Places

Date: 1864

By: Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: A-236-018

Description: View from a high point looking down over the settlement of Auckland in the distance. There are sheep in the right foreground near a cabbage tree. The steeples of St Paul's (on the left) and St Barnabas (on the right) along with the roofs of houses can be seen. Devonport with Mount Victoria and North Head and Rangitoto Island are in the distance across Waitemata Harbour Attribution on stylistic grounds. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and chinese white 123 x 337mm Processing information: Originally mounted with A-236-017 and A-236-019. Titles, formerly inscribed on the verso of the mount in the hand of E. A. Williams, have been retained in a separate folder with the three works.

Date: 1877

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Young, Jocelyn, 1909-2002

Reference: C-126-001

Description: The edge of Auckland Domain and its fences in the foreground, ringed with young trees. Houses in the middle distance and a train at the water's edge to the left. Three yachts and a small ship on the Waitemata Harbour and Devonport with houses along the waterfront, North Head and Rangitoto across the water. Exhibited in Alfred Sharpe, touring to Auckland City Art Gallery, Museum of New Zealand and Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 1993. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983 cf B-051-005, a lithograph based on a similar view from the New Zealand Observer and Free Lance of 20 February 1886, p. 20. See also TL3/1/1 4 November 1986. The lithograph is based on a pen and ink drawing. Other Titles - The picnic ground, Auckland Domain, 1877 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A. Sharpe. 1877. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 420 x 630 mm Provenance: Shown at the Auckland Society of Artists' fourth biennial (and final) exhibition in November 1877 with the title The Picnic Ground, Auckland Domain. Given to Oliver Mays by the artist, passing by family descent to Mays' granddaughter, Jocelyn Young. A note on the verso, printed in black felt-tip pen explains: "This painting was given to my grandfather Oliver Mays by A. Sharpe who used to go to visit every Sunday for dinner. My grandfather was able to talk the deaf and dumb language by fingers. [Sharpe was profoundly deaf]. The old house on the Devonport waterfront was lived in by us when my late husband A. R. D. Fairburn was alive. Jocelyn (Mays-Fairburn) Young."

Date: 1 Jan 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000257-G

Description: View taken from the Auckland Domain, site of the Auckland Exhibition (1913-1914). Houses in Parnell can be seen in the middle foreground. Mount Victoria and North Head, Devonport can be seen across the Waitemata Harbour with Rangitoto Island in the far distance. Photograph taken by William Archer Price (Price Photographic Company), 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom centre - Auckland Harbour from Exhibition No 3061. Photo PPCo 1.1.14. Relationship complexity - A similar view, taken from the same vantage point on the same day, is at 1/2-000777-G Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1 Jan 1914

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000777-G

Description: View taken from the Auckland Domain, site of the Auckland Exhibition (1913-1914). Houses in Parnell can be seen in the middle foreground. Mount Victoria, Devonport and Northcote can be seen across the Waitemata Harbour. On the lefthand side are the Auckland wharves and outer city area. Photograph taken by William Archer Price (Price Photographic Company), 1914 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Auckland Harbour from Exhibition. No 3056. Photo P.P.Co. 1.1.14. Relationship complexity - Another view, taken from the same vantage point, on the same day, is at 1/2-000257-G Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: Feb 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34895-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: Feb 1954

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-34894-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate