Places

Date: 1855 - 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :Fragmentary sketches & odds & ends; sketches in Taranaki New Zealand 1856 / W.S. New Zealand rough sketches, 1856.

Reference: E-441-032

Description: Five men hauling a canoe Inscriptions: Recto - centre - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 75 x 33 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. 1st series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-452-f-011-2

Description: A seated Maori man, holding a taiaha (spear). He is wearing a flax rain cape over European clothes, has short hair and moko Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 240 mm

Date: 1921

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: A-174-013

Description: View near New Plymouth, with farmland with cows, and some remnants of bush, Mount Egmont in the background Two more place names added at different times to foot of picture. Both are illegeible. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 360 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-024/025

Description: Looking north along the Taranaki coast, close to New Plymouth, with low bush and part of a garden to the right and several ships and small boats at sea in the middle distance. A beached ship, possibly the Lord Worsley, can be seen further along the coast Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 24 to25 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 97 x 345 mm (double page spread)

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-037-2

Description: View of Mount Taranaki from the north, seen from a beach Tahua is the Maori word for sandhill Other Titles - Tahua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 98 x 220 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-017-2

Description: Two tree ferns growing close together Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 77 x 77 mm

Date: 1977

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: A-279-001

Description: Cartoon likening the defeat of Taranaki by the British Lions rugby team, 1977, to the inability of the local beef industry to counter overseas takeovers Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 305 x 380 mm Provenance: Donation: Gear Meat Company, 1982

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-017-3

Description: A study of the leaves of the cabbage tree and of its crown Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 141 x 241 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-013-2

Description: Several young men working on the trunk of a large tree, while others hold firebrands and fire rages in the bush beyond. A flock of birds are in the sky, top left Very similar to 'Burning the bush, Taranaki, 1856' a watercolour at E-453-f-008. 'Bush burning' has a similar trunk fallen across the centre and a man with a firebrand, with the fire just behind the people and the large trunk. The arrangement of the figures and of some surrounding trees and plants is different in 'Burning the bush' and a stronger atmosphere of fear of the fire is present in the latter. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash 140 x 200 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-008-2

Description: Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal view of a young man, dressed in European clothes, with a blanket around his shoulders, a shark's tooth earring in his left ear Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 160 x 125 mm

Date: 1880

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-226-021

Description: Looking south along the coastline, with smow-clad Mount Taranaki in the background, the sea cliffs in the foreground. The view is framed by a tall tree on the right. A fence runs along the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bears a printed label: Prepared millboard. Windsor and Newton Limited ... Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on millboard 252 x 355 mm

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-011/012

Description: Shows a view from the sea, of the coastline at New Plymouth, showing the Sugar Loaves. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on pages of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch on double page spread 126 x 346 mm.

Date: 1884 - 1886

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Harper, Laura, 1833-1887; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-377

Description: Contains sketches from a visit to Rotorua 1884 to 1886. Also includes sketches of Lake Tarawera, Ohinemutu, Green Lake, Blue Lake, Wairoa, Picton, Auckland, Mount Egmont. Also contains some sketches possibly by Laura Harper. Mount Tarawera erupted in 1886. Inscriptions: Pages are numbered at top left, and title is given below image. See shelf list for details of works attributed to Laura Harper.(Nos. 10,19,20,27,36,37,39-43,45,50.) Laura (Taylor) Harper was a sister of Mary Catherine (Taylor) Medley, and died in 1887. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 29 pencil, and 20 pencil & watercolour works, in sketchbook 135 x 220 mm.

Date: 1848

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

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

Reference: C-103-125-3

Description: The thigh bone and another bone of a large moa Mantell was in the area between Wellington and New Plymouth in 1845. The name Puketapu is not in modern use in these areas. Other moa bones recorded by Mantell were found in the New Plymouth area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 194 x 126 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-012-2

Description: A frontal portrait, full-length, showing a young Maori man seated, a cloak wrapped around him. He has a kerchief tied around his neck and has a slight moustache and beard. Extended Title - This tender & classical drawing was done just after my bush falling. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date, signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 195 x 170 mm

Date: 1865

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-142

Description: A curving stream between low hills, with the sea in the distance. A small house or church possibly with with gabled upstairs windows stands in the middle distance, surrounded by trees Other Titles - [House beside a river, probably near New Plymouth. Former title] Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.142 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, 97 x 173 mm

Date: 1855 - 1856

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

Reference: E-441

Description: Views of New Plymouth, Taranaki, Maori portraits (including portraits of Rawiri & Tomati), Maori canoes & artifacts, vegetation, Auckland, ships Chatham, Pandora & Nelson See child records details of titles, media and sizes The ship Chatham "Chatham, ship off New Plymouth" is a barque, not the Chatham in which Vancouver circumnavigated the world in the late eighteenth century. This sketchbook contains many of the preliminary sketches for the more finished studio drawings in the Library's two large albums, E-452-f & E-453-f Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) (33 pencil & watercolour, 15 pencil in album stored with notebook in half blue morocco & linen case). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, pencil page size 145 x 223 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull in May 1913 from Sydney dealers Angus & Robertson, who had purchased this diary and sketchbook from the artist in London, along with the sketches now located at E-452-f and E-453-f. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Formerly MS Strutt / 1855-56 / P. Transferred to DPP, Sept, 1989.

Date: 1847

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: C-103-039-1

Description: Looking south along the Taranaki coastline past the mouth of the Waiwhakaiho Stream, with the Sugar Loaf Islands in the distance Formerly attributed to Walter Mantell, this drawing appears to be the work of his fellow-traveller Frank Nairn. Both the style and the handwriting resemble those of Nairn Other Titles - Waiwhakaiho Walter Mantell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 172 x 219 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-037-3

Description: Looking south along the coastline from a point north of New Plymouth with the Sugar Loaf Rocks in the distance Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 62 x 210 mm

Date: 1855 - 1856

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

Reference: E-442

Description: 2 sketches at back of volume showing cows and horses - preliminary sketches for Strutt's well-known Australian bush-fire painting "Black Thursday" Largely notes of expenditure in New Zealand. Contains only 2 sketches, Other Titles - Black Thursday [preliminary sketches]; 1856 New Zealand [cover title]; 1855 New Zealand notes expenditure &c &c [end-paper title] Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) MS notes in notebook, with pencil drawings, housed with sketchbook in half blue morocco & linen case. Physical Description: 2 pencil drawings & holograph notes in ink & pencil, in note-book, embossed morocco binding, page size 83 x 124 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull in May 1913 from Sydney dealers Angus and Robertson. They had purchased this diary (and the sketchbook at E-441) along with the albums at E-452-f and E-453-f from the artist in London. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - with sketchbook, April 1989.