Places

Date: 1860

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Day & Son (Firm)

Reference: B-051-015

Description: Shows a number of block-houses grouped round the settlement. Mt Egmont is in the distance and the sea in the foreground. The perspective of the foreground is a bird's-eye view. It includes the houses, St Mary's church, and other buildings of New Plymouth After a watercolour by John Gully in Archives New Zealand. See Ellis, E. M. & D. G. Early prints of NZ (Christchurch, 1972), item no. 630 The majority of these forts were never built Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph in tints, 221 x 340 mm on sheet 320 x 400 mm

Date: 1903

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-052

Description: Mount Taranaki, with houses in the foreground, and possibly the remains of the Omata Stockade among bush Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: Ca 1908

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

By: Duncan, David, active 1910s

Reference: 1/2-001079-G

Description: View of Mount Taranaki behind Awatuna East. The premises of William King Howitt, storekeeper, baker and post office are visible centre left. Photograph taken by D Duncan (David Duncan, photographer at Opunake), ca 1910s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Awatuna East. [No.] 1181; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - D Duncan Photo Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.5 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1889

From: Wakefield, Edward 1845-1924 :New Zealand illustrated. The story of New Zealand and descriptions of its cities and towns by Edward Wakefield; also (by various writers) the natural wonders of New Zealand (past and present). Wanganui. A. D. Willis, 1889.

Reference: PUBL-0019-04

Description: An extensive view of the city of Wanganui from the south bank of the River, with houses and gardens in the foreground, a bridge and the civic buildings houses and churches. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the distance to the left and Ruapehu to the right. Cows in a paddock on the left and several boats in the river Probably based on a photograph Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 167 x 370 mm

Date: 1880

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-367-015

Description: A view of Mount Taranaki and surrounding countryside, with the Mokoia homestead, and another smaller house at the left. Inscriptions: Recto - title, probably added by the donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 355 mm Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

Date: 1861

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: A-236-020

Description: View from the sea, with the palisades of Wiremu Kingi te Rangitake's Pa, the buildings inside and several European-style buildings beyond the palisades, canoes drawing up to the shore and Mount Taranaki in the background. Attributed to Warre on stylistic grounds Other Titles - Waitara Inscriptions: Verso - Wiremu Kingi's fishing pah at the mouth of the Waitera River on the disputed land. Mount Egmont from the mouth of the Waitera. H. Warre, Col. 57th Regiment. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 255 mm

Date: 1880

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935; Watt, Muriel Mary, 1917-2005

Reference: A-367-016

Description: A view of Mount Taranaki (in summer) and surrounding countryside, with the Mokoia homestead, and another smaller house at the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 173 x 360 mm Provenance: Donated by Mrs Mary Watt, Wellington, through the family of the artist, in 2004.

Date: 1865

From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867

Reference: A-277-031

Description: Looking inland towards a range of hills and mountains, including Mount Taranaki at some distance, with a small unoccupied canoe and a dinghy with a sail carrying three people from one bank to the other. Two more small boats further up the river, and, in the distance, a house and a row of cabbage trees. Likely to be a river in South Taranaki, or North of Wanganui, although not as far north as the Patea River, given the small size of Mount Taranaki in the distance. Possibly the Waitotara River. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 97 x 137 mm

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-021

Description: Shows stream meandering through foreground, group of four houses right distance, and Mount Egmont left background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 230 mm (oval) Provenance: Family descent from artist to Wilkie family

Date: 1863

By: Arden, Francis Hamar, 1841-1899

Reference: A-173-010

Description: Shows blockhouse, with two flanking towers, stockade, flagstaffs, and military huts; Mount Egmont in the background Similar to illustration based on drawing by Arden in Cowan, J. The New Zealand Wars. Wellington, 1922 v. 1, p. 161 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 227 x 338 mm

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-022

Description: Shows Egmont, viewed from the north-west, with only a light dusting of snow on the summit. In the foreground is a farmhouse and a group of cattle Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 235 mm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1863

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-026

Description: Bell Block stockade on the right with several other buildings and a flag-pole, on a small hill overlooking a plain, with another building nearby, smoke from burnt out buildings in the distance and Mount Taranaki in the background. Copied by Hamley from the drawings of his superior officer, E. A. Williams. There are two possible originals for this work, one in the Hocken Library entitled "Bell Block House 15 June 1864", the other in the Turnbull, entitled "Bell Block. 14 June (ref. E-349-a-127/128) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 132 x 211 mm

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-006

Description: View of New Plymouth from the shoreline, looking south-east towards several houses and their gardens, the fenced redoubt with buildings and flags on Marsland Hill and the cone of Mount Taranaki in the centre distance. A large building on the right may be the New Zealand Company Store. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title. Also, lower right: 'William Strutt del.t 1856' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 200 x 290 mm

Date: 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: B-103-015

Description: Shows a military encampment on the left, settlers houses and the barracks on Marsland Hill towards the right. At the foot of Marsland Hill is St Mary's Church. Mount Taranaki is in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Inscribed on painting: N.Plymouth; Recto - beneath image - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 170 mm

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-016

Description: Cattle in foreground with herdsman, Waiwhakaiho? River, the township of New Plymouth, the Sugar Loaf rocks and Mt Taranaki. The view is framed on the left with a tall tree, a cabbage tree and flax First reproduced as engraving in: Brees, S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 5, no 13, text p 11 In his text to Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, Brees asserts that the river in the foreground is the "Waitera", i.e. Waitara. However the Sugar Loaf rocks would not be visible from the mouth of the Waitara and the river is most likely to be the Waiwhakaiho, whose mouth is on the coast in New Plymouth city. There was no settlement of the size shown in this view at Waitara, between 1842 and 1845, when Brees must have drawn this scene. Other Titles - Town of New Plymouth at Taranaki Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Library holds black and white photograph of original watercolour (in private hands) neg 35175 1/2. The original lacks the prominent dairy herd in the foreground of the engraving, but has a smaller herd in a valley in the foreground and two riders on horseback on the far left. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 90 x 193 mm

Date: 1881

By: Fulton, William Wright, 1854-1940; Fulton, Howard, 1880-1954

Reference: A-081-008

Description: View from a hill looking down into the valley with houses, cleared areas and bush over low hills. Mount Egmont is in the background. There is a cart in the right foreground in a fenced field. There are many tree stumps and felled trunks visible Inscriptions: Signed: W.F. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 254 x 300 mm

Date: 1861 - 1863

Reference: A-090-006

Description: A view from the sea, showing some detail of buildings near the water's edge, with Mt Taranaki in the background. '1.Friendly natives' stockade' is noted in the centre of the view, on a hill; '2. Carrington Road Blockhouse' is further to the right, also on a hill with the bush-line behind both buildings. Inscriptions: Verso - Title on back and signature G.B.H. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 140 x 224 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull.

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891

Reference: A-457-008-6

Description: Mount Taranaki on the left in the distance. Two cottages in a clearing backed by tall trees in the middle ground, with fenced in gardens. In the foreground two figures can be seen, along with a number of sheep and cows The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-039 ("Okoaro". Cottage of J. Stephenson Smith Esq.re New Plymouth ...), attributed to the subject's wife and published in Hursthouse's 1857 work, three years before this work is dated On the verso are four pencil drawings of non-New Zealand scenes, probably England. One of the scenes is identified as 'Cookham Church', which is the Holy Trinity Church in the village of Cookham, Berkshire, England Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - "Okoaro" / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm

Date: 1860

From: Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]

By: Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913

Reference: A-457-008-7

Description: Shows fenced pasture in the foreground with two cows and a human figure, a cottage surrounded by bush and trees in the centre, and with Mount Taranaki and surrounding hills in the distance The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...), possibly after George Channing Gilbert, and published as a lithograph by Vincent Brooks in Hursthouse's 1857 publication, three years before this work is dated. Compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...) On the verso is another pencil drawing of a cottage, with trees, fenced pasture and gardens surrounding; possibly the same farmhouse from a different perspective Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p.209 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cottage of a small farmer / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm