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Date: 1880 - 1900

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-002-018

Description: View across a lake towards mountains rising steeply, divided by a gorge The name Mokura is not in current use. The scene appears to be in Fiordland, where the artist spent many years Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed in brushpoint: S.H.M. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash sketch, 313 x 381 mm

Date: 1885

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Wildey family

Reference: A-231-013

Description: Looking south west from a hill above Okarito, towards a line of houses alongside Okarito Lagoon, the bay and distant hills in the background. A small farmhouse is in the foreground Other Titles - Okarito Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 194 x 325 mm.

Date: 1914

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; McIntosh, Rosa Isabella, 1905-1983

Reference: B-003-022

Description: View from a high mountain towards Mitre Peak, sheathed in mist Inscriptions: Verso - [In pencil in the artist's hand - title and] To see this view of the mountain it is necessary to take a climb some 500 feet up the Barren Peak Range abutting Fresh Water Basin. The altitude from the water's edge is 5640 ft and certainly is the conspicuous mountain of Milford Sound New Zealand. By Samuel H. Moreton, 198 Oxford Terrace, Christchurch, N. Z. [Then follows in ink, in a shaky, older hand] Dunbar Sloane Wellington, no. 179. To R. I McIntosh (Moreton) @ $200. [Then in ink, in another hand] C. E. Claydon. [there is also an auctioneer's label, 179, on the backing board]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 483 x 351 mm

Date: 1890

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; Wildey, Alexander Edward, 1888-1967

Reference: A-231-039

Description: Pencil sketch showing Mt Hart, with the saddle and very steep terrain in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 260 x 178 mm

Date: 1883

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: C-140-003

Description: Shows a view of a lake or inlet with snowy peaks in the background. A rowboat containing two figures in in the left foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 245 x 490 mm (sight) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-001-016

Description: Drawing of Bowen Falls Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - S.H.M. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash, 220 x 340 mm.

Date: 1916

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-003-006

Description: A traveller seated on a low hill in the foreground, looking at a small lake amidst towering mountains Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 352 x 251 mm (sight)

Date: 1880 - 1900

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-002-019

Description: A man with a walking stick standing amongst trees, gazing at towering mountains on the other side of a valley. The view is likely to be from part of the Milford Track Other Titles - Mount Edgar, Poseidon River Valley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: S.H.M. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash, 180 x 260 mm

Date: 1916

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921; McIntosh, Rosa Isabella, 1905-1983

Reference: B-003-017

Description: View from Milford looking towards the Bowen Falls to the right and the mountain beyond Previously assumed to be Mitre Peak. However, Mitre Peak does not have a substantial waterfall in the position of the one shown here. Dated from its similarity to other views of Milford Sound dated 1916 Other Titles - Mitre Peak [previous title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 298 x 197 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: B-002-017

Description: View from the lake shore with a tree to the left, mountains across the lake Lake McKerrow is currently part of the Southland Region, not of Otago Region. In the nineteenth century the whole southern area was classified as Otago Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash, 264 x 360 mm

Date: 1890

By: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921

Reference: C-140-004

Description: Shows a view of a lake with distinctive craggy peaks in the background. A rowboat containing two figures is in the left foreground. Other Titles - Lake Manapouri Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 335 x 503 mm (sight) Processing information: Deframed by the Library.