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Date: 1848 - 1852

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-172-013

Description: A rough sketch with a view from Thorndon, looking towards Lambton Quay, and Te Aro, with Government House and its flagpole in the foreground, the waterfront (Lambton Quay) with several houses visible, Clay Point indicated and Mount Cook beyond it, with the Barracks. Bush with either tree ferns or cabbage trees is indicated in the near foreground. There are three ships in the harbour Attribution: attributed by the Library on cataloguing, 1980, to H J Warre. However the handwriting is not that of Warre, and the style appears less precise than his. This is one of four drawings in the same hand, with the same provenance, (A-172-013 to -016) one of which appears to be a preliminary drawing for a watercolour by Colonel C E Gold. The group of four was reattributed to Gold in 2011 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 222 x 285 mm

Date: [1860s-1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-06

Description: View of Sir George's Grey home on Kawau Island, taken from `The Terrace' to the left of the house, by Daniel Louis Munday, in 1860s or as late as 1870s. Shows the garden area to the left of the house, the flagpole and the jetty. Other views of Sir George Grey's house and garden possibly taken on same day at PA1-f-039, p11 and PA7-48-03. Same image at PA1-f-039, p 10. Inscriptions: Mount verso - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.3 x 25.2 cm on card 26 x 34 cm

Date: 1871

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook. Southland views. 1871]

Reference: E-016-6-008/009

Description: Stewart Island in the background, with the mouth of the Aparima River to the right and Foveaux Strait in the middle ground. A signal flagpole is on the far bank of the river Jacobs River has reverted to its Maori name, Aparima River Other Titles - Aparima River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 101 x 177 mm

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-016

Description: Shows three different vignettes, one of Cave Rock with a small building and flagpole on top; one view of Rock seen from the Sumner side looking back towards Redcliffs; and one of a headland, possibly Scarborough Heads. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm.

Date: 1878

By: Robertson, David Ogilvie, 1850?-1920

Reference: B-187-004

Description: A view of a busy Port Chalmers harbour, showing various unidentified steamships, sailships and rowboats. Notable landmarks include the flagstaff at the top of Aurora Terrace; the Holy Trinity Church in Scotia Street; and Iona Church in Mount Street. The road winding from the port towards Carey's Bay can be seen on the right, with a man and woman travelling along it in a horse-drawn trap and with a dog running behind. The intersection of Grey Street and George Street, the port's main street, can bee seen in the distance D Robertson, the artist, is likely to be David Ogilvie Robertson, son of mariner and marine artist Captain Thomas Robertson, who resided in Port Chalmers. It is uncertain as to whether David Robertson was also a captain, but his 1898 painting of the 'John Wickliffe' in port and the 'Philip Laing' arriving with the first settlers landing in Dunedin, is stylistically similar Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Port Chalmers 1878 - Capt. D. Robertson [printed]; Recto - bottom right - Painting reproduced by courtesy / Port Chalmers Borough Council [printed] Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 252 x 410 mm, on sheet 275 x 430 mm Transfers: Collection as a whole taken into Ephemera; three art prints transferred on appraisal to Drawings Paintings & Prints, 4 January 2013.

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-012/013

Description: An extensive view of the Bay of Islands, with various features noted, including the flagstaff above Kororareka (Russell), the Roman Catholic chapel standing on its own on the hill and Bishop Pompallier's house, all seen in the distance. The panorama is continued on the next page (E-137-q-014) Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in ink in the artist's hand. Also across the top, in another hand, in pencil 'An excellent view of the ground about Kororareka taken from Paihia Wh... that the plan in the Illustrated London news is ... from brig. The sketch then was ... vol. of ... [last words partially erased, several words illegible] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, across two pages, 220 x 571 mm

Date: 1851 - 25/04/1922

By: Jones, Theodore Moreton, 1828-1895

Reference: C-003-002

Description: Three-part work, showing, in the left section, the flagstaff atop the hill; in the centre, houses along the foreshore, with the Catholic church on top of the low hillock near the shore; in the right section, further houses and (left to right) the Protestant Church as a yellow 5-windowed building on shore, the parsonage (Mr Dudley's) behind, Pompallier House (the blue-roofed building on shore) with the printery behind and the Bishop's bungalow alongside it. Paintings can be assembled (imprecisely) to form panorama (length 75 cm.) from Flagstaff Hill to Pompallier House, Printery and Bishop's bungalow; title from ink inscription on the right hand section Other Titles - Kororareka Russell Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 89 x 257 mm, 85 x 258 mm and 76 x 227 mm Provenance: Anoymous donation: 23 October 1963

Date: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: A-049-023

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with Bruce's Hotel and jetty, a flagpole, a settler's cottage, Maori drawing a canoe up onto the beach, and a larger house in trees behind Other Titles - January Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on grey paper 140 x 240 mm

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-017

Description: Shows Cave Rock with a small building and flagpole on top. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm.

Date: 1856

By: Chapman, Alfred, 1828-1874

Reference: A-090-013

Description: Wellington seen from Bolton Street cemetery with fenced graves in the foreground, the flagpole at Government House visible lower down the hill and the houses of Thorndon to the left. The view looks north across Wellington Harbour with Somes Island and the Hutt Valley and Tararua Range in the distance Another very similar view in an album by Chapman - 'Wellington burying ground' - is held by the Hawkes Bay Cultural Trust. A photographic copy is the Drawings & Prints files Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 250 mm

Date: 1870

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-011/012

Description: Looking across water with Shag Rock on the left, Sumner Beach on the right (with sand-hills noted), Cave Rock centre and Scarborough Hill in the background. Cave Rock has a flagstaff on top. There are two boats moored in the still water Hodgkins visited Banks Peninsula (including Akaroa), Lyttelton, Sumner and Christchurch in 1870 Hodgkins produced two watercolours based on this sketch - Entrance to the Sumner River, Canterbury, from the Christchurch road, reference number C-110-011; and The Shag Rock, Sumner, reference number A-027-018 Extended Title - Christchurch Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1849

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-020

Description: View from a rocky foreshore, with a bush-clad headland to the right, looking across to Kororareka (now Russell) with several houses along the beach at the town and, at the west end, the large hakari built to celebrate the visit of Governor Grey at Christmas, 1849. Rising above the hakari (large food storage platform or scaffolding) is a series of hills with a flagpole on top of the highest hill Compare the wood engraving illustration of the same scene from A. S. Thompson's The Story of New Zealand (London, 1859), with caption Kororareka in 1849 from a sketch by Colonel Bridge. The location of Bridge's drawing or watercolour is not known. The wood engraving includes the carved prow of a large waka on the far right, and another large waka in the water being rowed into shore. Williams' pencil drawing includes a very small waka on the water. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 252 x 365 mm Transfers: Removed from the Bridge / Williams sketchbook E-320-f? The paper is the same as A-079-019, also removed from this sketchbook, and marks alongthe left side on the verso of the work suggest that it was once glued into a bound volume.

Date: [ca 1864]

By: Martin, Albin, 1812?-1888

Reference: A-160-008

Description: Shows Ngaruawahia Maori village at the junction of the Waikato and Waipa Rivers with military tents around it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 120 x 180 mm

Date: [ca 1885]

Reference: 1/2-020458-F

Description: St Faith's Church, alongside a pa and a wooden, carved, Maori flagpole, photographed by Alfred Burton on about 1885. Foundation stone of church laid by the Bishop of Waiapu on 5 June 1884. Church consectated by same bishop 17 March 1885. (Information from Rev'd Stephen Donald, Feruary, 2009). Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864

By: Atcherley, Henry Mount Langton, active 1860-1903; King, F A (Mrs), active 1949

Reference: A-196-009

Description: View from a plain towards an abrupt hill, surmounted by a fort, containing tents, other dwellings and a flag-pole. There is a broad path leading up to the hill on the right, several soldiers and three dwellings at the base of the hill on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - H. M. L. Atcherley; Recto - bottom right - [Title. Both inscriptions in red brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 142 x 226 mm

Date: [ca1867]

From: Saxby, Stephen Hector, 1907- :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-214-24

Description: View of a large house, newly built on Victoria Avenue, Wanganui, New Zealand. The near side shows the exterior wall of a conservatory, and the shadow of a flag can be seen at the top of a flagpole. The house sits alone in a cleared pastoral landscape facing Victoria Avenue. The extent of its section is indicated by plantings of young trees along the boundary. A broom hedge can also be seen on the near boundary. Other fencing hedges can be seen along paddock boundaries, in some places mixed with post and rail fences. A low plank fence runs along the edge of Victoria Avenue. Other buildings can be seen in the distance. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, oval shaped, 24.3 x 18.5 cm, mounted on album page.

Date: 1868 - 1872

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Lake Wakatipu, Banks Peninsula, Dunedin and its outskirts, Central Otago, Lake Wanaka, Oamaru, 1868, 1872, 1876, 1878]

Reference: E-016-5-057/058

Description: A large house and garden with a signalling flagpole A small inscription lower left reads 'Byron's Head' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 98 x 154 mm

Date: 1851

From: [Jones, Theodore Morton] 1828-1895 :Kororarika, Bay of Islands ; formerly the seat of government of New Zealand (burnt by natives) / [T M Jones] [1851?]

By: Jones, Theodore Moreton, 1828-1895

Reference: C-003-002-1

Description: The left-hand section of a three-part work, showing the flagstaff atop the hill Other Titles - Kororareka Russell Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 89 x 257 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-004-2

Description: The wharf and perhaps Green's house with a flagpole and another house to its right, Mount Berard (Flag Peak) rising to the south behind the town Mount Berard was later renamed Flag Peak Other Titles - Akaroa Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date [in ink] From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & pencil, 126 x 135, on buff-coloured sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm

Date: 1874

By: Chapman, Ernest Arthur, 1847-1933

Reference: A-132-014

Description: Shows a view of Lake Taupo with houses to the left and right of the source of the Waikato River. The Central Plateau with Mount Ruapehu, and other snowy peaks is shown.The vegetation in the left foreground includes toetoe. on the shore in the middle distance is a partly-built boat, probably the Victoria, a steamer launched July 1874 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - EAC / 1874 A similar view from the same spot, dated 1874 by C D Barraud is in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. It is possibly the original for Barraud's chromolithograph 'Lake Taupo' published in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877), opp. p. 20. Another similar watercolour by Charles Decimus Barraud, dated 1883, was on sale as lot 832 at Cordy's antique auction, 13 October 2009 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 350 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.