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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Smith's Sta[tion] and mouth of Waianakarua....
Date: 1848
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: E-334-080
Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)
[Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant] 1820-1895 :View from Goodwood of Betterwood 16 Apr. 1852
Date: 1852
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: C-103-098-1
Description: Shows an extensive plain and occasional conical hills, with a cluster of houses at the foot of the hills just right of centre. Spread across two pages of a sketchbook. Part of W B D Mantell's Scrapbook (C-103) "Betterwood" is a joke of Mantell's A similar but not identical panorama, from a different angle, showing Goodwood, is on six pages of Mantell's sketchbook E-332, with titles From Mount Royal, 1, 2 and 3. Reference numbers are E-332-006/007, E-332-008/009 and E-332-012/013 Other Titles - Mt Watkin. Rocky mountains. Carte Blanche, Pique, Repique, Mt Charles, Mt Royal Inscriptions: Recto - SDNM i. e. Southern District New Munster, now known as Otago, South Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 65 x 35 mm