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Date: ca 1860s-1890s

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

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1870 - 1872

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-040-007

Description: Shows a distant view of William Fox's homestead, Westoe, on the Rangitikei River flat. A snow-covered Mount Ruapehu is seen in the distance. In the bottom-left foreground is a white-bearded man on a horse, with a small dog; this is possibly Fox himself, though he is not identified. He later built a second home, also called Westoe, on a higher terrace (about where the horseman is seen), away from the flood plains Other Titles - Lower Westoe Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / 1870[?] [in brushpoint] See also Fox's own painting of the original homestead, at WC-054 (digitised) Fox was born in the village of Westoe in Durham, England. His second homestead, called Westoe, was completed in 1874 The backing board from the painting reveals that it was at one time owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (date unspecified), and was later de-accessioned (also unspecified). The accession number was recorded as -/1/921 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 485 x 785 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane Fine and Applied Art auction, Wellington, 1 July 2015; lot 45. Prior to purchase, belonging to a private collection, purchased at Sale, Dunbar Sloane Ltd., 12 June 1990; lot 6 (from catalogue)

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951

Reference: B-031-001

Description: Wide stretch of the Hutt river with two boats, a dog on the shore in the right foreground and Baron Alzdorf's homestead and farm with fence and tall trees in the left background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 139 x 293 mm

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-017

Description: A naive watercolour of the Deans brothers' farmhouse and outbuildings, viewed from across the "Avon or Shakspear River", with horses, cows and sheep in the foreground, a log bridge, a man (presumably one of the Deans brothers) with a dog under a tree. The house is red, with a second storey with dormer window, a rain barrel below the downpipe from the roof. The outbuildings to the right of the house appear to be thatched stables, are open at the front and shelter a horse and three carts. Trees are roughly indicated behind the house. On the verso are holograph notes about Banks' Peninsula, copied from Duppa, Daniels [?] and Tyrell and from Captain [William Mein] Smith about Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and its merits for settlement versus those of Akaroa. Dating: William Deans was drowned in 1851, a fact that is not mentioned here, suggesting, along with the general tone of the notes, that this drawing may have been completed before then, although the two-storied building on the site was not completed until 1856. Other material from the same source was produced about 1850 or 1851. William Mein Smith's report was completed about 1843. The page has been removed from a notebook. The author of the notes (and artist) appears to be somebody associated with the Canterbury Association. The first two-storied house at Deans' property was built in 1856, when Jane Deans built a larger house on the site in preparation for the arrival of her brother and his family. The house shown here may be the 1856 north-east section, the earliest part of modern Riccarton House. Other sections were added in 1874 and 1900, resulting in a much larger building. One possible artist is John Henry Cridland, whose other drawings from the same source are quite naive. However another drawing by him of the Deans' property (neg MNZ 1215 1/4 - 'Riccarton, November 1850' - Hocken Library) is very different in style from this one. Identification: The building shown appears to be a roughly-drawn version of the first two-storied house on the site, completed in 1856. Other drawings of the same building appear as Plate 5 and Plate 14 (the latter by Robert Park) in Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains. The Deans family of Riccarton and Homebush by John Deans (Christchurch, 1964). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink as above, with "only 50 Godley" in pencil in another hand]; Recto - centre right - [in river, in pencil]: Avon or Shakspear River.; Verso - [in ink, page covered in text] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watecolour on laid paper 310 x 198 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to a volume of The New Zealand Journal, ca 1852, from Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection. Prior to acquisition by Alexander Turnbull the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-058

Description: Shows single-storey homestead with verandah in left foreground, with lake and mountains in background. In right foreground, a man with arm raised directs his dogs to round up stock (possibly cattle rather than sheep, but indistinct). There is some fencing across the field between dwelling and stock. Stitched to leaf tipped into sketchbook. E-501-f-059 on verso. Henry Taylor was drowned in the Teremakau River in 1867. This picture may therefore predate 1867. Other Titles - Lake Sheppard Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - (In ink): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Monotone watercolour, 185 x 266 mm.

Date: 1845 - 1855

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-008

Description: A thatched-roofed house with chimneys at both ends and an outhouse on the left, in a landscape cleared of trees in the foreground and with bush beyond the house. The station of Hugh Morrison (or Morison), initially called Hakeke, later Glenmorven, near the present site of Martinborough. The farmer, his wife and a dog are in front of the house. Other Titles - Morison Morison's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white on prepared grey paper, 120 x 190 mm (image) on sheet 171 x 235 mm

Date: 1883

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-152-003

Description: Shows a view of a single storey wooden house with a front verandah, in a section bounded by hedges and a front white picket fence. The property is planted with trees and shrubs with a front lawn. A boy tosses a ball on the front lawn. A woman stands holding an infant on the driveway in front of the house, to greet two women who have descended from a horsedrawn buggy at the right, and have passed through the front gate to approach the house up the driveway. Another buggy is parked in the centre foreground, with no horses attached. In the right foreground are two cows, and a dog runs in from the far right. Another dog watches, lying on the roadway beside the gate. In an adjoining field at the far left, a man on horseback approaches the hedged property. Behind the house, within the hedge, is a garden with rows of plants, probably vegetables. In the background is a low hill with three more white buildings on it, and further hills rise in the distance. The name "Mr Price" is inscribed on the backing board. The Southland location is assumed from the fact that Aubrey painted in Southland and Otago in the 1870s and early 1880s. The most prominent farmer in the district was John Morgan Price on Hawthorn Farm at Athol; a comparison with photographs of the farm buildings in Trevor Price's "Morgan Price & family : story of John Morgan Price ... (Auckland, 1991), gives no conclusive evidence that the homestead in the painting is on that farm. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 560 mm.