Places

Date: 1858

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Forrest, Isabel K, active 1969; Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-065

Description: View along Invercargill's main street showing a number of houses and businesses. The earliest known view of Invercargill Between 1969, the time of acquisition by the Library, and 2010, attributed to W B D Mantell, based on handwriting, style of drawing and the fact that Mantell worked with Douglas, and was involved in the early settlement of Invercargill. However Mantell was in England in 1858, the date of this drawing. The drawing was earlier owned by Gerhard Mueller, who arrived in New Zealand in 1859, the year after this drawing was made. The `Pearson' whose house is drawn is W H Pearson, Commissioner of Lands, 1857-1884. `Grief' the butcher was J M Grieve. The Albion Hotel was also known as Linds Accommodation House. Other Titles - Douglas, Charles Edward Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pen and ink. Along top, identifications of buildings include Whites store, Collins store, Collins Goods, Grief Butcher, Pearsons House, Butchershop, Royal Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) loose in group of works by Charles Edward Douglas. Physical Description: Ink on brown paper, 150 x 210 mm.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-078

Description: Shows the interior of Te Punaomara Pa, Waitaki River, with food storage platforms, a whare, cooking pots on a fire, a blanket hung up to dry. A Maori woman is seated on the ground, wrapped in a blanket, and a man is seated in the distance. To the left is a European man drawing in his sketchbook (probably Mantell's travelling companion and fellow-surveyor, Alfred Wills), while the artist's own boots and pack are in the centre foreground. A dog is also seated to the right. Te Punaomara was a pa on the Waitaki River at the crossing place Other Titles - Te Punaomara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 190 x 229 mm

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-040

Description: A view of The Bricks, the landing place on the Avon River by Barbadoes Street. Shows the river bank, a house close to the water and a second smaller house further back. On the right is a Maori man with a taiaha Other Titles - The Bricks Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - City of Christchurch Nov 14 1849 [in faint pencil]. On the reverse are various notes including carefully-written Maori names in another hand, one being Hoani Paratene followed by a note in Mantell's hand 'by Topi & Taiaroa. Dec. 17 Monday' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 61 x 109 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-044-2

Description: The cottage of missionary Johannes Riemenschneider with bush behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 98 x 172 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-133

Description: View from the west shore of Port Levy looking across the Harbour to the settlement with a small number of houses at the foot of a steep hill. A low-lying island is close to the shore in front of the settlement Between ca early 1970s and 2007 this view was mis-identified by the Library as showing Lyttelton Other Titles - Port Levy Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - P Levy [in pencil]; also upside-down at top of page in ink: Sept 14 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-004/005

Description: Shows a two lines of distant trees near the foothills; a closer line of trees, including cabbage trees, and a small Maori shelter near water in the foreground Other Titles - Arowhenua Other Titles - Te Waiteruati Inscriptions: Recto - Kohana - Patewhatia; Recto - beneath image - Te Waituere Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (on double page). Physical Description: Pencil, 60 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1852

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

Reference: A-049-027

Description: A raupo-roofed dwelling with ridge-pole and barge boards and a large food storage platform outside it. The palisades of a pa beyond the house and a squatting figure below the platform. Hills in the background Title from verso Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 47 x 75 mm Transfers: Transferred from Mantell family papers (MS Papers 0083-343, letter to Gideon Mantell, Dunedin, 27 June 1852).

Date: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 mm.

Date: 1851

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-025

Description: Shows two cottages close to one another, one with a thatched roof, at a bend on the banks of the Avon, in a treeless landscape, close to Barbadoes Street, the landing place for boats coming up the Avon from the Estuary and sea. The Bricks was built of bricks made by the Deans brothers of Riccarton. There are several other smaller buildings on the right. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in ink: 'The Bricks' Wed Nov 1851, Canterbury, looking north. Also several partly illegible numbers top right, starting with '19' and ending in 'to 23', this last crossed out. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 127 x 178 mm

Date: 1851

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

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

Reference: C-103-095

Description: A broad river plain with a hut near the river on the left, a partly-constructed house and a raupo hut by a fenced area on the right. Distant hills are marked Wakaoma and Hokanui (Hokonui) Other Titles - Hokonui Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, on two sheets of wove paper, 182 x 259 mm and 182 x 259 mm

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-024

Description: Sketch of a small single-storied homestead with a verandah on one side. The Port Hills are in the background, and Riccarton Bush is on the far left. Shows C J W Cookson's house, Newbiggin, in the Ilam area of Christchurch The area of Cookson's house was closer to modern Avonhead or Ilam than to the modern suburb of Burnside. It is sometimes described as being at Burnside Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 125 x 1175 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-102

Description: Shows two houses on a steep cliff with a road beneath, probably the beginning of what became the Sumner Road at Lyttelton On the same page continuing from page 101 is the unfinished list of the movements of Mantell, Alfred Wills, William Fox, Captain Thomas and another man with the initial S around Banks Peninsula, January 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 60 x 103 (inverted)

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-086

Description: Shows a plain, with hills in the background and one house to the left, with a smaller house in the centre On the reverse is part of a letter: 'S. D. N. M. / C. S. O. June 2nd 52. Sir, I am informed that Mr C. W. Schultse of Wellington holds a Crown grant of lands in Katiki Bay, south of Wai'.[letter ends here]. Southern District New Munster = Otago Other Titles - Fancy view of the North East Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 76 x 190 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

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

Reference: E-334-112

Description: View looking south along the coast towards Pipitea Point, Thorndon and Wellington Harbour. A two-storied house is in the foreground, with possibly a boat drawn up on shore near the point and the faint outline of other buildings in the middle distance. Hills in the background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm. (page size)

Date: 1844 - 1845

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

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

Reference: C-103-021-6

Description: View from above Judge's Bay, looking towards the harbour, with Rangitoto and the signal on North Head marked, the roof of Attorney-General William Swainson's house in the left foreground, below bush, St Stephen's Church to the right, on a rise and another house on the far right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 80 x 125 mm

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-017-1

Description: View from the sea, showing extensive hills and the Ocean Bay settlement with several buildings on the shoreline. On the reverse is a rough sketch of an outline of hills at Port Underwood Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch on two pages, 99 x 530 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: E-334-051

Description: 6 drawings on one page, showing from top left, two views of storage platforms titled Te Owiwa or Te Owina, and 'forries and futters' [whares and whatas]. The 3rd view is of a pa alongside a river, with a whare and a storage platform, the 4th of a large egg, possibly a moa's egg. The 5th is titled W te R. Remains of pa f... Hap 1851 and another illegible word. It shows several carved niu poles, and a cabbage tree, with a plain and hills beyond and an unidentified object in front on the ground. The 6th is titled Ruataniwha and dated Sept 7, and is signed A. W. (Alfred Wills). It shows a pa alongside a river, possibly the same site as no. 3, with a stand of bush behind it, at Ruataniwha (a name no longer in current use) Ruataniwha was the name of the pa on the site that eventually became Twizel, South Canterbury Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1851

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

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

Reference: C-103-105-1

Description: The Aparima River curving around on the left, with a Maori dwelling and several people on the river bank to the right Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & blue wash, 59 x 178 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-001-1

Description: A self-drawn moko by an unknown Maori man, Possibly Te Whatanui, with the different parts of the design identified in Maori, e.g. 'Te ngu' for the upper nose area, 'te wha' for the chin area. The tattoo is for the nose, chin and cheek. In the background is a set of faint drawings by W. B. D. Mantell, including hands holding a plant. On the reverse are several pencil drawings by Mantell of Maori carvings, a whare or cottage, and a hut, inscribed 'Otaki 1844' 'Te Whatanui's whata, Ranginui, Otaki'. 'Ohau, Muhunoa' and an illegible word in Maori, probably a person's name written by him- or herself while learning to write Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 169 mm

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-006-3

Description: A small cottage with two door and an attic, in a clearing amongst large native trees. The figure of a man can be seen to the left. Possibly the earliest European residence in Wainuiomata See: White, W B: Reminiscences Extended Title - From: Mantell, W B D. Scrapbook, p. 6 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 178 mm