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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

Date: 1893

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

Reference: E-373-039

Description: Looking across the river towards a small settlement, possibly at Pipiriki, with two canoes drawn up at the water's edge, tree ferns, two buildings and taller trees with high hills behind Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

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: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-048-047

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with the trunk of a large tree to the left, a crouching Maori figure, a raupo hut and a tree fern Title from pencil inscription; date on verso. Almost identical to A-048-048 (untitled). Copy of lithograph by Cuthbert Clarke after William Swainson (See A4/7) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 252 x 175 mm

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-189-006

Description: A study of a tall fern tree Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 160 x 129 mm4.7 ins

Date: [1880s-1890s?]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA1-o-111

Description: Scenic views, mostly of New Zealand, some of Australia, and a few taken in Scotland. Photographs mostly taken by Frank Arnold Coxhead; two of those taken in Scotland were by George Washington Wilson (G.W.W.). The album also contains a large number of coloured postcards, coloured reproductions of paintings, and coloured scraps. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark green cover, with black spine and corners, 27 x 38.5 cm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-009-1

Description: Shows track into valley, with a tall tree fern on the right Extended Title - In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook. No. 8. p. 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 210 x 175 mm

Date: 1845

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-008

Description: The thatched roof and side wall of a hut, a tree fern rising above it and a toitoi to the right. The hut is set amongst hills, with fishing nets drying in front of it and the smoke from a fire in the distance. The hut appears to be in the hills behind Akaroa, not at the waterfront. Watermarked: Hudelist with a coat of arms Other Titles - The cottage of the former soldier colonist at Akaroa, New Zealand [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 63 x 59 mm (image); 80 x 74 mm (plate mark); on sheet 324 x 495 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Morris, John Richard, 1854-1919

Reference: PA1-o-520

Description: Album of tourist views of New Zealand and the sub-Antarctic Islands, chiefly taken by John Richard Morris, Jnr, circa 1890s. Places and subjects listed above where identified. The Sub-Antarctic Island views are all of native flora and fauna of the different islands, listed on the images as mollymawks, albatrosses, sea lions, crested penguins and erect-crested penguins On page 32 there is a view of the SS Knight Templar leaving Lyttelton on February 17, 1900, taking about 260 soldiers and 300 horses of the 3rd Contingent "the New Zealand Roughriders" to Durban, en route to fight in the South African War. The wharf is crowded with people seeing the ship off, soldiers lined up alongside the ship, and bunting flying on two ships nearby. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 24.5 x 32.5 cm

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: [1870s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-080

Description: Album with reproductions of paintings and lithographs of varying subjects, including religious themes and pictures of animals. These pictures are interspersed with photographs, including views of Turkey, Greece, Ireland, and New Zealand. Views in New Zealand are chiefly in Wellington, with some in Taranaki. Several images show views in Cuba Street, Wellington, including the business premises of Gordon Baillie, photographer, with the cottage of Mr Gregg next door; also the Nags Head Hotel, looking towards Wellington Harbour. The album is signed inside the front cover `W H Field. 1870' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, gold marking across corners and spine, raised bands on spine, 31.0 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-043

Description: A red clay road on a steep hillside through dense bush, including tree ferns. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039-a

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1880s]

By: Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-532

Description: Views of New Zealand taken by E Wheeler & Son, circa 1870s to 1880s Most of the views are identified, either on the photograph itself, or in hand-written captions below; places shown are listed above. One image has caption "Flax cutting" on the photograph which shows a man standing be a group of cabbage trees, with a house? or possibly a mill with a water wheel in the background behind the trees, while the hand-written caption reads "Valley scene, Hokianga". Other Titles - New Zealand views Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with green cover (damaged), entitled "New Zealand Views" in gold lettering; 25.5 x 32.5 cm

Date: 1863

By: Hanhart, Michael, active 1870-1882

Reference: A-104-005

Description: A whare to the right, with four Maori outside, two men tending to a small fire, a couple reclining by the door of the whare with a dog. There are tall tree ferns beyond the whare. The river winds past and through bush towards the sea in the background Extended Title - From Carey, G. J. Narrative of the late war in New Zealand by Lieut. Col. Carey. London, R. Bentley, 1863. Frontispiece Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 88 x 162 mm

Date: [Circa 1880s]

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm); Lomer, Albert, active 1862-1900; Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)

Reference: PA1-q-262

Description: Album of Australian photographs of Brisbane and Tasmania, and views of a range of sites in New Zealand, taken by various photographers circa 1880s. Names and places identified in the album are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine; 30.5 x 25.0 cm

Date: 1887 - 1890

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950 :[Sketchbook] Sissie Hogkins 1887

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-035-q-2-023

Description: A view across a lake with sheer mountains to the right. Trees, including a tree fern are in the foreground. The sky is coloured with sunset or sunrise Possibly partially painted by William Mathew Hodgkins, teaching painting to his daughter Isabel. The detailing of the mountains appears to be in his style. The work is given a pencilled arched top, also characteristic of the work of W M Hodgkins Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 178 x 254 mm

Date: 1859

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-024

Description: A Maori man seated at the foot of a tree fern in a forest. There is a food storage platform to the right Probably copied from a very similar drawing by William Swainson, Edith Halcombe's father. The artist would have been only 15 at the time this was drawn and is known to have copied her father's work when young. Her preliminary study for this drawing [Tree fern], ref. no. A-188-021-1 is annotated 'Copied from Papas' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated: E S Swainson March 1859 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black conte crayon on tinted paper 202 x 136 mm

Date: [Circa 1870s-1880s]

From: Sarney, H F (Mr), fl 1959 :Photograph albums of New Zealand scenes

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-f-065

Description: Album of landscapes taken by various photographers including Wheeler & Sons and the Burton Brothers, circa 1870s and 1880s. All the views are of New Zealand except the last sequence (p 33-37) showing Rio de Janeiro. Of particular interest are views of a wool wagon drawn by oxen, crossing a ford; a series showing an unidentified curved viaduct under construction (p 28-32); and a number showing a farm run by J F L Jetter at Te Puke when the land was partially cleared, with cattle grazing in paddocks, and Mr Jetter standing by a horse in a paddock in front of his home. Many of the images show uncleared land, with a deep ravine filled with native bush and tree ferns, and a stream running through (p 24-27). Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green leather cover with embossed diamond shape pattern, bordered with gold; 32 x 38 cm

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-010

Description: The Hutt river in the distance with tree ferns Copy of pencil drawing (92 x 132 mm) copied by Mary Marshall from original by W. Swainson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm