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Date: 1863

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-038

Description: Pohutukawa flowering in the foreground of a view probably taken from the garden of Judge William Martin, Judges Bay. The view takes in North Head and Rangitoto Island in the background. Purchased with A-161-032/041. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 272 mm

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Artist unknown :Sir William Martin's, Taurarua [1880s?] [And - Mount Egmont from New Plymouth with a settler's homestead, fences and cleared land. 1880s?]

Reference: A-090-020-1

Description: View from below a substantial house with several wings, single-storied, through an established garden. Other Titles - Judges Bay, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in (possibly) the artist's hand with "Taurarua [Auckland]" added in another hand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper glued to tan sketchbook page 128 x 194 mm on sheet 192 x 273 mm

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-006

Description: Half-length frontal portrait of a girl or woman in a hat and cloak and the face of another, with a leg and shoe; also part of Sir William Martin's house in Judges Bay with detail of bay windows. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1885

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925

Reference: A-176-012

Description: Shows Swainson's home at Judge's Bay, now the site of the Parnell Rose Gardens, with a view out to the Harbour, with North Head and Rangitoto. A willow tree and a Norfolk pine are distinguishable amongst the plants on the right. Inscriptions: On separate label: View of Auckland Head and residence of the late Hon. W. Swainson first Attorney-General of New Zealand by Miss Isa Outhwaite of Auckland, artist, 1885. Taurarua.; Verso - Taurarua. With I. O's love Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 153 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-045

Description: Looking up a hillside from below, towards a fenced hillside and a house, possibly Judges Bay, and Sir William Martin's house, Auckland Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-b

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-a

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1884

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton, 1864-1953 :[Sketchbooks] 1883-1899, 1904-1943.

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-300-q-1-031

Description: A scene at Judge's Bay, Auckland showing a house and a church. `Kilbryde' on hill to right was John Logan Campbell's house, completed 1881 (was demolished after World War I). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 152 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-044

Description: Shows Sir William Martin's home at Judge's Bay (Taurarua, seen from below) In the foreground is the roof of another building, possible a thatched raupo roof, and possibly the hospital at Judge's Bay. Other Titles - [Country house. Former title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on page, 126 x 173 mm.

Date: ca 1860s

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Rocke, James Harwood, active 1864-1870

Reference: PA1-o-346

Description: Chiefly photographs of Ireland and New Zealand (particularly Auckland). Appears to have been compiled by an Irish officer with the Imperial forces during the 1860s. Among the New Zealand views are photographs taken by John Kinder and Lieutenant-Colonel J H Rocke, 18th Royal Irish Regiment Photographs of people are not identified in the album, but have been identified by comparison with other photographs, and include Judge William Martin and his wife, and Governor Gore Browne and his family. Photographs by J H Rocke are apparently those of countryside around Auckland Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cloth bound album; 24.0 x 19.5 cm

Date: 1851 - 1859

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :[Sketchbook]

Reference: E-346-1-007

Description: Looking up from Taurarua (Judges Bay) towards the home of Judge William Martin, flanked by trees. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 129 x 178 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

Reference: A-457-008-3

Description: Shows a view of St Stephen's Chapel, Parnell, from Judges Bay. Below and to the right of the chapel is Sir William Martin's residence; behind it is probably Attorney-General Swainson's house. Other houses and smaller buildings can be seen towards the water's edge Judges Bay was named for Martin and Swainson, who both resided there On the verso is a pencil drawing of a house with two small outbuildings, unidentified; it is possibly by a different artist Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - St Stephen's Parnell 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 160 x 305 mm

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000147-G

Description: View of Campbell's Point looking across Judges Bay. The Auckland wharves can be seen in the distance, and boats moored in the vicinity of Mecahnics Bay. The home of Sir John Logan Campbell, `Kilbryde', (a large Italianate style two-storied house with a tower) is situated on the Point overlooking Judges Bay. This house was demolished in 1924. Photograph taken by William Price ca 1910. Other images of Sir John Logan Campbell's house can be located under the e print heading 11. Auckland. Parnell. Houses. Campbell. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Campbell's Pt. Parnell. Auckland. No 3086. William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-073

Description: John Johnson's drawing of the house and garden of William Swainson, Attorney-General in Auckland, with Judge's Bay to the right. Flax in flower near the fence in the foreground can be seen, and small shrubs, and a path winding up through lawn from the waterfront Associated with the view on p. 51 of the album, where the Biblical quote is begun 'and the wilderness shall become the fruitful field' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and grey wash, 199 x 278 mm

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006

Description: Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1844 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809-1877 :[Panorama of St John's college, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G A Selwyn in Nov. 1844. Drawn by Mrs Abraham, wife of the bishop, and lithographed by Miss Cotton. Auckland ; St John's College? 1862?]

Reference: A-220-008-a-1

Description: Sections one and two of an eight-part panorama. Judges Bay on the left and Rangitoto on the right in the background. In the foreground, a cluster of buildings with the largest identified as the Bishop's residence, a two-storied stone building. The building on the right containing the Maori adult school, weaving room and surgery is also two-storied and is half-timbered in mock Tudor style. Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 170 x 493 mm on sheet 210 x 1973 mm

Date: 1860

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913

Reference: A-183-007

Description: Shows Parnell and St Paul's in the background and St. Stephen's Chapel in Judge's Bay in the middle distance. The view is looking west along the Auckland waterfront Compare Hoyte's 'Official Bay' (Ref. no. A-183-002) for a closer view of the area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink & wash 127 x 210 mm

Date: 18 Nov 1844

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-209

Description: Sketch by William Bambridge, made as he and his family were moving into their new house, having moved down from the Waimate Mission Station. The sketch is on p 209 of the diary and is described in the adjacent text, including the fact that the house was pre-fabricated in England and shipped to Auckland. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 55 x 133 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm

Date: 18-20 Nov 1844

From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries

Reference: MS-0130-210

Description: Diary entries and watercolour sketch by William Bambridge of Auckland as seen from the edge of his verandah. Further sketches of kettle and saucepans for boiling tea; domestic articles for breakfast and sketch of interior. Quantity: 2 pages. Physical Description: Ink with watercolour sketch

Date: 1860

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Bent, Thomas, 1833?-1887; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-035

Description: A view from the water, Judges Bay, Auckland, looking past a schooner and up the cliffs at the water's edge to the church (St Stephen's Chapel), the house of Judge William Martin and other houses. Fort Britomart is on the cliff-top to the right Identity of the artist with initials T. B. shown to be Thomas Bent from comparison with an identical view in a private collection and with the Pacific watercolours held by the Library. A fellow-officer of Gold's, in whose sketchbook this drawing was adhered. The two men fought together in Taranaki. There is a pencil drawing on the verso that may be the work of Gold or of Bent. It shows a train crossing a railway bridge by a bay ringed with hills, with churches and houses sketched in on the left. It is not an identifiable New Zealand scene. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. B. Nov 28 1860 [in brushpoint]; Recto - bottom right - Taurarua. Judges Bay. Auckland [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 251 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)