framed at some time by Gowrie Galleries, 316 Oxford Street, Woollahra 2025, NSW.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: C-007-005

Description: Shows a view looking southwest over Lake Taupo, with Ruapehu shown to the left of Ngauruhoe which has a plume of smoke coming from it. The right foreground shows bush and a small plateau on which cattle are grazing. There are cliffs on the lakeside in the left distance. Shows Motutaiko Island in the central distance. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 330 x 520 mm

Date: 1950

By: King, Marcus, 1891-1983

Reference: Eph-E-TOURISM-1950-01

Description: Shows drover on horseback at right foreground, with sheepdog on riverbank behind him. He follows a herd of Hereford cattle across a river, with bush, hills and snowcapped peaks behind. Previously thought to be dated in the 1930s; revised owing to information in "Selling the dream; the art of early New Zealand tourism" eds Peter Alsop, Gary Stewart, Dave Bamford (2012), where it is shown on page 370-371, with date given on page 402. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - MARCUS KING Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 632 x 1012 mm.

Date: 1893

By: Good, Thomas, 1823-1907

Reference: A-329-005

Description: Shows a cleared area in a hollow, with a large fallen tree trunk in the left foreground. A man is seated in the centre foreground on a smaller trunk, near his saddled horse. A fence stretches across the foreground, and beyound the white wooden gate, a man drives two cows away through the cleared area, beyond which there is bush-covered rolling plain leading to Mt Taranaki in the distance. On the left two small huts stand among bare trees. There is a tree fern near the huts. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - (On the slope of a small mound): T.G. / 1893 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet 136 x 224 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's South Kensington, 25 May 1989, lot no. 176. Backing (now discarded) indicates that the work was previously framed at some time by Gowrie Galleries, 316 Oxford Street, Woollahra 2025, NSW.

Date: 1885 - 1895

By: Good, Thomas, 1823-1907

Reference: A-329-002

Description: Shows Mount Taranaki in the central distance, beyond a bush-covered plain. In the left foreground a man and woman ride horses, and there are some cows grazing in the field a little off to the right. There is a cabbage tree and bracken in the right foreground. The other works in the group include one dated 1892 and one dated 1893, and it is assumed that all date from the late 1880s and early 1890s, despite the half-cropped date on this work appearing to begin with 6 (i.e. indicating 1860s date). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T.G. [and title]; Verso - centre - Mount Egmont or Taranaki / 8,500 feet high - 15 miles from coastline Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, on sheet 136 x 225 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Christie's South Kensington, 25 May 1989, lot no. 176. Backing (now discarded) indicates that the work was previously framed at some time by Gowrie Galleries, 316 Oxford Street, Woollahra 2025, NSW.