Places

Date: 1983-1985

From: Hames, Jenny :Negatives and photographs

Reference: PAColl-5811-1

Description: Greek Week in Wellington, reading recovery teachers and pupils, Sir Graham and Lady Latimer, piano teacher Judith Clark, Wellington City buses, Author Fiona Kidman, Kristelle Plimmer bringer of gorilla grams, the Heng family from Cambodia, Children's author Lynley Dodd, teacher and students at Kimi Ora school Wellington, Election night 1984 including Bob Jones, artist Janet Paul, editor Margaret Moony, Buskers on Wellington's streets. Quantity: 72 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1892 - 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-032

Description: On the page, a court official seated at a table, watched by another man. Glued to the page, two studies of a gold-miner with horse laden with his swag, and a shovel; also a separate study of a man reading a newspaper Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 151 x 251 mm.

Date: 1878

From: Thomas, E A C, 1825- :[Album of a visit to the Motueka area and North Canterbury]

By: Thomas, E A C, 1825-

Reference: E-305-q-008

Description: Half-length seated portrait of (Anglican) Bishop Cowie of Auckland. He is seated at a desk, a book in his left hand Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph with background in colour pencil, 140 x 97 mm on sheet 295 x 245 mm

Date: 1841 - 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-026-1

Description: Four drawings on one page. A broad landscape showing a lake with an island in the Waikato, with distant hills. A seated Maori woman, writing on a slate. She wears a smock. A river running beneath a bluff with a large waka being paddled. A sheer-sided rock in a river. Other Titles - Waikato Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of four drawings

Date: 1841 - 1847

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: E-143-081

Description: Three drawings on one page. At the top, a young Maori woman seated in front of a whare, reading, a baby against her chest. Her name may be Ewaka. Top right, 'The plain of Matamata' with three distant peaks identified, from left 'Mungatautari' (Mangatautari), Munga (Maunga) Kawa and Kiwitai. At bottom, a seated young man. This last also appears on the second photograph. Three drawings on the lower half of the same page. At the top, a seated young man, with a cloak or other garment draped around his waist. He has full moko. He also appears at the bottom of the first photograph. Bottom left a group inside a pa or kainga, with a standing man in a tag cloak, holding a tewhatewha, a seated woman to his left, a shorter standing man behind him, a reclining man in a cloak to his right, and another figure in the background. Part of a thatched whare is visible behind the group. Bottom left, 'The Waiho, source of the Thames' a landscape showing the Waihou (Thames) river valley Originals in the British Library, Add. MS 19953, Folio 81 (229 to 233) The young woman reading may be the same woman, named as Ewaka, as appears in a similar view in the Alexander Turnbull Library's Hobson Album, E-216-f relocated at A-275-002 Other Titles - Waihou Quantity: 2 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photographs of five drawings, various media

Date: 1886

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbooks

Reference: E-037-q-1-023

Description: Side view of large trees with a hammock slung between two trunks. A man reclines in the hammock, reading a book. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on page 213 x 144 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, one sketch dated 1864, one 1893]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-014-q-1-040

Description: Probably a view of the Hogkins' family kitchen, with Mrs Hodgkins seated in a chair, reading, on the left, a clock and pictures on the wall in the centre background, a kitten seated on the hearthrug in front of the fire to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with touches of watercolour, 130 x 192 mm

Date: ca 1885

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: A-214-085

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of grey-haired woman with bun, and spectacles low on the nose, probably reading. This is possibly a sketch of the artist's mother, Rachel Owen Hodgkins (nee Parker). Dated 1885, because of similarity of style and paper, to A-214-084, which is dated 1885. Probably also executed at Ravensbourne. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil on grey wove paper, 184 x 107 mm. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1852

From: Greenwood, Sarah 1809-1889 :[Greenwood family portraits] 1848-1858

By: Greenwood, Sarah, 1809?-1889

Reference: A-252-026

Description: Shows a half length portrait of a young man seated at a table reading a book. He wears a jacket, waistcoat and ribbon-tie. Location assumed to be Motueka, from comparison with the portrait of the 5th son on March 2nd 1852 at Motueka. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 185 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook. ca 1890]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-424-q-021

Description: Two half-length sketches of the same man reading. Possibly shows William Mathew Hodgkins, the artist's father at home Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 201 x 119 mm

Date: 1854

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-021

Description: Two wooden dwellings, side by side, the nearer with a slab chimney. A man is seated on the ground outside, reading, watched by two seated Maori from a distance. "Willie" is William John Swainson, the son of the artist On verso of A-188-021/001: [Tree fern], by Edith Stanway (Swainson) Halcombe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Willies Cottage Upper Hutt; Dated: "Nov. 1854" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 100 x 165 mm

Date: 1884

By: Ashton, Julian Rossi, 1851-1942; Illustrated New Zealand News (Newspaper); Fergusson and Mitchell (Firm)

Reference: C-068-008

Description: A family playing on a beach. Five children are making a sandcastle in the foreground, while their mother and a sixth child rest under a parasol to the right at the base of a hill. At the top of the hill, cannon are visible, along with a lighthouse, and a steamship and a yacht can be seen in the water in the background. The scene has been previously identified as the Waitemata Harbour; however Ashton was an Australian artist so the area depicted could be Australian, or it could be an imaginary scene, relating to either Australia or New Zealand. Extended Title - From The illustrated New Zealand news. Supplement. April 1884 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 310 x 455 mm

Date: 1852

From: Greenwood, Sarah 1809-1889 :[Greenwood family portraits] 1848-1858

By: Greenwood, Sarah, 1809?-1889

Reference: A-252-021

Description: John Danforth Greenwood, Doctor at Motueka, Nelson in the 1840s and 1850s, seated on a chair, holding a book. Exhibited in "Treasures in Trust" National Library Gallery, 1995 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S. G. Decr 1852; Recto - For my dearest Mother. S. G. Neighbours and Friends all exclaim "Oh that's the Doctor exactly"! Family Verdict "Mama's best"! Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 150 x 140 mm

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-277-030

Description: The interior of a hut, with a soldier reading and smoking a pipe, the remains of a meal, including alcohol in front of him. He is seated at a large table, with a form along one side, suggesting that the room may be part of soldiers' barracks. Another room is visible to the left, with a thatched entranceway protruding into the main room. A sheathed sword and gun in its holster and another container are hanging from a beam and a skylight is propped open with a long stick. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 132 x 147 mm

Date: 1852 - 1848

From: Greenwood, Sarah 1809-1889 :[Greenwood family portraits] 1848-1858

By: Greenwood, Sarah, 1809?-1889

Reference: A-252-027

Description: Half length three-quarters frontal portrait of the artist's oldest son, John. He is shown seated at a desk, reading a large volume, which is propped up on another book. He appears to be in adolescence and is wearing a brown jacket and short waistcoat Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - S. G. 1848; Verso - bottom left: 'John Greenwood. Considered a very fair but not perfect likeness as the mouth is not quite correct' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 185 x 146 mm

Date: 1840

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

Reference: C-103-012-1

Description: A series of 6 cartoons, probably showing the flooding that occurred in the Hutt Valley to the first European settlers in 1840. From the top, the views show a man (probably a self-portrait) afloat on a raft, holding up a bottle, with drowned trees to one side (captioned 'Day'), with below that, the same man (captioned 'Night') in his tent, reading a book by a kerosine lamp, but still seated on a raft. This section is also captioned in Latin 'De memento rebus in arduis servaramente' referring to the memory of great difficulties at the time. The next drawing, titled 'Pleasant. Very!' shows the same man tripping over a snag in the flooded river, with part of a thatched cottage, also flooded, to one side. The fourth sketch 'An interesting chase, Hutt, 1840' shows the man poling himself along on the raft in pursuit of his boots, which are floating away. Another flooded house is in the background. The fifth view shows a man fast asleep and afloat on the water (Where ignorance is bliss...Hutt 1840)l. The sixth shows the man rescuing a young Maori woman from the floodwater. Two pages removed from a sketchbook Other Titles - Set of pencil cartoons. West Mokau. Taken on board Anne and Sara [note along the side above a drawing of a range of hills] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches, 429 x 126 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854

Reference: A-275-002

Description: A Maori woman, wearing a flax cloak, and a blanket, seated in profile in front of a whare. She is holding a baby and reading a book. The baby is dressed in a white frilled bonnet and white gown. The woman's cloak is a korowai-ngore (pompom cloak) with flax tags and woollen pompoms, (and possibly fringe). In the background is a lake and perhaps Ngaruhoe's volcanic peak beyond that. (Merret visited Taupo in 1841). The woman's name is likely to be Ewaka, judging by the inscription on the verso. The facsimile edition of Mrs Hobson's album (by Else Locke and Janet, Paul, Auckland, 1990) assigns this work the title 'Maori woman reading'. Other Titles - Maori woman reading Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Ewaka [in pencil] A related pencil blue pen and wash drawing is held in the Grey album, British Library, Add. MS 19953, folio 81, no. 229, lacking the background of lake and mountain shown in the Hobson Album version. The Grey album was donated to the British Museum in 1853, when Grey returned to Britain after his first governorship of New Zealand (Correspondence from Aneleh Midgley Auckland, 13 November 2006). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper, 170 x 120 mm Provenance: Originally part of Mrs Hobson's album. The album was passed by Eliza Hobson to her daughter, Eliza, Lady Rendel. Transfers: One of several pages removed from the Hobson album for conservation reasons, 1990. This page was formerly located on p. 19 of the album..

Date: 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-001

Description: Shows passengers on the deck of the ferry steamer Wakatipu on Foveaux Strait. The passengers are variously promenading, admiring the view, reading a newspaper or a book, or sitting and talking. A lifeboat can be seen at an upper level of the ship. A preliminary pencil drawing of the same scene is held at E-147-041 'S S Wakatip - Stewart Island trip on deck, 25/12/96 [sic]. The way some people enjoy themselves, see back for the way other people enjoy themselves'. The back shows a seasick passenger lying in a bunk. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 170 x 255 mm