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Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-111

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with low fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery in the centre. A road runs past the cemetery towards Government House in the middle distance. Several other houses can also be seen. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-041. The view is attributed to Edward Ashworth by Janet Paul in Mrs Hobson's album (Auckland, 1990) p. 149. However there are strong stylistic similarities to the work of Mitford, and it seems more likely that he painted two views from similar spots for Mrs Hobson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 301 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1865 - 1880

By: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881

Reference: G-250

Description: View across Waitemata Harbour entrance to North Head, with Rangitoto beyond. Two small steamers and a yacht are in the water. There is a rocky shore and cliff in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H.S.C. in brushpoint Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 245 x 447 mm Provenance: Previously on sale at a Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington

Date: [ca 1912]

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

Reference: 1/2-000661-G

Description: View of Rangitoto Island taken from a high vantage point in Devonport (possibly Mr Victoria Reserve) looking across Cheltenham. Photograph taken by William A Price in early 1900s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Devonport. 803 William Archer Price lived and practised in Queen Street, Northcote, 1909-1910. Source: New Zealand Post Office directories Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-041

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery to the left. Government House is left of centre in the middle distance and three other houses overlooking Grafton Gully are somewhat closer on the right, one of them the home of William Connell, the first Postmaster-General and his wife Isabella. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-111 Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in pencil: Entrance to the Harbour, Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896; Hobson, Eliza Ann, 1811?-1876

Reference: A-275-007

Description: Auckland City from the hills behind the city, with a flax bush to the right and three Maori viewing the scene from the fern on the left. A stream in the middle ground (now the site of Queen Street) leads down to the town with Government House shown in the fenced area in the centre right and St Paul's Church silhouetted against Mt Victoria across the harbour. The cluster of buildings closest to the viewer at the lowest point in the valley is the Queen Street gaol, excavated in 1987 (see TL13/14/1 8/3/91). Rangitoto is shown in the background and there are several ships in the harbour. The scene is shown at sunset. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. A preliminary pencil drawing for this watercolour is held at A-208-018. The title of the watercolour is taken from the title of the pencil drawing, which shows St Paul's without its tower, although a tentative tower is lightly sketched in. The drawing would be likely to have been executed during 1843 and no later than January 1844, when Ashworth departed New Zealand for Hong Kong. The watercolour may have been completed while Ashworth was in New Zealand, with the putative tower added; or he may have worked from his pencil sketch at a slightly later date. Several of the sketches in the Hobson album were completed after Mrs Hobson left New Zealand in 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 242 x 365 mm Provenance: The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album (E-216-f).. Processing information: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was too large for the album and was becoming damaged around the edges. It was formerly located on p. 107 of the album.