Places

Date: 1862

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-010

Description: Shows cranes and containers at Port Cooper, Lyttelton Harbour, 1862 Inscriptions: Recto - opposite page: Port Cooper Lyttelton NZ 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 175 x 260 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-072

Description: The upper image shows a small wooden building, described as 'Isaac's office' with the sign Cookson & Bowler on the side of it. It is viewed from one end, and has a picket fence and another small house beyond it. In the lower half is the another small wooden dwelling. It is seen from the front and has two doors and two windows, with steps leading up a bank to the two doors. The left-hand side is marked ITC [Isaac Thomas Cookson], the right WJH [William John Warburton Hamilton]. The lower drawing is also annotated 'Our first house. We were here 5 months from September 6th 1851 to February 6th 1852' Attribution of this sketchbook to Janetta Maria Cookson based on this sketch since Cookson's wife was with him in Lyttelton at this date. She was the daughter of a baronet, Sir Matthew Ridley. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Our first home. We were here 5 months from September 6th 1851 to February 6th 1852.. House is identified as belonging to Isaac Cookson (left-hand side), and W J Hamilton (right-hand side). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash, 170 x 225 mm, tipped into sketchbook.

Date: 1862 - 1863

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-001

Description: Brief details of itinerary of journey by sea from Lyttelton to England via Melbourne, dated Lyttelton October 1862 to Marseilles, January 1863. The artist departed Lyttelton on 15 October aboard the Queen, to Port Chalmers 16th, to Bluff aboard City of Hobart 17th, to Victoria 25th, staying with the Puckle family at Flemington 27th to 26th November, to Ceylon on ship Madras and on to Europe. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (hand writing). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook 185 x 260 mm

Date: 1862

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-079

Description: Shows the house of Isaac and Janetta Maria Cookson. It has two chimneys. An external stairway leads down from the attic of the left portion, and there is a verandah at the far left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash, 164 x 224 mm, tipped into sketchbook.

Date: 1852 - 1854

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-036

Description: View from Lyttelton, looking towards Quail Island and Governors Bay, showing several houses and their fenced in gardens in the foreground. There is washing hanging on a line behind a house to the left. One house to the right is larger with dormer windows in an upper storey and a verandah and large garden For attribution and provenance see A-048-027 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-041

Description: A single-storied house with verandah and verandah posts across its front, set at the base of bush-clad hills on rising land. There is another structure, either a shed or dog-kennel at a lower point to the left For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. The house, called Glencarrig by Aylmer, still stands in Percy Street, Akaroa. It was much altered in the later nineteenth century Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-045

Description: Interior of Rangiatea church, Otaki, looking from near the entrance towards the chancel windows. A Maori woman and a child, both dressed in blankets, are standing just inside the door contemplating the church. Title and date inscribed in pencil on mount. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Small detail of rafter pattern from church. Also inscribed: "40 high/36 wide/80 long" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing mounted on paper ; pencil and wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm on mount 204 x 277 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-048-046

Description: View looking down onto Lake Rotorua, with Mokoia in the distance. The Ohinemutu peninsula is on the right with steam rising from amongst the Maori whare. In the foreground is a whare on the left, a palisade and several Maori figures. Probably copied from a drawing by John Johnson or a copy of that drawing by Cuthbert Clarke. See Cuthbert Clarke;s 'Ohinemotu. From an outline by Dr Johnson [1849]' a conte drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 19954, folio 29, no. 31) of which the Turnbull holds a photograph. The same image was reproduced as a wood engraving in Sir George Grey's 'Polynesian Mythology' (London, 1855). Title from inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see A-048-027..

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-031

Description: View of Lyttelton harbour, looking towards Quail Island and Governor's Bay from Lyttelton township. There are several houses and a gully in the foreground and ships in the harbour. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date from pencil inscription; Verso - "View from own window" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-029

Description: Shows a view looking west over the houses in Lyttelton, with a small section of the harbour shown at the left. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title and date from inscription on verso Inscriptions: Verso - Identifies "the house the back of which is prominent in the sepia sketch [A-048-030] - where our children are now - ours is about 10 yards higher up"; also "Mr Longden's house which we have taken", and several other locations; Verso - date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 227 x 364 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: B-064-021

Description: A panoramic view with the Holy Trinity Church (built 1853 and pulled down in 1854) standing alone behind the main cluster of buildings in Lyttelton township. Quail Island is on the far right in the harbour. The entrance to the harbour is not visible For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date from pencil inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 505 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-043

Description: Rangiatea church, with surrounding houses, trees and hills. Compare very similar lithograph in: Church missionary intelligencer 1858-1859, and Mission life, 1868 (see file prints). On verso; Unfinished sketch of same scene entitled; Otaki native church & mission station... (A048/044). For attribution and provenance see A-048/027 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing mounted on paper; pencil 175 x 252 mm on mount 210 x 280 mm

Date: 1852

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: C-064-003

Description: View from the top of Cave Rock looking along Scarborough Beach to the left, the hills and flat land of Sumner and along Sumner Beach to the right. There are five or six houses against the hill, centre and right. A piece of Cave Rock protrudes in the foreground. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title from inscription Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 755 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-035/036

Description: Shows kauri forest in the foreground, with Manukau Harbour and the Heads in the distance. The forest is part of Titirangi, with Little Muddy Creek below and Laingholm in the centre. The house shown on the right is likely to be the first farmhouse in the area, that of John Bishop and family. There are also several smaller houses or farm buildings in the right middle distance Other Titles - ... Manukau Heads Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Kauri Forest Manaukau Heads August 1861; Recto - top centre - 1861 Manaukau Heads Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 520 mm (double-page spread)

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-030

Description: Shows a view looking south east at Lyttelton Harbour, with the houses of Lyttelton in the foreground, Quail Island and the hills above Teddington in the distance. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title from inscription Inscriptions: Verso - "The view is from the verandah of our little house"; "cottage and children are in "; Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash 226 x 330 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-049/050

Description: A bridge over a stream to the right, with the stream curving round towards a mill building in the centre left. On the far left is a small church on top of a promontory. Dense bush in the background The view is taken from the village end of the Pauatahanui Bridge. The church on the left is on the site of St Alban's Church The church is the original interdenomination chapel at Pauatahanui, later the site of St Alban's church Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, double-page spread, in sketchbook 185 x 530 mm

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-013/014

Description: A scene at Lyttelton Harbour showing several sailing vessels at sea Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Port Cooper in 1861 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double-page spread). Physical Description: Pencil & wash 175 x 520 mm.

Date: 1861

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-051/052

Description: View from the Paremata side of Porirua Harbour, looking towards Whitirea Peninsula and Mana, with a wooden structure in the foreground and the buildings of Toms' whaling station in the background. 'Old Camp' is marked. The settlement on the opposite headland may be Kaiaua or Kahotea, one of several old Ngati Toa kainga along that shoreline. However it seems more likely to be European houses by 1861. The house of Lieutenant William Servantes was at the entrance to the harbour and is likely to be one of those shown at the foot of the hill opposite in the left-hand side of the view. The ruins of the Paremata Barracks are visible on the right-hand side, across the water, to the right of the harbour entrance Other Titles - December Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, double-page spread, in sketchbook 185 x 530 mm