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Date: [ca 1889-1898]

From: Wright, Henry Charles Clarke, 1844-1936 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-020472-G

Description: Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, circa 1889-1898, with Sir George Grey's country residence on the right. Photograph taken by Henry Wright. Note on back of file print reads "Possibly Cobar at wharf". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1851

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand

Reference: PUBL-0032-02

Description: Groups of Maori and Pakeha on a plain with hills in the background, with low rises on both sides. On the left are cabbage trees. A single figure, Rangihaeata, is standing centrally, addressing Sir George Grey, who is seated in a chair close to Rangihaeata. The incident took place at Waikanae in 1851. The Library has an original watercolour version of this lithograph at C-054-004 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured lithograph, 268 x 391 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-014

Description: Shows 2 men on left, boiling a billy over a fire, with sheep and dogs, Bridle Path in centre with three men, a horse, sheep and cattle, the Heathcote River and part of the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Pegasus Bay, and smoke and trees at the site of the future Christchurch. Original sketch for etching by T.Allom published in "Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" (London, 1851. Art f919.31 / FOU). On verso: "Alphabetical list of the first purchasers of land at the Canterbury settlement" and references to correspondence between Governor Grey and Earl Grey. Other Titles - Lyttelton = Christchurch; River Avon or Shakespeare = Heathcote River; Forty Miles Beach = Pegasus Bay Cf similar watercolour in the Hocken Library: Part of the Great Plain Canterbury, N.Z. 1851 (neg.1/2-105095-F) taken from the same spot by the same artist but with no staffage. This ink drawing may be a copy by H. J. Cridland of Fox's original, or of one of the prints of the same scene published in August 1851. Compare the style of A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective, and the style of rendering figures. The artist was present to welcome the first settlers in Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 he was back in England for some time before returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 206 x 321 mm (wedge cut from upper left corner) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London? Processing information: Originally tipped in to Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136]. Removed 1987 or 1988.

Date: [ca 1868]

From: Mundy album 1

Reference: PA1-f-039-12

Description: Collection of Maori artifacts at the residence of Sir George Grey, on Kawau Island. Photograph taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, circa 1868. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom left - 42. Kawau Island. - Residence of Sir. G. Grey, K.C.B. - Maori Curios Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 208 x 256 mm, mounted on to the album page

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: B-030-002

Description: Shows a view of Lake Rotomahana from Ngawhara Hill. Two men stand on the left, by a dead tree, pointing at the lake. To the right is a whare. In the lake is a small island (Puai Island) with steam rising and several low Maori dwellings. The White Terraces and mountains are in the background. On the right is a whare. For detailed description of the view see: Journal Taranaki by way of Rotorua, Taupo and the West Coast undertaken in the summer of 1849-50 by his Excellency the Governor-in-chief of New Zealand. Auckland 1851 Other Titles - Rotomahana Lake, 29 December 1849. Inscriptions: (On accompanying paper label in pen): [Title] See also P S RNK 113 1/2; RNK 114 1/2; 115 1/2; RNK 116/1/2 which are by G F Swainson after C C Clarke and appear to have been sketched by Clarke on the same expedition See also drawing in the British Library by Clarke, 'Rotomahana Lake New Zealand Aug 1850' (Add. MS 19954, Folio 30 (33) which is very similar to this view, complete with dead tree and two gesturing figures on the left, a whare to the right, an island with buildings in the centre of the lake. Sir George Grey is identified as the left-hand figure. (Photograph in photo files in Drawings, Paintings & Prints; also a copy at E-144-030) Attributed to Cuthbert Clarke. Painted on Sir George Grey's expedition 1849-1850 The title is taken from a note on an accompanying label, and does not imply that Cuthbert Clarke's father is depicted (see AT 3/1/1/, 30 March 1983). The provenance of the work is unknown, but it is likely that the figure depicted is either G. S. Cooper (Grey's assistant private secretary), or Lieut. Symonds; both these men accompanied Grey on his expedition. Symonds had no children, so the 'father' referred to is most likely to be Cooper. Another slight possibility is that the label was written by a child of Cuthbert Clarke's. He had two sons born in Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1856 and 1858. His wife died on the birth of the second son; Clarke died in 1863, leaving the children as young orphans, whose fate is unknown. However the reference to 'Sir G Grey' suggests someone familiar with Grey, who was famous in New Zealand, rather than in Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 185 x 252 mm

Date: September 1862

From: Harper, Laura Helen Bruce, 1888-1970: Photographs

Reference: PA2-2121

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Sir George Grey seated with Te Riwai Ropiha standing behind him taken in Wanganui. Photographer unidentified. The persons in this photograph were identified by a Library staff member from the inscription. Inscriptions: Verso - Sir Geo. Grey Governor of New Zealand Sept 1862 Wanganui Te Riwai Ropiha The person depicted in this photograph was identified in the Facial Recognition project results as a likely match to the person depicted in photograph with file name "016 Geo Grey" inscribed "Promising George" and "Sir George Grey" in the digitised album at MSDL-2175. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: The photograph described in this record was included in a Library Facial Recognition project conducted in 2018. The project used an open source Python algorithm and verification by staff to find facial matches across a dataset of digitised carte-de-visite photographs held by the Library.

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-006

Description: A very large wooden construction (hakari) with flags flying from poles on the top. There are people climbing up its sides, seated beneath it and moving round its base. Piles of food are also on the ground The hakari was erected at Kororareka (modern Russell) Bay of Islands to contain the food at a feast given by the local chiefs in honour of Sir George Grey Compare with a watercolour version at B-030-007 and E-144-002 (British Museum version), both by Cuthbert Clarke, as well as another very similar version in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. This sketch was previously attributed to Sir George Grey Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and coloured crayon, 271 x 381 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull? Probably part of E-320-f, an album of watercolours by John Williams, Cyprian Bridge and others purchased by Turnbull from W. Brown of Edinburgh, 19 July 1893.

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: 1849

By: Johnston, James, active 1848-1860; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: B-030-008

Description: An elderly Maori man reclining on a bier, while the Rev. Thomas Chapman stands at his head, prayer-book (or Bible) in his hand. Four other European men are present inside a large temple-like structure, while a large crowd of seated and standing Maori surround the central group. Descriptive notes form part of the title: "Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, being at Te Ariki, witnessed the baptism of an old chief, and was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made, and kindly forwarded it to the Church Missionary Society. Te Ngahue is supposed to have been nearly eighty years old, and in all probability was near his end. He had long been a candidate for baptism, and had, with much labour, learned to read a little, and appeared to be looking to Christ for the salvation of his soul. He had not been able to master the Catechism and other elementary books usually required to be learned by heart; but under all the circumstances, Mr Chapman thought it right to comply with the earnest desire of himself and his friends that he should be baptised at once. He was brought into the Chapel on an amo, or native litter and was baptized by the name of Hori (George). Having shaken hands with the Governor, Mr Chapman and other visitors, he was carefully wrapped up again in his handsome native mats, and borne back to his house. A full account is given in the 'Church Missionary Intelligencer' for March 1851 ... taken from the Journal of His Excellency's Assistant Private Secretary." A black and white version (with no tinting) folded to fit the volume, was published in: Church Missionary Intelligencer, March 1851, facing p. 70. See also Church Missionary Gleaner, 1884 p. 18 for a reprint of the earlier plate. A hand-coloured version is in the Rex Nan Kivell collection, National Library of Australia. In the same collection, there is also an oil by W. McCarty, dated 1875, of the same scene, clearly based on this engraving. See B-030-003 for original pencil sketch attributed to Cuthbert Clarke See p. 222 of: Journal of an exhibition overland from Auckland to Taranaki... [by G.S. Cooper] for a description of this scene Other Titles - Thomas Chapman Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Monochrome tinted wood engraving 216 x 355 mm

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: B-030-005

Description: Sir George Grey's party in the distance, standing at the front of the church. The view is an interior one, unfinished, showing the rafter and tukuktuku panel details of this Maori church. See Journal of an expedition overland from Auckland to Taranaki... [ by G S Cooper] p. 60, for a description of this scene Sketch made on Sir George Grey's expedition, 1849-1850, overland from Thames to Taupo Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 228 x 356 mm

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: 1/2-060126-F

Description: Mansion house and garden at Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island. Photograph taken by the Burton Brothers. Kawau Island was purchased by George Grey in 1862 and Mansion House was built in 1871. He introduced exotic flora and fauna from temperate and subtropical regions around the world to the island which he sold in 1888. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1864

By: Calvert, Samuel, 1828-1913; Illustrated Melbourne post (Periodical)

Reference: A-109-077

Description: Shows groups of Maori sitting, standing, interacting, talking, on the shore of the inlet, with Governor Grey's house in the background. There is a small jetty and a mast erected on the foreshore in front of the house. Other Titles - Kawau Inscriptions: Recto - top right - [In pencil]: 25/11/64 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Handcoloured wood engraving, 170 x 225 mm, on partial page 220 x 282 mm.

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: B-030-004

Description: View of the interior of the church, looking from the entrance end towards the altar end of the church and showing central pillars supporting the roof, the altar and pulpit and Maori worshippers leaning against the pillars or seated on the floor. The windows are in arched Gothic revival style. See Journal of an expedition overland from Auckland to Taranaki... [ by G S Cooper] p. 60, for a description of this scene The central pillars are an adaptation of Maori meeting house style [Drawn on Sir George Grey's expedition, 1849-50] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 252 x 354 mm

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-002

Description: View looking across the settlement to the Sugar Loaves. Shows bullock teams coming from the beach at the right, and men clearing the bush in the right foreground. In the left foreground a Maori tends three goats. At the centre is Mount Eliot, with the summer residence of Sir George Grey (formerly that of J. T. Wicksteed). The view is derived from "View of Mount Eliot ... " in C. F. Hursthouse's "An account of the settlement of New Plymouth ..." (London, 1849), opp. p.76. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H. Maplestone Maplestone is believed not ever to have come to New Zealand. At the time Maplestone dated his paintings, Brees was displaying in London and elsewhere his New Zealand panorama, and Hursthouse was lecturing on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 305 x 460 mm.

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-003

Description: The Rev Thomas Chapman officiating right of centre, bald-headed and wearing spectacles, with a crowd of English and Maori spectators, around the reclining aged chief Te Ngahue, who was baptised on his deathbed. Te Ariki was on Tarawera Lake. Sir George Grey is probably the standing figure in profile at Te Ngahue's feet while the smaller dark man standing behind him with handlebar moustache and side whiskers is likely to be Grey's secretary, John Jermyn Symonds An accompanying MS note by A H Turnbull attributes this sketch to Sir George Grey, but B30/8, a tinted wood engraving after this sketch, says that "Sir George Grey... was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made".. Turnbull's attribution has obviously been taken from the Church Missionary Gleaner, 1884, p. 18 which says that Grey "made a sketch of on the spot.", The sketch was initially reproduced as a wood engraving in the Church Missionary Intelligencer, March 1851, opp. p. 70, with descriptive text of the event on p. 71. See: Journal of an expedition overland from Auckland to Taranaki ...[by George Sisson Cooper] p. 222-226 for a description of this event. Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil in the hand of Alexander Turnbull, with an attribution to Sir George Grey. A note in another hand suggests that the artist is Cuthbert Clarke. There is also another faint sketch on the verso, showing a European dwelling or similar structure, a distinctive conical hill with fencing at its base in the centre and possibly a cow in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 251 x 338 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Angus and Robertson, Sydney, April 1917 (although described as 'a print' in the correspondence of 23 Jan and 12 April 1917).

Date: [ca 1912-1914]

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

Reference: 1/2-001652-G

Description: View of Auckland Town Hall taken from Queen Street with the statue of Sir George Grey on the left and Grey Street on the right. A large crowd is gathered and all are looking towards the photographer. On the right is a horse and cart with a number of young men standing on board, some with cards in their hatbands. The reason for the gathering is not indicated but it may have been to listen to speeches by a politican or trade unionist. The business premises of George Higgins, bootmaker can be seen on the right behind the crowd. Photograph taken by William A Price, ca 1912-1914. Another view of the Town Hall, taken on the same day, is available at 1/2-000165-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Grey's statue and Town Hall. Auckland. 105E [?] 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 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: [ca 1910]

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

Reference: 1/2-000166-G

Description: View of Auckland Town Hall taken from Queen Street with the statue of Sir George Grey in the foreground. Greys Avenue can be seen on the right of the Town Hall. Photograph taken by William A Price. Another view of the Town Hall, taken on the same day, is available at 1/2-000165-G Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Grey's statue and Town Hall. Auckland. 105E [?] 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: 1892

By: Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: C-033-003

Description: Shows Sir George Grey, Captain R. A. Oliver of H. M. S. Fly, and Colonel Wynyard with troops of 58th Regiment and Royal N.Z. Fencibles, meeting Maori warriors. H.M.S. Fly in harbour at background. Supplement to: Auckland Weekly News, Christmas number, December 17th, 1892. First published in the New Zealand herald, 24 April 1880. According to Una Platts in The Lively Capital (1971), p. 164, the lithograph is after Kennett Watkins Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two tone lithograph 15.4 x 20.5 inches

Date: 1877

By: Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924

Reference: D-022-010

Description: Shows Mansion House Bay also called Bon Accord Harbour, on Kawau Island, with the Mansion House, a flagpole on the water's edge, the wharf and a paddlesteamer approaching the shore. The view is framed by pohutukawa trees which are identified in a caption in the left foreground. The coastline of Auckland is in the far distance. The Mansion House is shown at a time before the verandah extension was built. The work is signed at lower right by the artist, and also by Sir George Grey ("G.Grey") and Lavinia Coates, the sister of Grey's banker friend Sir James Coates. The artist painted three views of Kawau Island while staying there in January 1877. The other two works are in Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa. Only this view shows a steamer in the bay (Bon Accord Harbour) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 400 x 590 mm (sight)

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Williams, John, -1905?; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-030-007

Description: An enormous open hakari, or wooden construction, with flags flying from poles on the top and people climbing up its sides, seated beneath it, and moving around its base. A long low whare is in the foreground, with another at right angles to it, and piles of food are on the ground with the whole enclosed by a low fence. This watercolour was originally in the Bridge/Williams album (E-320-f). See also: B-030-006, E-144-002 and a watercolour in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia for three other almost identical views by Cuthbert Clarke. This view appears to be a copy by John Williams The feast was mounted at Russell (Kororareka) in honour of Governor George Grey Other Titles - Williams, John, d 1905 Inscriptions: Cuthbert Clarke del. September 1849; Recto - bottom right - title in ink [not in the hand of Cuthbert Clarke; probably the hand of John Williams] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 302 x 427 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased from W. Brown of Edinburgh, 19 July 1893, as part of album E-320-f, along with drawings watercolours by Cyprian Bridge and John Williams in the same album. Was possibly on the final page of the album