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Artist unknown :Ateamuri. [1890s]

Date: 1890 - 1910

By: Martin, Josiah, 1843-1916; Hewitt, E (Miss), active 1980

Reference: G-440-2

Description: View downstream to a bridge with the rocky cone Pohaturoa in the background. May be based on a photograph by Josiah Martin entitled Pohaturoa Rock, Atiamuri, negative 82172 1/2, taken from an identical spot. Other Titles - Atiamuri Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 262 x 398 mm Provenance: Donation: Misses E. R. and E. I. Hewitt, Rongotai, Wellington, December 1980

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Holder album 1

Date: [Between 1863 and 1872]

From: Holder, Miss: Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-f-030

Description: Album of undated photographs taken by Daniel Louis Mundy, owned by `Miss Holder' (her name printed facing page 1) Scenes are all of the North Island, in particular Bay of Islands, Thames, Rotorua, Taupo, Waikato and Napier. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black leather-bound album entitled `New Zealand views'; 30.5 x 42.0 cm

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Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948 :[Buildings and hills - Pohaturoa Rock with the Atiam...

Date: 1882

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :Sketches by A. L. Haylock, 1882.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-1-012

Description: Shows Atiamuri, with several houses in the foreground, the river and bridge and Pohaturoa Rock towering over the scene in the background Extended Title - from Sketches by A L Haylock, 1882. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 119 x 192 mm.

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Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :[Pohaturoa near Atiamuri. 1875?]

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-015

Description: Shows rocky outcrop Pohaturoa near Atiamuri with the Waikato River between steep cliffs. In the foreground are three houses and carriage drawn by four horses on a road leading from a bridge across the river on the right. Probably the original for the engraving published in New Zealand: graphic and descriptive... London: Sampson Low,... 1877 pg 19. Inscribed with the title "Pohaturoa". The accompanying text reads "Pohaturoa, or the Great Rock...which rises 650 feet abruptly from the plain in the banks of the Waikato near Niho-o-te Keore, is a celebrated pa of the Ngatiraukawa tribe." A very similar watercolour of the same scene with minor foreground differences with the title "Pohuturoa near Atiamuri, 1875" was sold at McArthur's Auction, 10 May 1985, Lot 28. The Library has a copy in its photo files. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature in brush point Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour on paper, 300 x 506 mm

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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Atiamuri, Pohaturoa [Rock. 1860s or early 1870s?]

Date: 1875 - 1880

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-063

Description: Shows several whare in centre foreground, a bridge at right, and the impressive Pohaturoa Rock in centre background. Possibly the original for the wood engraving 'Pohaturoa' by C. D. Barraud published in his New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) p. 19. The accompanying text reads "Pohatura, or the Great Rock ... which rises 650 feet abruptly from the plain on the banks of the Waikato near Niho-o-te Kiore, is a celebrated pa of the Ngatiraukawa tribe". Date uncertain; may be earlier or later than indicated. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 340 mm.

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