Places

Date: 1856

By: Florance, Augustus (Dr), 1812-1879

Reference: C-031-005

Description: A horse and male rider standing at Petone where the Hutt road begins along the cliff-face, with sea and bush clad hills beyond Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 305 x 381 mm

Date: 1861

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: C-003-004

Description: This is a larger and more finished version of the image at C-003-001. Nine-part panorama forming a complete circle, of the view from the parsonage attached to St James Anglican Church Lower Hutt. Shows the parsonage with surrounding houses and farms, cleared land, roads, bush and hills in the background. There are men on horseback, a light horse-drawn trap, men ploughing with a horse-drawn plough, and a wagon drawn by two horses. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At lower edge of each panel): TBH; Album page - centre - (On verso of one of the panels): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 173 x 2250 mm, on nine joined panels, each 173 x 250 mm Provenance: Purchased from a direct descendant of Bishop Selwyn, who previously owned the works. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - A2001-248.

Date: 1893

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook] November 1893

Reference: E-031-q-2-004

Description: Two horses drawing a cart with four men down a steep road. The road winds ahead down hills towards Lake Waipori. There are notes about 'fine rain effect on Lake Waipori' and 'Mist and rain coming up the Lammerlaws'. One hill in the distance is named as 'Mangatua' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing in sketchbook, page size 151 x 218 mm

Date: 1863 - 1868

From: Illustrated London News :[Scrapbook of clippings relating to New Zealand 1860s]

By: Australian journal

Reference: E-372-f-015-1

Description: Shows two men with a pack horse walking down the road towards the harbour. Three sailing ships can be seen in Lyttelton Harbour. Other Titles - Lyttelton Harbour Extended Title - From The Australian journal. vol 6, p 505 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 190 x 235 mm

Date: 1883

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-066-3

Description: A scene on the Riverton Road, near Invercargill showing a woman, with child in arms, standing by a gate. A horse is grazing on the roadside Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On the Riverton Road near Invercargill Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 150 x 202 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-028

Description: A steep road leading up the side of a hill, with five horses being ridden or led up it, looking back towards the Canterbury Plains. The leading person on horseback is the artist's wife, Caroline, riding side-saddle Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 139 x 165 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E Laing, England, 18 July 1940

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1887

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Dawson, William, 1852-1923

Reference: C-126-007

Description: A covered wagon, drawn by six horses entering a wide river from a stony bank. A lone man on horseback and a dog are swimming half way across the river, ahead of the wagon. On the far side of the river is an empty plain, with tall hills in the background. Jacobs River has reverted to its Maori name, Aparima Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Ford Jacob's river [nr, i.e. near?] Wrey's Bush. C. Aubrey. 1887. [in black brushpoint]; Backing board verso - bottom left - Belonged to Grandpa William Dawson "May Villa" Dunedin. To Ian & Ray [?] From Mother For Nov. 22.d 1947. 33 Drivers Road, Maori Hill, Dunedin.; Backing board verso - top right - V5127 BSSS [Backing board discarded after conservation of the work] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 297 x 523 mm Provenance: Dawson family, Dunedin, early 1900s to 1940s and possibly later.

Date: [1850s?]

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-009-005

Description: Attributed to William Howard Homes on stylistic grounds. Shows Mathieson and Schultze's flourmill to the right with a red-cloaked man leading a horse along Old Porirua Road on the left. Wellington Harbour can be seen in the distance, the building on the near-side of the harbour is possibly the Rainbow Hotel. Matiu / Somes Island and Wellington City are also shown. Title transcribed from item. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom left - The Harbour from Keiwara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on card Processing information: Description updates 5 April 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-071-2

Description: A road across a grassed flat surface, made of logs lying side by side. Tree stumps surround the road with bush just beyond and on the left are a Maori family, a tent and two European men, one on horseback. Another Maori man is seated alongside the road, between two tree stumps, holding a long slim branch in the air. Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 150 x 255 mm

Date: 1877 - 1875

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40

Description: View looking east into the gorge, with the Otira River, the road to the left, with four horses pulling a Cobb & Co coach, alone horseman further up the road. Rata forests on both sides and mountains in the background. According to the accompanying text, the view is taken just below the well-known zig-zag and just before the house of accommodation where the coach changes horses. The Library holds the watercolour on which this chromolithograph was based at B-004-022, with title Otira Gorge, West Coast Road, from Mount Alexander, Dec 1874. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 252 x 355 mm

Date: 1891

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-011

Description: Shows houses in the small town of Eketahuna in the middle distance, behind a large depression, around which a road has been made. Horses graze in the right foreground, a horse and carriage travels from the right towards the town, and in the right distance is a white church or school building. Some land clearing has been done in the depression which has some tree stumps and trunks lying on the ground. File prints of other versions identify the horse and carriage as the stage coach from Alfredton. One of several versions of the same view, each with minor variations (See other file prints in Drawings & Prints, for versions held elsewhere). Reproduced in colour, facsimile sized, as the cover illustration for Christopher Aubrey (fl 1876-1906). The Alexander Turnbull Library Prints 1979. (Wellington, Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board, 1979). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1891 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 352 x 587 mm

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-073-1

Description: A cutting, shortly after the formation of the Rimutaka Hill Road, with cleared tree trunks and the road curving. A Maori family are walking a horse along the road and a steep, heavily bushed hill rises behind the road. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 255 x 160 mm

Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: B-159-024

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman with a child on the woman's back, walking beside their packhorse on a road at the left. The packhorse is laden with red saddlebags. The road continues into the foreground and curves away again to the right, disappearing into a bushcovered hilly area. The couple are passing a central rata tree in flower, and there are bushcovered hills in the distance. In the foreground in front of the rata is a pool or section of a river. Location suggested to be the Hutt Valley, but may be one of the gorges off the western side of the harbour, possibly near the old Porirua Road. Letter of authentication dated 24 August 1983 on backing board. Sometimes known as "Maori travellers ..." Other Titles - Maori travellers with packs and horse, pack horse, Hutt Valley [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 262 mm. Provenance: Formerly owned by the artist's great granddaughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock. Auctioned at McArthur & Company Auckland in October 1983 (lot 28)

Date: 1875 - 1891

By: Beetham, Lucelle Frances, 1842-1910; Taine, Josephine Lorna, 1899-1996

Reference: A-178-009

Description: View of the Manawatu Gorge with a rider on horseback on the road beside the river in the distance and another figure walking behind the horse. The road is formed on the right side of the river but there is no railway line on the left. Native bush is shown beside the river and on the hillsides. The road through the Gorge was completed in 1875. The railway on the north bank did not go in until 1891. These facts suggest that this work was completed between 1875 and 1891. Also Richmond Beetham and his wife Lucelle (the artist) moved to Napier in 1876. The phrase "Mrs Beetham" appears to be in a different hand from the title. It may refer either to the identity of the artist or to an owner. The style is very like that of several members of the Swainson family. Lucelle Swainson married artist Richmond Beetham and seems a likely artist for this work. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and Mrs Beetham, the latter in a different hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 250 x 350 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-029

Description: View from the Hutt Gorge, with a road to the left, a man leading a horse and a dog into a bush-clad area, the Hutt River meandering between bush-clad banks in the distance See Illustrated London News, p 37 Jan 16 1847 for a wood engraving from this watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 373 mm

Date: 1870

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Scrymgeour, William John Tyndal, 1922?-; Grey, George (Sir), 1812-1898

Reference: D-022-006

Description: View from cleared hills with several native trees, a road winding down to the right, with a gate and a man on a dray being pulled by two horses. The harbour with two ships centre and centre right, with Somes Island to the right. On the left in the middle distance, part of Thorndon, with St Paul's Church and a jetty. The Western hills, the Hutt Valley, Eastbourne and the Tararuas in the distance. Probably a view from above The Glen in Kelburn Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.Barraud. 1870 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white 455 x 785 mm Provenance: Hung with a watercolour of Lake Coleridge Station, 1870 (D-022-007), in Government House, Wellington, during the governorship of Sir George Grey. Sold at auction in Wellington to the vendor's grandfather, also a Mr Scrymgeour (or Scrimgeour) in the 1880s or 1890s. Mr Scrymgeour migrated to Australia in the early 1900s to Goondawindi Station. The paintings passed to his son (died 1968) then to his grandson, William John Tyndal Scrymgeour, born ca 1922, of "Arran", Warwick, Queensland.

Date: 1889

By: Baker, William George, 1864-1929

Reference: G-295

Description: Shows the river in the centre, the road to the right, and, in the distance to the left, either the railway being constructed or a steam train coming through. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil painting on canvas 554 x 762 mm Provenance: Purchased February 1960 from Mr Appleby, Wellington

Date: 1865 - 1880

By: Green, Samuel Edwy, 1838-1935

Reference: B-174-004

Description: Shows a view looking down on a scattering of houses along the lake shore, and a train proceeding from the right along a railway track towards the left. There is a line of around a dozen trees planted at the edge of the foreground paddock where a cow and two horses are grazing. There are two sailboats on the lake and hills in the distance. Similar to view at B-116-013. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 253 x 440 mm (sight) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1854 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-073-2

Description: A view from the top of the Rimutaka Hill, looking down over the road winding through dense bush towards the plains of the Wairarapa. A Maori family is leading a horse down the road. One tree to the left in the foreground is a rata in flower and there is a tree-fern on the right. The artist is incorrect in his statement about the Rimutaka Range being part of the Ruahine Range. It is part of the Tararua Range. The phrase 'anglice Waidrop' refers to the common nineteenth century English version of the Maori word Wairarapa. Other Titles - English Waidrop Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & ink, 155 x 240 mm