Places

Date: 1883

By: McIntyre, Peter, 1862-1922

Reference: B-040-009

Description: Cartoon on 1883 Otago Harbour Board election campaign by W. J. Larnach. As a stag at bay he repels dogs representing John White and others. He is standing in water, representing Otago Harbour and there is a canal indicated behind him. He has tossed a dog marked 'poor beggar', representing A. C. Begg, into the air in front of him. Behind him are two Chinese marked 'Beggites'. Supplement to New Zealand Punch? 'The Camp' was Larnach's own name for his home on Otago Peninsula, 'Larnach's Castle'. See TL3/1/1 18 June 1982 for further information. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 227 x 381 mm on sheet 280 x 440 mm

Date: 1908

By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937

Reference: C-109-033

Description: A set of vignettes, supposedly representing pictures shown at the Auckland Society of Arts. The central view, a caricature of a Goldie portrait, titled 'A study of Maori life. A noble specimen of a fast vanishing race' shows an elderly Maori woman in pain and having a front tooth pulled out with a piece of cord. From top left the other views include 'Where is my boy tonight', a portrait of a seated middle-aged woman; 'The roadless North', a man being thrown from his horse; 'Get away little fly', a dog unable to reach a fly on the end of its nose; 'The curly-headed coon', an absent-minded professor smoking a pipe; 'The Pie-oneer's story - I've a sick wife and 19 children at home', showing a man receiving charity in the shape of a hot pie; 'Fish oh!', a Chinese fishmonger with a basket of stinking fish; 'The father of the Pah' showing an elderly Maori man; 'A cold beauty' showing a young woman; 'The white cow', showing a girl fleeing from a cow tied by its tail to a tree; 'Kiss me' showing a young woman, her eyes closed and lips pursed; 'Twenty-six by twenty' showing a young couple, the woman seated on the man's knee; 'Ph tuck me in my little bed' showing an elderly Maori woman asleep; 'The coming of the fleet' showing Maori canoes as steamships with American flags; 'A farm scene' showing a man dragging two reluctant horses; 'Cheap - an art patron' showing a kiwi and a man in bowler hat viewing pictures on the wall and placing pennies in a bowl extended by the hand of one portrait. Published in the Auckland Weekly on 21 May 1908, supplement p.5 with the title 'Our comic artist's impressions of the Auckland Society of Arts annual exhibition' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - T. L. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 363 x 520 mm