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Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-029

Description: Shows a view of the city and harbour of Auckland from Mt Eden, with Josiah Clifton Firth's house in the lower left, and Mt Eden Prison in the middle distance. North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance. The top of the Coromandel Peninsula can be seen in the right distance. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 228 x 354 mm.

Date: 1843

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-016/017

Description: An extensive view from a high point over fenced and partially cleared land, with a house and shed, and a stream to the right, the Waitemata Harbour in the background. Possibly the Tamaki area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 137 x 310 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

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: 1987 - 1895 - 1905

From: [Pioneer shelter series] [picture] - Christchurch, N Z, Gateway Pictures, [1987?]

By: Gateway Pictures

Reference: B-123-032

Description: Shows a group of six children outside a wooden hut with wooden roof and chimney. There are two pigs in the foreground, and a cat at the far left. Pukapuka is in the Rodney District in the Auckland Region. Accompanied by an explanatory sheet. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, 310 x 450 mm

Date: 1865-1911

By: Northwood Brothers (Firm); Tyree Brothers (Firm)

Reference: PAColl-6996

Description: A printed christmas message from the headmaster, Frederick Knapp, to the pupils of Central Girls' College, Nelson 1907; carts on Commerce Street, Kaitaia, one passing the Kaitaia Hotel ca 1890s; newspaper photograph of early Nelson settlers W H Cole and M P Hargreaves in 1924 taken by Tyree; two of bullock teams in Kaitaia; Devonport and Northcote ferry terminal in Auckland ca 1911; girls of Nelson College for Girls with L Sheat on the left of the second row with Muriel Bell next to her in 1914; Awanui looking towards the wharf ca 1914 by Northwood Bros; Marsland Hill Memorial to the men who died in the New Zealand Wars in New Plymouth designed and erected by W Parkinson & Co, Auckland; seated portrait of Thomas Thompson 1865; a group of gum diggers outside Tynan's gum store in Waihopo ca 1890s; a group of Maori adults and children on an outing by bullock team, one man holding a concertina ca 1890s; a group of twelve Austrian gum diggers some with shovels and one holding a cat ca 1890s; Elizabeth Levestam and her four sons ca 1900; three of the camp site set up by a surveying party in the Victoria Valley ca 1890; the school at Richmond with the children lined up in the yard ca 1900s; the Anglican church at Richmond 1910; Headingly, the home of Thomas Thompson with Mrs Thompson and her eldest son in front of it 1911; a carriage outside a house holding about 12 people; John Sheat ca 1880; Alfred Sheat ca 1880; and Victoria Street, Hamilton showing a number of shops and businesses and some advertising hoardings on the left 1908. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-007700 and 007708 Quantity: 21 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s). 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera. Physical Description: Albumen prints and silver gelatin prints

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

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: 1977

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-064-a

Description: Shows old two-storeyed stone house with lattice windows. No. 26 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink and wash drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-061/063. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E. Thomas. 77.; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E. Thomas 26/200 Kinder came to New Zealand in 1855. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 320 x 450 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.

Date: [ca 1910s]

Reference: PAColl-6888

Description: Two images of a man cutting his son's hair sitting on a waka next to the Whanganui River; two of a waka being rowed on the river and one of the crew holding their hoe; a cow being lifted by a winch into a boat; yachts and row boats in Auckland harbour for the Auckland Regatta; two of Auckland harbour ferries; a steamer at a pier on the Whanganui River; three children playing on a shore line near Auckland with a pier in the background; a group of men, women and children round a camp fire with a makeshift tent in the background; and a row of houses with the wreckage left from a fire in the foreground. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-044216 to 044228 Quantity: 13 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-021/022

Description: View over Auckland showing coastline, dwellings and trees Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 520 mm.

Date: 1977

By: Thomas, Joan Elva, 1922-

Reference: B-051-062

Description: Shows old two-storeyed house with verandah and 3 stone chimneys. No. 20 of a print run of 200. Title from notes supplied by artist. Reproduction of ink and wash drawing. Published at the same time as B-051-061, 063/064. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Joan E. Thomas. 77.; Recto - bottom right - (In pencil): Joan E. Thomas 20/200 House built for James Kemp in 1819. Gifted to the People of NZ by the Kemp family. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 320 x 450 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright by the artist in 1986.

Date: 1846

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-037

Description: Rangitoto in the left background partially concealed by North Head; other islands and headlands on the right and in the background. The roof and fence of a house close to the water in the foreground. Possibly drawn in late 1846 when Crawford was on his way from Sydney to Wellington for his second visit to New Zealand. He was aboard H. M. S. Driver, which called at the Bay of Islands, then Auckland on its route to Wellington. Other Titles - Waitemata Harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Grey ink and wash 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1940 - 1949

By: Eise, Ida Gertrude, 1891-1978

Reference: G-543

Description: View from a hill looking down on the sweep of the beach with houses lining the edge of the land. Rangitoto Island in the background Title from verso Inscriptions: Signed: I.G. Eise Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on hardboard 350 x 430 mm Provenance: The artist

Date: 1978 - 1980

Reference: Eph-D-BUILDINGS-Auckland-1978-01

Description: Shows an illustration, framed by a white outline of ornate verandah railings and posts, of a yacht sailing and a line of hills in the distance. Date based on the fact that the Mansion House restorations began in 1977. Donor estimates date at the late 1970s. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 580 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Michael Pringle, Wellington, in 2004.

Date: [ca 1870s-1880s]

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

By: Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA7-46-03

Description: Elevated view looking north towards Queen's Wharf and down over houses and buildings near and on the Auckland waterfront. Photograph taken by Herbert Deveril ca 1870s-1880s from the Northern Club, Princes Street. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom right - Princess Wharf, Auck. Donated by Mrs Scott 1977 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.3 x 35.4 cm Provenance: Donated by Mrs Scott, 1977

Date: 1863 - 1864

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

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: 1960 - 1969

From: Brown, Helen Campbell 1917-1986 :[Sketches]. 1937-1982.

By: Brown, Helen Campbell, 1917-1986; Jones, Lesley, active 1987

Reference: A-167-034

Description: Shows cottage with lean-to, flanked by cabbage trees. On page removed from spiralbound sketchbook. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - DAIRY BAY COTTAGE Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Felt-tip pen and watercolour, 253 x 378 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/ inventory available.. Provenance: Donation from the estate of the artist, 1987.

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: White, Duncan, active 1864-1868; New Zealander (Newspaper : 1845-1866)

Reference: C-060-002

Description: Shows farmland and scattered houses in Onehunga, with Manukau Harbour in the distance. Extended Title - "Printed at the 'New Zealander' Office." Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 195 x 482 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-003

Description: A view from a low hill looking down into a bay on Kawau Island, possibly behind Mansion House. Part of the back of a large house can be seen in the centre near the beach and there is a long low building to the left Inscriptions: Title in ink in the hand of the artist, on label below work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 222 mm