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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-005

Description: Shows a spirited group of three Maori, two men and one woman, each on horseback, galloping from left to right in profile. The woman wears a top hat, and the men wear peaked caps. The woman rides sidesaddle. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt 1856.; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 190 x 255 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-452-f-005-2

Description: A young man standing, draped in a flax cloak, moko on his chin, two feathers in his hair, ear adornments in each ear, and a tewhatewha in his right hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 230 x 180 mm

Date: 1855 - 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-001

Description: Nine Maori men engaged in a haka with a mixture of Maori and European weapons and clothing. A large low rock in the foreground, and three carved canoe prows drawn up, suggesting a beach location at New Plymouth Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title; also lower left, signature: William Strutt. Both inscriptions in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 200 x 295 mm

Date: 1855

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Vogtherr, Ernest George Frederick, 1898-1973

Reference: A-263-023

Description: Three people building a tent on a wooden framework, surrounded by bush. A European woman in hat, cape and full skirt, probably William Strutt's wife, Sarah, is in front of the tent with her back to the viewer. A European man, probably the artist, wearing a military-style cap and blue jacket, is beyond the tent, facing the viewer and a Maori man or woman is alongside him. There is a large wicker basket on the right of the image. Title taken from information supplied to a previous owner, E G F Vogtherr, by the artist's granddaughter and recorded on a typed label glued to the back of the original mat. William and Sarah Strutt left Australia for Taranaki in February 1855. They spent 18 months in New Zealand attempting to survive as pioneers, then returned to Australia. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 72 x 115 mm Provenance: Previously owned by E.G.F. Vogtherr [his bookplate dated 1968 on back of an early mat]; acquired from the artist's granddaughter, a Mrs Thompson "taken from a private folio", according to a typed label glued to the back of the mat, presumably by Mr Vogtherr.

Date: 1855 - 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-012-4

Description: Three men slashing with machetes at the undergrowth and vines in dense New Zealand bush, near New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 100 x 150 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-014

Description: Nine small studies of standing and seated Maori, mostly in groups. Include a seated portrait of a woman called Martha, wrapped in a blanket, and of a Maori man taking a pig on a rope to market in Taranaki. Three groups of seated Maori are labelled 'Onehunga nr Auckland'. One drawing is a study for Strutt's 'Maori girl with a dog' Quantity: 9 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 40 x 50 mm to 90 x 125 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-005-1

Description: Full-length frontal portrait of a young Maori woman, seated or kneeling. She has moko on lips and chin, scars on her left cheek, her hair parted in the middle. She wears a large tiki, and a European smock, with two fine woven cloaks over the top. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 230 x 180 mm

Date: 1857

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-010

Description: Three settlers felling timber. Two are working with axes at the trunk of a rata, centre right, while a third is resting in the left foreground. There are large tree-ferns and several nikau in the clearing beyond the men, with tree trunks piled up and native bush around the edges of the view. Mount Taranaki can be seen in the background Compare a similar view in monotone wash, rectangular shape, at E-453-f-013-1 Other Titles - Bush felling Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 200 x 280 mm

Date: 1855 - 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-009

Description: Rolling scrub-covered hills, with Mount Taranaki in the background and the palisades of a pa on a rise to the right in the middle distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1855 - 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-004

Description: Two young Maori women in a small carved canoe, padding in surf, their hair flying Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 280 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-002-1

Description: A woman sitting disconsolately on the ground outside the fenced grave of her husband, Rawiri. Her hair is loose and she is gazing downwards. The grave has a post and rail fence on all sides and an upright canoe buried by its prow outside the fence Dated from Strutt's watercolour 'Rawiri Wairua's grave & the spot where he fell, 1855' (E-453-f-002-1) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 235 x 205 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-011-1

Description: A small one or two-room slab hut in a clearing, with smoke coming from its chimney. Its roof is made from a stretched canvas tarpaulin. An a-frame shed is in the right background. In the foreground is a neatly-laid out vegetable garden. A rata on the left, as well as several tree ferns can be seen, with dense bush in the background Other Titles - Back settler's whare Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 110 x 150 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-015-3

Description: Front profile of a carved boundary post, known as Fitzroy's Pole, erected near Bell Block, New Plymouth. A group of six Maori are standing and seated around its base. All are armed. Mount Taranaki is in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour wash, 315 x 190 mm

Date: 1855 - 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-016-3

Description: Drawing of a Maori fish hook, viewed from the side Other Titles - Haliotis shell in front. Fern wood or Totara back of hook. Kahawai Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 75 x 75 mm

Date: 1855

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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-010-2

Description: Half length frontal portrait of a Taranaki Maori chief with full moko. He is wearing a cloak held together with a bone clasp Rawiri is the Maori form of the English name David. Rawiri died in 1855 and his grave is shown in E-453-f-002-2 'Rawiri Wairua's grave & the spot where he fell. 1855' and in E-453-f-0 'Rawiri's widow' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 150 x 130 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-009-2

Description: A seated young Maori woman, wrapped in a blanket The identity of the word describing the pa is not clear Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 140 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-006

Description: 1. Hone Ropiha, a Maori man wearing a cap and European clothing covered with a flax cloak, seated on a rock. 2. His father, reclining, wrapped in a red blanket, inside the palisades of a pa. 3. A frontal and side view of Rawiri, seated, wrapped in a red blanket Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on 3 sheets glued to album page

Date: 1855 - 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-011-1

Description: A young girl, seen from the side, looking over her right shoulder. She is carrying a small dog in a blanket forming a sling on her back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - William Strutt [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 265 x 150 mm

Date: 1856 - 1866

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-637

Description: Bullock cart with Maori bringing canoe ashore. Background is a combination of the shoreline at Onehunga (Auckland) and south of New Plymouth (Taranaki), showing Paritutu volcanic peak and the off-shore Sugar Loaf Islands. Strutt described the group of Maori depicted as being at Onehunga, however. Extract from William Strutt's journal Part II, p. 210 (ed G. Mackaness): "before leaving Onehunga a pretty sight presented itself to us. The morning was lovely and the charming bay and beach were quite animated with a fleet of canoes, just arrived with all sorts of produce for the Auckland market. The picturesque canoes were beached to the lively song of the natives, their contents landed and the tribe gathered together to hear a short speech from a fine old chief, which done, the kits (native baskets) were shouldered, or strapped to the backs of the bearers, with the strong and handy slings, each generally as well carring a huge cum cum or pumpkin, while not a few drove fat pigs tied by one leg to the market." Strutt also labelled a photograph of this painting, many years later as "Maoris beaching their canoes and going off to market at Onehunga near Auckland". - information about photograph label from Heather Curnow, Strutt's biographer, see TL3/1/1 24 July 1974. Chief Librarian's office, 1st floor, National Library building, from June 2006 Other Titles - Maoris beaching their canoes and going off to market at Onehunga near Auckland 1856 Inscriptions: Recto - W. S. (artist's initials) A copy in Taranaki Museum bears the inscription: Puketapu fishing fleet. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 410 x 830 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull?

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