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Date: [ca 1880-1910]

From: Scenery Preservation Board :Scenic photographs of New Zealand

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920; De Tourret, Ernest, active 1909-1912; New Zealand. Tourism Department; Partington, William Henry Thomas, 1854-1940; Scenery Preservation Board

Reference: PAColl-0444-1

Description: Photographs of the following: a set of seven photographs by Collis and annotated by F P Corkill, land agent, re landholding around the Waiwhakaiho River; scenic views such as waterfalls, lakes, and the Pink and White Terraces; bridges with annotations re height etc; sixteen numbered photographs mounted two to a card of scenic views in the Taranaki Region, Rotorua and the far north (including ones of Taumaha Gorge, Taranaki and Lake Ora - location unidentified); a set of seven photographs of the Waipu Caves including Lot's wife, the anvil and the sugar loaf in Morrison's Cave; a clipping of St Paul's Cupola and a photograph of Kauri Gully, Northcote with annotations on resolutions passed re the establishment of reservations; a panorama in two photographs of Flagstaff Hill, Dunedin with annotations re a potential reserve; and two of a tramping party of three men and five boys resting at a waterfall. Includes a recent hand-written list of the photographs. Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Mounted prints

Date: 1860

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-016-2

Description: Looking south along the beach towards Paritutu rock, with the palisades of Moturoa Pa on the left, the vessel 'Taranaki' on the beach below the pa, groups of people, horses and carts Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 115 x 200 mm

Date: 1903

From: Barraud, William Francis 1850-1926 :[New Zealand scenes. Sketchbook] Taranaki. Manapouri. Diamond Lake. Blenheim. [1903-1905]

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: E-067-003

Description: Paritutu, seen along the beach, looking south Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 127 x 178 mm

Date: 1930 - 1949

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: A-382-003

Description: Shows a view of Paritutu Plug and the outlying Sugarloaf Islands. One of a group of sketches described by the artist's family as unfinished. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour sketch, 256 x 357 mm.

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-010

Description: Shows St Mary's Anglican Church at New Plymouth cf. A229/040; pencil study for this work Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 116 x 193 mm

Date: 1956

From: Messenger, Arthur Herbert, 1877-1962 :[Hand-drawn greeting cards, and book illustrations. 1952-1961].

Reference: A-365-009

Description: In foreground a group of Maori are watching three waka coming ashore on the beach below them. The pa on Mataora is on the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash 135 x 165 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-029

Description: Two views of New Plymouth, one above the other. The upper view looks past houses and gardens towards the sea, Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf rocks. The lower view is from the sea, looking at the settlement with houses, Marsland hill to the left, and a larger hill behind. The building on a rise on the far left may be St Mary's Church Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-007

Description: Looking south along the beach at Moturoa, Taranaki, with a canoe pulled up on the beach in the foreground, the palisades of Moturoa pa and Paritutu Rock and part of the Sugar Loaf rocks visible The artist's reference in the title to 'land Sugar Loaf' is to Paritutu rock, a sugarloaf-shaped rock on the shore, whereas the remaining sugarloaf-shaped rocks are out to sea. Other Titles - Moturoa landing Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 215 x 290 mm

Date: [ca 1890-1950]

From: Smytheman, V :Photographs from World War II and an album of New Zealand scenes

By: Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970

Reference: PAColl-0531-1

Description: Scenic views of New Zealand including a number of the glass houses and parks of Wanganui and New Plymouth. There are also an old photograph of W Stack's Hotel in Hastings with men and horses outside (in poor condition); a woman in what may be a 1930 Chrysler Plymouth with another snow away from the tyres; the gravestone of Julius von Haast; Queen's Wharf, Wellington showing a recently returned troop transport ship; an orchestra performing at the 1907 Christchurch exhibition; men of the No. 19 Platoon with a car at the summit of the Rimutakas; postcard from P B Davis to Mr A French showing a group of First World War soldiers with the message that they are about to leave for France; and six children at the base of a large Maori carving with a bell attached at Ohinemutu. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-053380 Quantity: 50 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1860

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-016-1

Description: Looking south along the beach towards Paritutu rock with the prow of a small ship visible behind a sandhill at the water's edge. The palisades of Paritutu Pa are on the left. The ship's rigging is covered with flags. A crowd on foot, horseback and in carriages and carts surround the ship. Strutt had left Taranaki for Australia in 1856. He may have drawn this view partly from imagination. The Taranaki was launched in 1860. His drawing 'Mototua and land, Sugar Loaf, Near New Plymouth, 1856 (reference number E-453-f-007) is a similar view, lacking the ship Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 75 x 125 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-058/059

Description: View looking out to sea and south west along the Taranaki coastline, with the Grey Institute, (several buildings clustered together on top of a hillock) and the Sugar Loaves and Paritutu in the background The Grey Institute (named after Sir George Grey) was a Wesleyan mission school and boys' boarding house at Ngamotu, close to Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf islands, west of New Plymouth city. Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 58 to 59 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 311 mm (partial double page spread)

Date: 1921

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-005

Description: View looking south along the bay towards Paritutu (a tall sugar-loaf shaped rock) with a building at its base Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil; also on the recto, bottom left, the date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 255 x 355 mm

Date: 1928

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: B-167-016

Description: Shows a view of Paritutu Plug with the foreshore in the foreground, and outlying rocks at the right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated]; Verso - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 460 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-028

Description: Looking north along the coastline towards Maunganui, with ships in the harbour, infantry and cavalry on the beach to the left, a Maori canoe and a rowboat in the foreground, the rowboat being hauled out to sea off the mudflats by sailors. Boxes and barrels are on the shore and military tents can be seen in the distance, with a redoubt on a foreland further off Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'The beach at Tauranga, 26 April 1864' in the Hocken Library, p. 31 of Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Williams also used his sketch as the basis for a larger watercolour 'Tauranga, New Zealand, 23 April 1864' in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on buff paper, 172 x 249 mm

Date: 1930 - 1939

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-743

Description: Includes pencil sketches of hills, trees and water in a harbour or lake; Paritutu, Egmont (one with the title "From Melville [?] Rd Jan 1930"), square stamped woodcuts with the words John L Moore with a leaf design; At Te Awanga Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Softbound dark grey volume, of 52 leaves, each 125 x 203 mm.

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-027

Description: View of two fenced graves in the foreground, a blockhouse and the Sugarloaf Islands at New Plymouth in the background. The graves are those of Captain William Lloyd, of 57th Regt, killed April 1864, and of Andrew Balfour Duncan, an Ensign Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 27 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 195 x 173 mm

Date: 1923

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-2336-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across at the New Plymouth breakwater and harbour with Paritutu Rock on the far right. Houses visible on a ridge on the far left and there is an area of industrial buildings, including chimney stacks in the centre of the image. A large two-storeyed [hotel?] building is seen in the middle distance above the port centre right. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Source of descriptive information - Date from other images taken in the Taranaki area, and from Moore's own numbering sequence Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - New Plymouth. Breakwater & Harbour. No. 290; Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - R P Moore's circular business stamp; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 121.0 cm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-006-1/2

Description: On both sides, a view of Paritutu and part of the Sugar Loaf Islands, from slightly different vantage points The view of Paritutu on the verso is probably half of a panoramic view of the coast at New Plymouth, with the other half being at A-462-005-2 Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on both sides of sketchbook page, 127 x 172 mm

Date: 1859

From: New Plymouth Public library :Photographs

By: Webster, Hartley, -1906

Reference: PA7-43-31

Description: View of Devon Street, New Plymouth, looking west from Liardet Street corner. A number of dwellings, shops and hotel [?] can be seen. Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf Islands are in the distance. Photograph taken by Hartley Webster ca 1859 and thought to be one of the earliest photographs of New Plymouth. Copy made by Gregory's Studios. Inscriptions: Mount recto - Gregory's Studios, Partridge's Buildings, 204 Queen Street Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print

Date: 1959 - 1960

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-735

Description: Includes pencil sketches, with colour notes, of Picton domain 21/7/59; Kaikoura [Ranges] July 29th 1959; lagoon near lighthouse Kaikoura; Kaikoura Aug 1959; [Lime?] gravel pit near Pier Hotel Kaikoura; Picton 18 Aug 59; [Tongaporutu?] tunnel from beach 15/3/60; "The Good Shepherd" [Tuia?] at mouth of Tongaporutu tunnel; Paritutu 17/March/60 5.30 pm - mosquitoes biting in broad daylight! - visit to New Plymouth while staying at Dawson Falls; karamu (design for woodcut). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Croxley Li-Flat artist's sketch block, spiralbound with 18 leaves, each 190 x 275 mm.