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Date: 1900 - 1930

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-367-013

Description: Shows the view from Bluff Hill looking down south along the waterfront, with a garden in the foreground and buildings on the land at the right. Attributed to Emily Lysaght because of her depiction of Napier in B-156-020. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 127 x 180 mm.

Date: 1903

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Owen, H G, active 1903

Reference: E-567-f-008

Description: Shows a view looking out at the island in Island Bay, and to Baring Head beyond in the left distance. Extended Title - From the Countess of Ranfurly's album of watercolours, 1903. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 144 x 213 mm, mounted in page 243 x 315 mm.

Date: 1902

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-014

Description: Shows a view across to Rangitoto Island, across tussock grass on the near shore. In the left foreground is a clump of a low-growing plant with red leaves or flowers. Other Titles - March Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 230 mm.

Date: 1900

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-003

Description: Shows a view of a long curved beach with two low offshore rocks at the right. On the left are tussock covered sand dunes, and two areas of rocky shore reaching into the sea on an otherwise sandy shore. There are two figures in the left foreground. Other Titles - March Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 164 x 248 mm.

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: A-090-039

Description: View from the water (or a rocky outcrop in the water) looking back towards the beach with houses, cars parked at the edge of beach, rowing boats at water's edge, seagulls on rocks in the foreground Title from verso Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 290 x 392 mm

Date: 12 October 1929

By: Perkins, Christopher Edward, 1891-1968

Reference: A-058-006

Description: Shows Worser Bay Boat Club building on the left, a yacht drawn up on the sand, women throwing a ball, three men watching them and people sunbathing Exhibited in 'ART Notes: 20th century artists' papers and sketches from the Turnbull Library' exhibition curated by Jill Trevelyan, in the Turnbull Room, National Library Gallery, 27 November 1999 - 6 February 2000. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 270 x 380 mm

Date: 1925

By: Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951

Reference: G-566

Description: View of Napier from Bluff Hill looking north and showing estuaries and buildings on a spit of land, before the 1931 earthquake. The port area is also shown, with a ship at the wharf. Most of the land shown under water to the left of the spit was raised in the earthquake of 1931 Other Titles - Westshore Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Hipkins/25; Verso - title Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 220 x 260 mm

Date: 1916

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-157-012

Description: A view from the Wellington side of the harbour entrance, possibly Breaker Bay, with a woman with a parasol standing on the beach. In the distance is Pencarrow Head with the lighthouse prominent at the top of the cliffs. A ship and a yacht are passing through the heads and Barrett's Reef is visible Other Titles - Lighthouse Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 175 x 254 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

By: Stoddart, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934

Reference: B-038-019

Description: Shows curved beach with cottage to the left, and purple hills in the distance. Dated [191-?] in McKearney's Auction, but considered by Julie King, lecturer University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, as likely to be earlier, as style is not as mature and exuberant as her better known works. Possibly just a sketch, however. Inscriptions: Unsigned, untitled and undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 240 x 325 mm.

Date: 1902

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-012

Description: Shows a view along a beach on a windy day, the waves choppy and the leaves on the foreground tussock leaning landward. Two low-growing shore plants have red leaves or flowers. In the distance, part of Rangitoto Island can be seen at the right, for the most part shrouded in cloud. Other Titles - March Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 230 mm (top corners rounded).

Date: 1902

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-013

Description: Shows a view loking south along a beach, with the foreshore at the right, and Rangitoto Island across the sea at the left. A figure walks along the beach which is strewn with driftwood at high tide level, and two dinghies lie on the sand. There is a sailboat in the middle distance. Accompanying caption slip notes that the location is now known as Campbells Bay. Other Titles - March Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 157 x 240 mm.

Date: 1903

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Owen, R H, active 1901-1903

Reference: E-567-f-010

Description: Shows a general view of the St Clair Beach at Dunedin, looking southwest towards cliffs and promontories further along the coast. Extended Title - From the Countess of Ranfurly's album of watercolours, 1903. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 220 mm, mounted in page 243 x 315 mm.

Date: 1918

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: A-152-012

Description: A yacht on its side, close to shore, Evans Bay, with children on the beach in the foreground Rough sketch on back Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 127 x 180 mm

Date: 1920 - 1925

From: Baker, William George, 1864-1929 :[Sketchbook of views mostly of the Wellington region and South Island. 1920-1925].

Reference: E-628-003

Description: Shows a view along the beach at Titahi Bay looking towards the headland at the north, several figures dotted along the beach, and a small stream crossing the foreground from the right. Extended Title - From his [Sketchbook of views of the Wellington region and South Island. 1920-1925 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and titled] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 120 x 147 mm.

Date: 1903

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Hill, Mabel, 1872-1956

Reference: E-567-f-007

Description: Shows a view of a bay within Otago Harbour with a sandy stretch of shore in the foreground, extending along to the right. The view is taken from just north of the centre of Portobello village. It looks north across Latham Bay. The land in the middle distance on the left is Quarantine Island. The land in the foreground and on the right is the Portobello Peninsula. In the distance are the hills above Port Chalmers Extended Title - From the Countess of Ranfurly's album of watercolours, 1903. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 178 mm, mounted in page 243 x 315 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1904

By: Nairn, James McLachlan, 1859-1904

Reference: A-253-033

Description: Beach at Paraparaumu or Waikanae with Kapiti in the distance. Bathers in foreground Attribution to Nairn on stylistic grounds Inscriptions: Backing board verso - "(finished pictures) (for sale or for gifts)" [backing board removed. Inscription in an unknown hand] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card 176 x 253 mm

Date: 1910

By: King, Isabella Cockburn, 1861?-1927; White, Mary Truby, 1904-2002

Reference: A-032-021

Description: View of Puketeraki Beach with Karitane Peninsula in the background. A house is on the right against the skyline; another amidst bush going down to the beach is in in the centre. Inscriptions: Verso - title. Also Bella C King, wife of Truby King along with references to file numbers and correspondence from Mary White. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 110 x 255 mm

Date: 1901

From: Artist unknown :[Seventeen watercolours by a passenger on the SS Kaikoura. ca 1900]

Reference: A-428-010

Description: Shows a group of trees, probably pohutukawa, on the rocky edge of a foreground outcrop, with hills beyond. Accompanying caption slip (written in the late 1900s?) says: "Lake Beach is at the northern end of Takapuna Beach, near the camping ground. The flow of basalt which issued from L. Pupuke can be seen and today is known as the "Black Reef"". Other Titles - March Inscriptions: (On accompanying caption card): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 157 x 227 mm.