Places

Date: 1847

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-025-7

Description: An obelisk-shaped rock formation at the South Taranaki coastline One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-130/131

Description: Shows Lake Ellesmere (Waihora) from the spit, looking north towards Banks Peninsula Inscriptions: Recto - top right - Te taumutu. Ngatikaurere . Tohu - Kaiapoi. Tiraroa Taumutu Ahupatiki; Recto - bottom right - At Pureora the mountains come within 500 yds of the sea. Also right centre. N. shore. Channel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (double page spread)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-157

Description: Shows a Maori man sitting on a beach, possibly near the head of Lyttelton Harbour, looking towards Adderley Head and the hills of Port Levy. There is a flax plant on the left. The location of George Rhodes' station at Purau, across Lyttelton Harbour, is indicated Inscriptions: Recto - Top of page: Aug 30 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-072

Description: An extensive coastal view not far from Waitaki, looking south. A distinctive hill with 3 peaks is marked as '3 points', another resembling an elephant's back as Mt Elephant Other Titles - Waitaki Thurs 8 1/2 am 26 Oct [1848] Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 26 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-033

Description: View from Porirua across low hills and water towards Pautahanui Inlet. A road curves around in the right foreground Note on back: 12 miles N.W. of Wellington. Porirua Harbour, part of. Other Titles - Porirua towards Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in ink. Also in pencil, below and to the right of the ink title: Porirua 16 Mar 50 looking towards Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 104 x 159 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell family :Maps

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbbd/[ca.1848]/Acc.343

Description: Manuscript map with cadastral information showing land offered for sale by Aperahawa, Raharuha and party, north of Devon Road between the Waiongana and the Mangaoraka Streams, Waitara, New Plymouth. Shows the boundary continuing along Pakohenui River and Pukeowaka, two areas of land 'left to Whaitere', the Port Nicholson boundary, Ngahuinga settlement, Mahoetahi Pa, Manukau, Morere, Bele Block, Hua Block, te Putaatutonga and the beach. Pencil annotation on map 'Mantell'. Title added in pencil Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 40 x 25 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Mantell family Papers MS-Group-0305.

Date: 1847 - 1828

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-025-3

Description: Looking north along the Taranaki coast towards two holes in the seaside rocks One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1858

From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Forrest, Isabel K, active 1969; Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916

Reference: E-059-q-065

Description: View along Invercargill's main street showing a number of houses and businesses. The earliest known view of Invercargill Between 1969, the time of acquisition by the Library, and 2010, attributed to W B D Mantell, based on handwriting, style of drawing and the fact that Mantell worked with Douglas, and was involved in the early settlement of Invercargill. However Mantell was in England in 1858, the date of this drawing. The drawing was earlier owned by Gerhard Mueller, who arrived in New Zealand in 1859, the year after this drawing was made. The `Pearson' whose house is drawn is W H Pearson, Commissioner of Lands, 1857-1884. `Grief' the butcher was J M Grieve. The Albion Hotel was also known as Linds Accommodation House. Other Titles - Douglas, Charles Edward Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pen and ink. Along top, identifications of buildings include Whites store, Collins store, Collins Goods, Grief Butcher, Pearsons House, Butchershop, Royal Hotel. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) loose in group of works by Charles Edward Douglas. Physical Description: Ink on brown paper, 150 x 210 mm.

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-044

Description: View from a high rocky point above Lake Forsyth, Canterbury, looking south along the beach line, above the adjacent Lake Ellesmere, with the Maori village Wairewa (on the spit of land between the two lakes) outlined in the middle distance. The line of the Southern Alps can be seen in the background Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Sept 23 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-079

Description: Shows a small farmhouse surrounded by a fence on a plain, with cabbage trees especially on a slope to the right and with hills in the background Suisted's station was called Goodwood Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 27 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-049

Description: Elevated whata (food storage platforms) with low fences, two dwellings, and, in the left distance, the remains of an earlier pa, including the two Ti (cabbage) trees referred to in the name of the pa. People seated and standing around the pa. Shows Te Wai te Rua Ti pa, near Temuka Other Titles - Te Wai a te rua ti Pa, near Temuka Inscriptions: Recto - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 127 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Te Wharekorari, active 1848

Reference: E-333-037

Description: Map drawn by Te Wharekorari for W. B. D. Mantell in 1848 showing the South Island lakes Ohau, Pukaki, and Tekapo and the rivers draining and filling them. It is probable that Te Wharekorari drew the lines of the map and dictated the Maori names to Mantell, who recorded them in the correct areas. Other Titles - Tekapo From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page 135 x 195 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-009

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Moeraki, past the mouth of the Kakanui River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 69 x 200 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-048

Description: Two drawings and dairy notes on one page. On the left, is a coastal scene looking south, with the survey camp tents on the beach, and a caricature of Alfred Wills in a dunce's cap in the foreground, inscribed Rakaia, Sun 1 Oct and 'By caricaturing only himself a man man render himself ridiculous but not odious.' Top right, diary notes for 1 October. Bottom right, another beach scene with a tent, looking north towards a cliff, with the name Kauwaukakao, corrected to Tauwaukakao 2 Oct. Inscriptions: Recto - Bottom sketch: note beside caricature reads: By caricaturing only himself a man may render himself ridiculous but not odious Quantity: 2 drawing(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-080

Description: Several images on one pagle. At the top of the page, two shacks and a cabbage tree, 'Smith's station' at the mouth of the Waianakarua, looking inland, with the river to the right. Left, below that, Taiaroa standing on the beach, staff in hand, appearing to be speaking, observed by several people lying down. The title refers to Rauparaha's conquest of the east coast and to the local paramount chief's defiance while Rauparaha is safely in the North Island on Kapiti. Below on the right, three drawings of the same man's head in a bonnet, and a right-angles, a coastal view looking north along the beach from Onekakara, Moeraki, with several canoes pulled up on shore to the left. At the bottom left of the page, a cryptic drawing possibly of a rocky outcrop, titled Penal Sett. Moeraki, possibly refering to the number of ex-convicts amongst the whalers at Moeraki Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Oct 28 Quantity: 5 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 200 mm (page size)

Date: 1844

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-002-5

Description: View from the Otaki area looking inland towards the Tararua Range. A row of palisades, some in water, are in the foreground and a Maori figure is seated to the left. Mantell was at Otaki on 3 July 1844. On the reverse of the left section of C-103-002-4 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & wash, 126 x 216 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-021-5

Description: A small Gothic-style chapel with three lancet windows in its east wall, and a slender steeple at the west end. It is on the cliffs around Auckland Harbour. The church is St Stephen's Chapel at Judge's Bay. H. M. S. Hazard can be seen in the distance in the harbour Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 125 mm

Date: 1852

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-098-1

Description: Shows an extensive plain and occasional conical hills, with a cluster of houses at the foot of the hills just right of centre. Spread across two pages of a sketchbook. Part of W B D Mantell's Scrapbook (C-103) "Betterwood" is a joke of Mantell's A similar but not identical panorama, from a different angle, showing Goodwood, is on six pages of Mantell's sketchbook E-332, with titles From Mount Royal, 1, 2 and 3. Reference numbers are E-332-006/007, E-332-008/009 and E-332-012/013 Other Titles - Mt Watkin. Rocky mountains. Carte Blanche, Pique, Repique, Mt Charles, Mt Royal Inscriptions: Recto - SDNM i. e. Southern District New Munster, now known as Otago, South Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 65 x 35 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-014

Description: View along the hills of the beachline Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 46 x 97 mm