Places

Date: 1870

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-020

Description: View across the Waihopai Valley with the river and hills in the background. In the foreground, a fenced group of single-storey buildings, with tall trees nearby, a garden within the fenced area. Note on back of sketch: Front of building made of mud; newer part at back of wood A further watercolour by Bothamley of the the same building from a different angle is held at B-032-038 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 292 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1863 - 1867

By: Handcock, William, active 1860s-1870s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-109-012

Description: Birds-eye view looking down onto the city and harbour, showing houses, businesses, wharves, shipping, gardens, etc Wood engraving done on seven blocks. The gaps between the blocks disfigure the image Inscriptions: "T M Hocken" signed at bottom Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 218 x 370 mm Provenance: Possibly a gift from Dr Hocken to Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-001

Description: View across the water towards the jetty and home of Sir George Grey. Hills to the left Copied from a wood engraving in the Illustrated London news. v. 27 no 771 p. 620 1855 Inscriptions: Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 355 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull, from English dealer Albert Berthel, Richmond, 1914

Date: 1860

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-005

Description: View looking across the waterfront and Commercial Bay with two long breakwaters or wharves protecting the bay Likely to have been copied from a published source. Most of Hatton's work is copied from the Illustrated London news, but a source for this image has not been found. Hatton's dating is unreliable and may indicate an earlier or later date of publication An almost identical watercolour, also signed by W S Hatton, is in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. It is dated 1859 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 127 x 355 mm Provenance: Purchase: A H Turnbull, from English dealer, Albert Berthel, of Richmond, 1914

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-002

Description: View looking down into Commercial Bay, with Shortland Street leading up the hill to St Paul's on the skyline (along the ridge now featuring Albert Park and the University). The Britomart Barracks is on the headland left of centre and Wood's Hotel is to the right along the skyline from St Paul's. Outlines of houses and commercial buildings shown clearly. 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. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title , date, signature; Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 25 1850. No. 343 inscribed to right of stamp. Ink identification of features along the top = left to right: the old barracks, ... Church of England, Shortland Street, Woods New Hotel, There is a related watercolour in the Hocken Library 'Auckland, 1849' (acc 12,881) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touch of wash 181 x 535 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards & Co, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection, London, 1915.

Date: 1871

By: Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-032-019

Description: View from the lower slopes of the Western Hutt hills, looking along a road across part of Lower Hutt and Petone towards Wellington Harbour, with Somes Island and Wellington Heads visible. several houses and gardens on the flat land at the bottom of the hill and a small stream runs away to the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil; Signature and date in ink, lower right. Pencilled title on reverse has been crossed out. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 317 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1860

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-008

Description: View from near the shore, across the town towards Marsland Stockade Copied from a wood engraving entitled Taranaki (New Plymouth), the village capital of the Province of New Plymouth... published in Illustrated London News, 27 Oct. 1860 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 266 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from English dealer Albert Berthel, Richmond, Surrey, 1914

Date: 1852 - 1854

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-009-008

Description: Shows church which was blown down in 1854. Signed. Compare B-009-009. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 230 x 370 mm Provenance: Probably one of the two sketches by Norman purchased by Alexander Turnbull for £25 from James Tyrell, September 1972 (with B-009-007). Source of information: MS 57/112 1912 [d]

Date: 1860

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-010

Description: View from a high standpoint across gardens, houses, other buildings. A two-storied house with a fenced side garden is prominent on the left. A tower or steeple is on the skyline to the right The source for this view is not known. It may not show Auckland. Most of W S Hatton's watercolours are copies from engravings in the Illustrated London news and this view is not recognisable as a view of Auckland from that source Title from pencil inscription on verso Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 279 mm Provenance: Purchase: A H Turnbull from English dealer Albert Berthel, Richmond, 1914

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-004

Description: Identifies "Royal Hotel, Church, Mr Valpy's residence, Rest. [i. e. Resident New Zealand Company] Agent's Office, Store, Mr Brown's House, The Manse, Mr Chapman's house, Captn Cargill's house" Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp date "June 26 '49"; Verso - In pencil: "299" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white 239 x 450 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1859

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Barker, Alfred Charles (Dr), 1819-1873; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-078-009

Description: The first buildings around the Avon River, in what was to become central Christchurch. Flax growing in the foreground and a bridge over the river. The Port Hills are in the distance. The area shown is Oxford Terrace, with the Worcester Street bridge on the right in the middle distance. The dark two-storied house left of centre is the house of Dr A C Barker. The central two-storied house is that of William Guise Brittan. The Lands Office is left of the bridge Copied from an engraving in "Illustrated London News" April 9,1853 p. 268 which was after a sketch by Dr A C Barker Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: W.S.H. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 387 x 228 mm Provenance: Purchase: A H Turnbull from English dealer Albert Berthel, of Richmond, 1914.

Date: 1840

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

Reference: A-146-001

Description: A hill with fern and low scrub in the foreground, with a view across the bush-covered Hutt Valley and Petone to the Wainuiomata Hills, with the Harbour, Somes Island and four immigrant ships, the harbour entrance and Miramar Peninsula. There are houses built by the first European settlers on the beach, possibly along with the buildings of Petone Pa, although the latter are indistinguishable from the settlers' houses. The Pa may be hidden from sight by a low rise to the right. Original drawing for a lithograph in E. J . Wakefield's "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand" (London, 1845) Plate 3, with title "Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840". The lithograph includes in its foreground a Maori woman gathering crops or food and three pigs. The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature, and "Portfolio D" [the latter inscribed by staff of the New Zealand Company in London.; Recto - top centre - No. 55. New Zealand Company Mar 23 1842 [the latter a stamp indicating the date the drawing was received by the New Zealand Company in London]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 233 x 369 mm Provenance: Drawn for the New Zealand Company and sent to London. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other New Zealand Company material in 1915.

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-113-005

Description: View looking across the waterfront past a road skirting a cliff towards part of the harbour, with from left, inscribed along the top, the Manse and Captain Cargill's house, the Resident Agent's Office (of the New Zealand Company), Mr C. H. Kettle's house, Mr Valpy's house, the Survey Office, and on far right the school and church. 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. Inscriptions: Recto - features identified in ink along the top of the view. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Stamped with the New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 7 1850 and inscribed by the New Zealand Company No. 338. A watercolour in the Hocken Collections is very similar to this view. It is titled Dunedin, Otago, January 1849. It has been annotated by T. M. Hocken as showing the 'Emigrants barracks built of manuka ... site of back of Customhouse in Bond St' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash drawing 230 x 463 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards & Co, with other New Zealand Company material, London, 1915 Processing information: Formerly located at C-013-005

Date: 1850

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-016

Description: View from Governor's Bay looking back towards Lyttelton, with various features marked, including Mount Pleasant, H. M. S. Fly in the harbour, the Custom house, Major Hornby's Hotel [Major Hornbrook's hotel, the Mitre Inn] , the Emigration Barracks, a public cook house, the store and the temporary office of the Union Bank, John Robert Godley's house and garden, the Land Office, the Police Office and the Town Hall, Market Place, Jail and Hospital, the [Canterbury] Association Store House, the Esplanade, settlers' huts, the church, parsonage and school house. Several people including an artist are seated on rocks to the left, by an arched rock. The others are a woman with a baby and another woman with two small children. The reversing of the artist's initials and the naivety of the drawing may indicate that this is a contemporary copy by another hand of the original Cridland sketch located at C-014-002-1. It does, however, have more features indicated in writing than the C-014-002-1 version. Other Titles - Lyttelton. The boat labelled 'FLY' is not an accurate depiction of the HMS Fly. See A-292-070 or C-033-003 for more accurate depictions. September 2022 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature [with initials reversed], date; Recto - top centre - [text describing the scene and its details]; Verso - [map of Christchurch] Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 196 x 324 mm (irregularly cut) Provenance: Previously tipped into a volume of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's copy of The New Zealand Journal housed on the open shelves in the Reference Collection at q328.42 until 1989. The volume had earlier belonged to W H Burnand. Transfers: Compare a very similar view with the same provenance located at C-014-002-1.

Date: 1875 - 1885

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-051-016

Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1848

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-001

Description: Shows two figures on the near ridge, looking down over the inlet of Picton Harbour at left. To the right are hills, and in the distance can be seen islands and hills in the Marlborough Sounds. There is a small area of cleared land with a Maori kainga or pa (Waitohi Pa?) in the port area to the left, and slightly to the right, a building that appears to be a European church. The New Zealand Company stamp, dated 1848, appears in the sky area along with the number 268. Painted for the New Zealand Company during Fox's travels around the northern South Island in 1848. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983. 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. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Waitohi, Picton Inscriptions: Recto - above image - No. 268 [with NZ Company stamp dated "14 July 1848"] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 557 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1840

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-011-005

Description: View from inside Pipitea Pa, looking north up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Ranges. In the left foreground, two people sit, wrapped in blankets on bare ground. The edges of the site are defined with palisades of varying heights. On lower ground to the right are a wharenui, a long low building with a single door in the side, and two whata or food storage buildings on poles. Note on verso: Selected to be exhibited in the Academy Gallery for the Chamber of Commerce centennial June 1956, but not shown because of lack of space. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour, December Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 205 x 284 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection.

Date: 1862

By: Stack, Frederick Rice, -1873; Day & Son (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-060-014

Description: View from the North Shore, looking back towards Auckland city, with four Maori canoes racing (one with a sail), several yachts and sailing ships H. M. S. Miranda and H. M. S. Fawn. The houses of Parnell and other parts of Auckland, and the spire of St Paul's can be seen in the background Extended Title - Plate from: Stack, F R. Views in the province of Auckland (London, 1862). Plate 1. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-col., image, 203 x 405 mm on sheet 358 x 564 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered from F. Edwards, London, 11 November 1892 for 20/- for the set of six. (See A H Turnbull's letters)

Date: 1839

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

Reference: C-025-014

Description: In the foreground are five men moving a log with ropes. Beyond them is a saw-pit with prepared timber and there is further timber cut into planks in the right foreground, with two axes and a jacket. There are two millers' huts, many trunks and tree-stumps and large stands of kauri trees. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. The artist is likely to visited this timber camp between 26 and 29 December 1839 and the camp's location should be somewhere between Te Kopuru (south of Dargaville) and the confluence of the Mangakahia and Wairua Rivers, probably in the upper Wairoa, not far from Tangiteroria. It appears likely to have been a timber camp established by ex-Wesleyan Mission Society missionary William White, with a gang of Sydney sawyers, at a site known as Mangarata. See 'The unknown Kaipara' by Brian Byrne, p. 165-168 for further information. Inscriptions: Recto - Chas Heaphy. No.8 [New Zealand Company numbering at top] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 470 x 375 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-006

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down over Thorndon, showing the Immigration Barracks, the first St Paul's Church and a single house on the shore at Oriental Bay. The view looks across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Evans Bay. There are several dead trees on Thorndon Flat. Point Jerningham is on the left across the water, and there are six ships and several smaller vessels in the harbour. Two flags are flying close to the shore The Hocken Library holds a lithograph (possibly a unique surviving copy) of this view, published by Jones & Bluett, Wellington, 1841. The view is taken at much the same time as Heaphy's 'Thorndon Flat, April 1841' (C-025-010) Features marked along the top, but trimmed, so that they are all incomplete: 'n Houses' is probably Immigration Houses'; 'a Esq.r' is probably Duppa Esquire [house in Oriental Bay]; 'Church' is probably St Paul's Church; 'ia' is the end of Mt Victoria; 'Bay' on the left, is Evans Bay. Dating: the associated lithograph was published in 1843. St Paul's Church, Museum Street, was consecrated in 1844, but possibly completed some time before 1844. Other Titles - Tinakori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 206 x 307 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased 1915, from Francis Edwards. Formerly New Zealand Company collection