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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

Date: Photographs of New Plymouth and district including Mount Egmont, and a sequence of views of Parihaka (including the campaign of 1881).

By: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920

Reference: PA1-q-183

Description: Photographs of New Plymouth and district, including Mount Egmont, and a sequence of views of Parihaka (including the campaign of 1881). Scenes of Parihaka, especially with relationship to the 1881 incident, include views of the pa (with Te Whiti's house visible); the Rahotu volunteer camp, the Rahotu Redoubt; Fort Rolleston; Sentry Hill; Pungarehu officers' quarters and redoubt; Nelson Camp; the Taranaki Rifles and Wellington Navals. Scenic views in the area show Mount Egmont, Bell's Falls, the `Meeting-of-the-Waters', White Cliffs, Sugar Loaf Islands, the New Plymouth breakwater, and views of the New Plymouth Recreation Ground. Relationship complexity - Negatives, from which many of the prints in this album were made, are at PAColl-3032. See 10x8-1073 etc Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, dark green corners and spine; 28.0 x 36 5 cm

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: 1864 - 1865

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-035-003

Description: Looking towards New Plymouth from out to sea, with the Sugar Loaf Islands to the far right, the houses of New Plymouth close to the water's edge in the centre, and Mount Taranaki in the background. Several ships in a fleet are in the middle distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 292 x 431 mm

Date: 1847

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-063

Description: Houses (including Webster's and Robinson's), St Mary's Church and churchyard, Maori cultivation, Marsland Hill, with Maori and European fortifications, and areas of fern and garden marked on a drawing from the New Zealand Company Lands Office looking inland into New Plymouth township. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 161 x 245 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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: 1850

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-008

Description: A view of rolling hills with, from left, the artist's house (with verandah and high hipped thatched roof), the school room, 'my room' (the artist's small work hut), a shed, the site of the later house and the house of 'old George'. Other houses can be seen in the distance Title from verso Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 234 x 293 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

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-002

Description: View looking across the settlement to the Sugar Loaves. Shows bullock teams coming from the beach at the right, and men clearing the bush in the right foreground. In the left foreground a Maori tends three goats. At the centre is Mount Eliot, with the summer residence of Sir George Grey (formerly that of J. T. Wicksteed). The view is derived from "View of Mount Eliot ... " in C. F. Hursthouse's "An account of the settlement of New Plymouth ..." (London, 1849), opp. p.76. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H. Maplestone Maplestone is believed not ever to have come to New Zealand. At the time Maplestone dated his paintings, Brees was displaying in London and elsewhere his New Zealand panorama, and Hursthouse was lecturing on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 305 x 460 mm.

Date: [ca 1881]

From: Parihaka album 1

Reference: PA1-q-183-33

Description: New Plymouth, with Mount Taranaki in the background, photographed by William Andrews Collis circa 1881. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [1950s]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091556-F

Description: Houses along the coastline at Fitzroy Beach photographed by Robert E Wells probably in the late 1950s. Caption - Fitzroy Beach camp - for S Price [from photographer's negative register] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [ca 1957]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: 1/4-091389-F

Description: View of houses and cars at Fitzroy Beach, New Plymouth. Most of this view is of the camping ground, which is now largley reserve. Photographed by Robert E Wells, in the late 1950s. Bruce Geden identified this view as Fitzroy Beach and the forler capming ground, November 2009. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: 1842 - 1857

By: Smith, Hannah Stephenson, 1813-1891; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-039

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 a field with sheep and cattle and hay being hauled on a cart by oxen. The artist is very likely to be Hannah Stephenson Smith who drew views of a later family home in Taranaki, and was also the sister of the author of the book in which this view appeared as the frontispiece. Compare with A-457-008-6 ("Okoara", New Plymouth, N.Z.), dated 1860 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Frontispiece. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 90 x 150 mm on sheet 120 x 180 mm

Date: 1852

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-010

Description: Looking down onto the roof of the King homestead in New Plymouth, with rolling hills, cleared land and fences, part of a ploughed field in the foreground and a patch of bush with tree ferns and the flagstaff in the background, beyond other houses. Behind the King house, is a small shed marked as 'my little room' and a larger cottage marked as 'school room'. Other Titles - Mr S. P. King and Miss King. New Plymouth with old flagstaff in background. Inscriptions: Verso - Inscribed in ink: 1852 Mrs S P King and Miss King New Plymouth with old flagstaff in background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 237 x 294 mm

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: C-030-010

Description: Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches. cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past. See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott". Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840? Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.

Date: 1864

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-024

Description: View looking south along the coastline at New Plymouth, with a solider standing on the beach in the right foreground. In the middle distance are the houses of New Plymouth and the fortified buildings on top of 'Mount Eliot' (The former site of the Maori pa 'Puke Ariki' in New Plymouth) A copy of an original by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'From your special correspondent by the sad sea waves, 2 July 1864', a watercolour in the Hocken Library, formerly bound into Williams' scrapbook, p. 21. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 168 x 244 mm

Date: 1864

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-020

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Paritutu Rock, with the houses of New Plymouth along the foreshore, a flag flying above one building on the skyline and a rowboat being hauled ashore onto the beach. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Beach and Sugar Loaves New Plymouth. [1864]' in the Hocken Library, in Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 134 x 207 mm

Reference: PAColl-5411

Description: View over New Plymouth. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - 2880 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1860]

Reference: 1/2-011751-F

Description: Raupo house near New Plymouth, ca 1860. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Note on back of file print reads "see also 1/2-111063 which is the same image, but cropped" "The kennel on the right suggests that a large dog shares this home. Equipment for doing the laundry can be seen by the hedge on the right. Raupo, a marsh reed, was a traditional building material of the Maori. The raupo was tied in bundles and lashed to a wooden framework with flax. The roof was then thatched. These homes were cheap and quick to build, and relatively weathertight. They were, however, highly inflammable and were eventually forbidden in towns. The imported doors and windows would later be transferred to a more permanent home." (Information taken from caption used in "Darling, I'm home!" display). Exhibited in 'Darling, I'm Home!' exhibition at the National Library of New Zealand, 1 June - 5 July 1999. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).