Places

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-005

Description: A European house behind a long wooden fence, with other buildings beyond it, including a large whare to the right. A bell is at the top of a tall post in the middle distance. Mount Kakapuka is identified in the background. The stumps of two trees and fallen trunks are in the foreground Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Kakepuku Sketched near Te Kopua on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa Rivers, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 100 x 205 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-006

Description: An extensive view from a high standpoint, looking down over Raglan Harbour. A tree fern, ferns and tree trunks with epiphytes in the foreground, and the church and mission station of Rev. James Wallis at Nihinihi in the distance, close to the water. Further hills in the background Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Whaingaroa Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato, December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 167 x 238 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-002

Description: Shows the Rev. B. Y. Ashwell's first Mission Station, at Pepepe or Taupiri, located beside the Waikato River. There are high, bush-clad hills behind the house which has a fenced garden. A canoe is close to the station on the river. There is a cabbage tree in the right foreground. In the upper left portion of the view is A-208-003 "Architecture New Zealandic" a sepia sketch of the front and interior of a Maori wharenui or meeting house. Probably sketched on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa rivers in December 1843. Sketched on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa Rivers in December 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 153 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-009

Description: Shows Maraetai, the Rev. Robert Maunsell's Church Missionary Society Mission station, Waikato Heads, with buch-clad hills to the left and behind the house. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Maunsell Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 185 x 236 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-004

Description: The interior of a Maori church, with tukutuku panels between the upright beams in the walls and two central beams supporting the ridge-pole. Ten Maori are seated inside. Along the top, the artist has written the Maori for various building terms: roof tuanui, beam kanae, rafters keke, door tatau, lath ehako, posts wapu. He also adds 'The beams, posts, rafters etc are not squared but very neatly adzed'. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Whare karakia, Whatawhata. This is the usual construction. Notes on architecture in the upper and lower margins (including the Maori names for various parts of the building) and the text of the Lord's Prayer in Maori on the back Sketched on Ashworth's trip up the Waikato and Waipa rivers, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 195 x 210 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-007

Description: An extensive view from a high standpoint looking down over Raglan Harbour. The buildings on the right in the distance are those of Rev. J. Wallis's Wesleyan Mission house and chapel Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Sketched on Ashworth's trip to the Waikato, December 1843 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink & watercolour 256 x 343 mm