Places

Date: 1973 - 1892

From: [Various artists] :Three panoramas. Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints, 1973.

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968

Reference: D-001-014

Description: In the left foreground, a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the the background Issued with descriptive text sheet. First published as a coloured chromolithograph in the Christmas issue of the Weekly graphic, 1892 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 262 x 748 mm on sheet 427 x 890 mm

By: Eichelbaum, Clara Vera, 1885-1953

Reference: E-278-q-093

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour depicting a view of Kapiti Island as seen from inside the front gate of a property on the beach front at Paekakariki. A flax bush in flower is to the right of the gate. Inscriptions: Recto - centre - Printed inside: ... from Mr & Mrs A E Currie, 48 Weld Street, Wadestown, Wellington Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo-lithograph, 124 x 90 mm on folded card

Date: 1849 - 1855

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Taranaki Museum; New Plymouth Public Library

Reference: A-284-031/035

Description: Show Taranaki scenes: Interior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Exterior of George Curtis' house, Omata; Alpha flourmill, Huatoki Valley and Victoria Road from Marsland Hill, New Plymouth; Henui (Weekstown) from the coastal dunes; Unidentified New Plymouth outskirts (possibly now Tukapa St / Westown). Attribution based on style. George Curtis arrived in New Plymouth in 1849 on the 'Pekin'. "As soon as a raupo house could be erected by the Maoris at Omata, George Curtis and his family went to live on his farm". (NZ Biogs, 1967, vol. 1, p. 53). Supplied titles. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated.; Recto - beneath image - [Titles as supplied by donor]. Quantity: 5 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, black and white, varying sizes. Provenance: Original drawings in New Plymouth Public Library tipped into a book, until 1992, then transferred to Taranaki Museum.

Date: 1844 - 1890

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Keesing, G S (Mr), active 1960s

Reference: D-001-009-a

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha on 11 May 1844. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. This copy lacks a printed inscription on the recto of copy D-001-009 "Presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in two tints 220 x 840 mm on sheet 285 x 890 mm Provenance: Donation: G S Keesing

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-009

Description: Looking across a broad rivermouth, with hills in the background. Two tents in the foreground on the bank of the river, with flax bushes. One man (possibly Walter Mantell) stands by a tent and a group three men are seated together to the right. Two distant birds in the sky over a bluff to the right mark the spot from which a previous view, no. 8, was drawn. See also: E-281-010 Descriptive note Other Titles - Kakanui Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 9. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash in two colours, 60 x 200 mm

Date: 1905 - 1920

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-071-006

Description: A raupo whare on the left, by a flax-fringed spit of land, a Maori man standing outside, a small boat in the left foreground, the lake and a low island beyond. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title and signature in pencil]; Recto - at the base of the paper: Dry point [in pencil] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching (dry point) 66 x 95 mm (platemark) on sheet 202 x 151 mm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-055

Description: A coastal scene with a beach viewed through flax bushes and cabbage trees. A house on the right, hills in the distance. The album seems to have been labelled some time after some watercolours were painted. This view does not appear to show Masterton. It is located in the album amidst view of Peel Forest, and may show the Timaru area Other Titles - [Coastal scene, South Canterbury?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1844 - 1890 - 1969

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Star Steam Printing Company; Brett, Henry, 1843-1927; Heritage Fine Prints; Wilson & Horton (Firm)

Reference: D-001-023

Description: Extensive view of a plain with volcanic cones in the background, including Mount Hobson and Mount Eden, showing a feast given by Waikato Chiefs in 1844, attended by about 4000 Maori and many Pakeha. A 400 yard-long shed is in the background and Governor Fitzroy is shown visiting the scene with many other Pakeha. Features and incidents are numbered and described below the work. A haka is being performed on the right for Fitzroy, Sheppard (the colonial Treasurer) and William Swainson (the Attorney General). Tribal groups are named as Ngatihaua, Ngatikoroki, Ngatimahuta, Ngatiwhatua, Ngatikoura and Ngatiruru and the plain is covered with large numbers of people, the majority Maori. A 1969 photomechanical reproduction, taken from a lithograph presented with Brett's Almanac for 1890, which is derived from an earlier lithograph published by Samuel Augustus Tegg in 1845, which in turn is after an original watercolour of the event made in 1844 by J. J. Merrett in the Hocken Library. Print no 142 of an edition of 1000 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph of tinted lithograph in two colours 205 x 794 mm (image) on sheet 293 x 876 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: [ca 1950s]

Reference: PAColl-7022

Description: Views of the beach at Pukerua Bay with maintenance to prevent erosion. Also views of a house built on the beach including one of the owners on the verandah. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-099111 to 099118 Quantity: 8 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film ¼ plate negatives

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-006

Description: Part of Mike Illingworth's garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1847

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-025-4

Description: The beach at Omata with an interesting rock formation of rounded lumps on a base, a human figure at the right giving it scale. The view looks south and there is a flax plant to the left One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-019

Description: Four men close to or sheltering under limestone caves in a low hillside. Two flax bushes on top of the hill. A nearer group of rock shelters is marked A to indicate Mantell's and Wills' sleeping place; the more distance shelters are marked B to indicate the other men's sleeping places Notes: A. Mantell's & my sleeping place. B. The men's. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 5B; Recto - beneath image - title and indicative notes re locations Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 190 x 230 mm

Date: 1880s

From: Main, William :Two photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-638

Description: Views of farmland, homesteads, mountains, forest, and people associated with Merrivale, Blackmount, and other stations in Southland. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1892

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-015

Description: A fenced road with native bush on both sides, including flax and cabbage trees. A stream (or another road?) passes underneath it (or joins it?) from the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 130 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1868

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Spencer, Charles, 1854-1933

Reference: PA1-o-094

Description: Views of New Zealand chiefly taken by Daniel Mundy circa 1868, with some taken by Charles S Spencer. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Decorated tan coloured cover "Scraps", 25.5 x 33 cm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull Library donation slip on front page reads: "Scrapbook of old photos collected by Mr Mundy about 1868."

Date: 1917

From: [Postcard album of cards collected by Joye Taylor. ca 1905-1915].

By: Muir & Moodie (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-POSTCARD-Vol-4-011-2

Description: Shows a photograph of an assemblage of buildings on the water's edge at Foxton, probably on a river bank. The border resembles a wooden frame with decorative metal scrolls at the corners. The message on the verso reads: "My darling Tamate, This is one of the flax mills (not the one Charley is connected with). Flax is a great industry here and these parts. No wonder, for hemp is sold for a high price in England. I hope the fowls are well looked after. Be good dear" Dated from postal rubber date stamp on verso. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on postcard.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, black and white, 88 x 137 mm

Date: 1880 - 1891

By: May, Powell, active 1880s

Reference: B-064-010

Description: View from a low hill, looking east along a valley towards the sea. Cabbage trees, flax and toitoi in the foreground, a barn and other buildings with a track, a bullock-team hauling a cart with other cattle. In the middle distance, a row of young poplar trees along a fence, a cottage, the homestead and other buildings in the distance near the sea. Shows Whangaehu station, ca 60 km South east of Waipukurau, owned by A.H.Price 1880-1891. Other Titles - Whangaehu Station Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Powell May from an oil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with Chinese white 250 x 343 mm Provenance: Purchase: Frances Edwards Ltd, London, November 1966, for #55.

Date: 1894

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-169-019

Description: Cattle grazing on a plain, with haystacks and farm buildings in the background. Flax grows on the flat land. There are hills to the left and in the distance Inscriptions: On separate label, attached below work: title in pencil in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 58 x 242 mm

Date: [1900s-1910s?]

From: Mercer, Robert, fl 1964 :Photographs and albums of Maori, New Zealand views, and illustrations

Reference: PA1-o-339

Description: Album of photographs taken by unidentified photographers, taken in central North Island, and Otago and Southland regions, circa 1900s and 1910s. Some of the images are related to railways, including North Island scenes of the first passenger trip on 14th February 1909, during which the train stopped on the Raurimu Spiral because of a lack of engine power to haul it; the railway station at Longburn; a locomotive owned by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company; various engines including one image showing a J Class locomotive and an A Class locomotive with the caption "Note the difference in 20 years". South Island trains are shown in the Catlins District, including the construction of the Catlins River Railway, the Houipapa Quarry on the Catlins River Extension, loading wagons in the Balclutha ballast pit, the viaduct across the Catlins River at Houipapa, the Clutha Railway Bridge, and the Houipapa terminus on the Catlins River Railway. The North Island scenic views include the areas around Lake Rotorua, the Government Sanatorium at Rotorua, Sophia's Whare, a group of Maori boys diving for pennies, Whakarewarewa, Okere and Ohakune. Scenic views in the South Island are mostly around Dunedin (including Telford's country house in the Balclutha District), Clutha River, Balclutha, and the Catlins, including flax swamps and flax mills in the Catlins District. Many of the images are taken with an emphasis on atmosphere, includingGathering storm", "Beside the winding river", "Outward bound", "A heavy pull" and "A calm day". Inscriptions: Album page - "Thus we remember many a sunny hour with bike and camera"-Inside back cover Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with very dark blue cover, black leather corners and spine; 22 x 29 cm