Places

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: 1888

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-098

Description: Shows a two-storied house amidst trees and a garden with a picket fence running down the side. There is a ladder and a wheelbarrow on the ground by the side of the house. The plants include a banana palm and bamboo. Thomas Joyce was farmer and boarding-housekeeper (see qMS Worsfold. L. Social History of Russell pp. 91-92) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 110 x 180 mm, in album

Date: 1841

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

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1860

By: Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861; Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997

Reference: A-306-004

Description: Shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Virtually identical to the drawing at A-306-003-1, but with slightly heavier shading. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860, according to Shirley Tunnicliffe. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1860

From: [Nicholson, Maria], fl 1859-62 :Episcopal [house] Nelson [from the south. 1860], with map on recto by Mary Hobhouse.

By: Payne, A D (Mrs), active 1997; Nicholson, Maria, active 1859-1861

Reference: A-306-003-1

Description: Recto shows house in Nelson rented by Bishop Hobhouse 1859-63. Shows shingled roof, ladder on roof, chimneys, basins and bowls on ledge outside cooking hut. Chapel at right has skylights in the roof. Shows garden in foreground, with water-pump and trough, trees and shrubs. Verso shows plan of house from above. According to a hand-drawn map deposited at the same time, and probably also drawn by Maria Nicholson, this house was in Grattan Street, in The Wood area of Nelson. According to Shirley Tunnicliff, Maria Nicholson lived with the Hobhouse family from Easter to June 1860. Other Titles - Bishop Hobhouse's residence and chapel, Nelson, from the south Verso has plan of house by Mary Hobhouse. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 142 x 235 mm.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: A-196-015

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 mm

Date: 1843

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-051-1

Description: Rough sketch showing the Waimate Pa in Taranaki, with its dwellings ranged along the top of a cliff, and accessible by cliff ladders from the bottom of the cliff. There is a small lake contained in the curve of the cliff at the bottom. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pen and ink, 90 x 150 mm.