Places

Date: 1860 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-069

Description: Shows some people boating on the river, near a large stratified rocky outcrop on the bank at the left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 190 mm

Date: 1862 - 1863

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s; Hodgkins family

Reference: A-253-035

Description: Shows Clutha River at left, apparently with a flying fox suspended over it. In the centre foreground is a line of washing out to dry, and at right two simple huts. In the background beneath a cliff face is a settlement of possibly 30 or 40 huts. In left distance a range of high hills extends to top of picture. Probably Coal Point, Clyde Has been attributed to William Mathew Hodgkins. While exact location remains to be identified, the scene may be a rare view of the Dunstan (Clyde) diggings. Appears to show a gold mining settlement in Central Otago, an area of interest to William Mathew Hodgkins. The publication "Dunstan Goldfields centennial review" includes a photograph of the official opening of the Hartley and Riley Memorial cairn, taken from a similar viewpoint. Other Titles - Hartley & Riley 1862 Gold strike on the banks of the Molyneux River (now the Clutha River) - between Clyde and Cromwell Inscriptions: Backing board recto - top centre - W.M. Hodgkins / [Other title added by Warren Sisarich]; Backing board recto - bottom left - [Provenance note added by Warren Sisarich] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 245 mm. Provenance: Had been purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, 27 Nov 1994, lot 208, together with lot 210 "In the Matukituki Valley". Both had been framed as a pair by McGregor Wright Gallery, and purchased by Mr & Mrs Austin. Provenance given to "D.S.L." vendor by niece of W.M. Hodgkins; ie the work has Hodgkins family provenance.

Date: 1860 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-009

Description: Shows farm buildings on the bank of the river at the right. The Clutha River was formerly called the Molyneaux Other Titles - Stirling Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 85 x 215 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-031

Description: View from a high point looking down to the Clutha River winding between steep-sided rocks, with the roofs of miners' huts on both banks. Title inscribed in pencil For attribution and provenance see the catalogue record for A-236-023 'The junction' on the Clutha River was the present site of Cromwell. This view is almost certainly of the Cromwell Gorge Other Titles - Molyneux River Clutha Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil and grey wash ; image 151 x 223 mm on sheet 185 x 265 mm

Date: [Between 1890 and 1899]

From: Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album

Reference: PA1-q-105-062

Description: The Clyde No 2 gold dredge under constructionon the Clutha River, near Alexandra, photographed in the 1890s by an unknown photographer. Inscriptions: Verso - top right - 35; Verso - centre - Clyde No 2, Molyneaux R.; Album page - beneath image - Clyde No 2, Clutha R, Alexandra Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned silver gelatin print 140 x 198 mm

Date: [189-?]

From: Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album

Reference: PA1-q-105-028

Description: View of the River Molyneux (now the Clutha River) gold dredge passing beneath a bridge to get to the claim, Alexandra. Photograph taken circa 1880s or 1890s by an unidentified photographer. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - River Molyneux Dredge. Going to the claim. Alexandra. S. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 14.7 x 20.5 cm

Date: 1856

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Buchanan, John, 1819-1898

Reference: E-207-q-036

Description: Shows broad terraced plains descending to the river plain at the left, with hills in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash, 167 x 244 mm

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Sumner, Lyttelton, Central Otago, Lake Wakatipu, Kawarau Gorge, Oamaru, Dunedin, Clutha River. 1870 to 1873]

Reference: E-016-4-066/067

Description: Farmland and farm houses, fences, cattle, the river on the right with two horsemen on a path alongside, two men in a small boat on the river, native bush in the background. A house on the left is named as 'Jas Maitlands', another on the right as 'Fergusons' 'Jas Maitland' seems likely to be James Pillans Maitland, resident magistrate of the Clutha of Tokomairiro districts, and manager of a farm at Kaitangata, near a bend in the Clutha River or on Inch Clutha. William Ferguson also owned a farm on Inch Clutha in the 1870s Other Titles - Maitland Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 88 x 153 mm.

Date: 1863

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

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Nairn, Francis Edward, 1819?-1910

Reference: C-103-103-1

Description: View from quartz rocks at a high standpoint with two goldminers with swags and tools moving towards the towns. Below lies, 'Hartley or lower town' (now Alexandra) at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers, and in the distance 'Dunstan or upper town' (Clyde) Engraving from this sketch published in: Illustrated London News, 14 Nov., 1863 Other Titles - This country is covered with rocks of mica with this view of the quartz running through Other Titles - Clyde, Alexandra Extended Title - In: Mantell, W B D Sketchbook (now disbound) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature and 1863; also bottom right, 'this countruy is covered with rocks of mica...' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash sketch, 229 x 355 mm

Date: 1856

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Buchanan, John, 1819-1898

Reference: E-207-q-040-1

Description: Shows the river junction between hills, with precipitous cliffs at the left. Other Titles - Reconnaissance Survey Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J B Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 114 x 185 mm

Date: 1856

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Buchanan, John, 1819-1898

Reference: E-207-q-033

Description: View up the plain of the Clutha River, possibly at its junction with another river which appears to enter from the left. The view looks towards foothills and mountains to the west. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash 149 x 226 mm

Date: 1862

By: Lysaght, Patrick Joseph, 1808-1889

Reference: C-010-006

Description: View from a high point looking down over the plain of the Clutha (Molyneaux) River, with the township of Dunstan (now Clutha) at the river's edge Inscriptions: Signed: P Lysaght Decr. 1862 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph 280 x 332 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-029

Description: A view across a plain towards a township (Cromwell), with a river to the right, and steep hills (Cromwell Gorge) beyond. A road leads to the town on the left For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023 Modern Cromwell was originally called Junction Township Other Titles - Cromwell Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil ; image 97 x 203 mm on sheet 140 x 225 mm

Date: 1862 - 1864

By: Harrisson, Charles, active 1863

Reference: A-236-030

Description: Looking down onto the site of modern Clyde with the Clutha River in the background and snow-covered Prospect Hill above it to the right. Scattered houses and tents lie across the flat land For attribution and provenance see catalogue record for A-236-023 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing on card : pencil ; image 106 x 203 mm on sheet 140 x 225 mm

Date: 1863

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook

Reference: E-208-q-017

Description: Bird's-eye view looking down on the junction of the Kawarau and Clutha Rivers at Cromwell, with mountains in the background From the original sketch by J Buchanan on the reconnaissance survey of Otago [ca 1860] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash 180 x 246 mm

Date: 1858 - 1862

From: [Buchanan, John] 1819-1898 :Scrapbook [1856-ca 1890]

By: Buchanan, John, 1819-1898

Reference: E-207-q-060

Description: Shows a view along a river between low hills. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 183 x 238 mm

Date: [ca 1899]

From: Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album

Reference: PA1-q-105-022

Description: Gold dredge `Enterprise' on the Clutha River, Alexandra, circa 1899. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - Enterprise dredge. First pontoon with elevator. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: [ca 1899]

From: Creator unknown: Gold Dredges album

Reference: PA1-q-105-024

Description: Gold dredge `Perserverance 2' putting up the elevator, Clutha River, Alexandra, circa 1899. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - left of image - Perseverance No 2 putting up elevator. Another small photo of same further on -; Album page - beneath image - Perserverance. Clutha R. Alexandra Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: between 1873-1882

From: Scott, Mrs :Original and mounted photographic prints

Reference: PAColl-2321-01

Description: Alexandra, on the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers, photographed by Herbert Deveril between 1873-1882. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 26.5 x 35 cm

Date: 1878

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Pennell, Charles, active 1962; Bowmar, Keith, active 1962

Reference: C-158-001

Description: Shows a view of a small South Otago township, with a large house, probably a hotel, at the left. Beyond are smaller buildings beside with a steam train is moving. In the right background is the Presbyterian church. A river (probably the Kaitangata Creek, possibly at the confluence with the Clutha River) flows by on the right occupying much of the right foreground. There are green hills, bare of tree cover in the background, with a road that climbs up and across to the left centre. At the far right is a drilling rig, probably for use in the extraction of coal. The date on the verso of the painting is 1878. The railway first came to Kaitangata in 1876. The first Bridge Hotel burned down before the end of 1877, and rebuilding was not complete until after October 1879. (See Irene Sutton and Bill Proctor, in "History of Kaitangata, 1800s-2004" page 386-387). Aubrey is known to have painted sites after the time he visited them, so it is possible that the hotel shown is the first hotel, burned in 1877. This would tie in with the statement on the verso, that the painting was made from an original photograph (although the whereabouts of the photograph is unknown). But it may be in conflict with the statement on page 121 of Sutton and Proctor, that the scene shows the Bridge Hotel after it had been enlarged towards the end of the 1870s. This may mean an inital enlargement before the 1877 fire, or a partial rebuild in 1878 or 1879. Note on verso states that this is a "painting off the original photo, and where this tavern now stands, and was given by Mr Charlie Pennell in 1962". This statement was written by "Keith Bowmar, first manager of the first tavern under the Clutha Licensing Trust in Kaitangata, 1962". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated]; Verso - top centre - C Aubry 1878 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on board 382 x 478 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.