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Date: 1911

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-003-012

Description: Rolling farmland, with a road leading to a distant farmhouse, and two men with a two-wheeled cart. Hills in the background If the hills in the background are intended to represent the Port Hills of Canterbury, their height is much exaggerated Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 211 x 322 mm

Date: 1849 - 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-030

Description: A view of Lake Rotomahana from Ngawhara Hill. Two men (Sir George Grey, and George Cooper) stand on the left by a dead tree, pointing at the lake. To the right is a whare. In the Lake is Puai Island with steam rising and several low Maori dwellings. The White Terraces and mountains are in the background. Dating: Grey, Cooper and Clarke were at Rotomahana on 29 December 1849 Other Titles - 29 December 1849 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in ink. Bottom right, signature and date Compare an almost identical watercolour version of this view in the Alexander Turnbull reference number B-030-002, titled 'Hot Springs. Sir George Grey and my father in the early 1850s' There are also similar views in the National Library of Australia, by G F Swainson, after Cuthbert Clarke. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing original 10.5 x 15 inches

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: A-252-019

Description: View from above Saltwater Creek. The low hill with buildings on the right is Church Hill, with the fortifications around the emigration barracks (pre-fabricated) where Nelson Cathedral now stands. Just below the hill, in Nile Street, is the Bishop's School (still standing). Trafalgar Street, the main street, runs down from Church Hill to the left, through the buildings that line it. The flat gap near the hill is where Hardy Street now runs across Trafalgar Street; the next, one block further left, is now Bridge Street. In the far left centre are the watermill and the brewery, the first in New Zealand, exporting beer to Wellington and Auckland. Two male travellers, one with a swag, are in the foreground. A woman is pursuing three cows in right foreground. A watercolour version of this drawing, titled Nelson dated 27 October 1845, is held in a private collection: negative 23060 1/2. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Drawn by F.D.B.; Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing pasted on card : pencil ; image 197 x 269 mm on card 220 x 290 mm

Date: 1849

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: B-030-002

Description: Shows a view of Lake Rotomahana from Ngawhara Hill. Two men stand on the left, by a dead tree, pointing at the lake. To the right is a whare. In the lake is a small island (Puai Island) with steam rising and several low Maori dwellings. The White Terraces and mountains are in the background. On the right is a whare. For detailed description of the view see: Journal Taranaki by way of Rotorua, Taupo and the West Coast undertaken in the summer of 1849-50 by his Excellency the Governor-in-chief of New Zealand. Auckland 1851 Other Titles - Rotomahana Lake, 29 December 1849. Inscriptions: (On accompanying paper label in pen): [Title] See also P S RNK 113 1/2; RNK 114 1/2; 115 1/2; RNK 116/1/2 which are by G F Swainson after C C Clarke and appear to have been sketched by Clarke on the same expedition See also drawing in the British Library by Clarke, 'Rotomahana Lake New Zealand Aug 1850' (Add. MS 19954, Folio 30 (33) which is very similar to this view, complete with dead tree and two gesturing figures on the left, a whare to the right, an island with buildings in the centre of the lake. Sir George Grey is identified as the left-hand figure. (Photograph in photo files in Drawings, Paintings & Prints; also a copy at E-144-030) Attributed to Cuthbert Clarke. Painted on Sir George Grey's expedition 1849-1850 The title is taken from a note on an accompanying label, and does not imply that Cuthbert Clarke's father is depicted (see AT 3/1/1/, 30 March 1983). The provenance of the work is unknown, but it is likely that the figure depicted is either G. S. Cooper (Grey's assistant private secretary), or Lieut. Symonds; both these men accompanied Grey on his expedition. Symonds had no children, so the 'father' referred to is most likely to be Cooper. Another slight possibility is that the label was written by a child of Cuthbert Clarke's. He had two sons born in Castlemaine, Victoria, in 1856 and 1858. His wife died on the birth of the second son; Clarke died in 1863, leaving the children as young orphans, whose fate is unknown. However the reference to 'Sir G Grey' suggests someone familiar with Grey, who was famous in New Zealand, rather than in Australia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 185 x 252 mm

Date: 1845

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: C-089-013

Description: Two large flax bushes in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Maori excavations for pa on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert, with other hills in the background. Mt Albert has no houses on or around it Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 247 mm

Date: 1865

By: Chesney, Francis Rawdon, 1824-; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-196-025

Description: A rocky foreshore and cliff in the foreground, possibly Kaiwharawhara, or further along the Hutt Road at Rocky Point looking towards Khandallah and Ngaio. Only two houses are shown amidst bushy hills. In the foreground a European man is on horseback, accompanied by a Maori man and woman. Another European is standing near a Maori man while the latter pushes a small canoe out from the rocks. A single yacht is in the water. Date of 1865 is suggested because an F. R. Chesney wrote to James Coutts Crawford from Tasmania on geological matters in December 1864 and may have come later to Wellington as a visitor. Wellington became the capital in 1865. The view appears to be quite early with only two houses showing and Maori shown in partial European dress. The signature on the letter from Tasmania matches that on the watercolour. Chesney's letter makes it clear that he is a resident in Tasmania and that English is probably his first language, suggesting that the French title may have been added by a later owner Other Titles - Nouvelle Zelande, Port de Nicholson. New Zealand Port Nicholson, Wellington, near the capital [translation and correction] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - monogram FC in ink; also F. R. Chesney in brushpoint.; Verso - title in pencil in French; also inscriptions in pencil transcribing the title and repeating it in English along with a signature and date (17 Jany 1934) in the hand of A. W. F. Fuller. Further very faint illegible inscriptions in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on light card, 195 x 284 mm. Provenance: Collection of A. W. F. Fuller.