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Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Te Rangatapu [1847?]
Date: ca 1847
From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.
By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895
Reference: C-103-113
Description: Mount Taranaki in the background to the left, a river mouth in the foreground, with a pā atop an island in the centre of the rivermouth, between cliffs on both shores. There is also a pā on top of the cliff to the left. Possibly identified as Pātea, although the location of Te Rangatapu pā is recorded as Ōhawe. The place named Te Rangatapu pā is no longer occupied, it may have been the name of the pair of pā. Te Rangatapu marae is sited near Ōhawe township - https://maorimaps.com/marae/te-rangatapu accessed 08/04/2024 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash with Chinese white, 82 x 140 mm, on board, 222 x 278 mm Processing information: Description updated 8 April 2024 following information from a researcher.
[Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant] 1820-1895 :N. P. 1847. Obelisk, mouth of Okao River, ...
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
[Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant] 1820-1895 :N. P. 1847. Anaatahua - caves through wh[i...
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
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Soldiers relaxing off duty, South Taranaki?] 13. ...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-028
Description: Soldiers within an earthen rampart, with two standing guard, gazing out across a plain towards low hills. Within the shelter of the rampart are several tents, two with soldiers reclining inside them, one with a standing soldier leaning against it, and another seated soldier in front of it, smoking a pipe. Three rifles are stacked upright together in the centre. Probably a South Taranaki scene, the drawings are mounted in the album in chronolical order and those immediately before and after are of Taranaki Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 64 x 115 mm
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Enjoying a pipe and a book, South Taranaki or Wan...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-030
Description: The interior of a hut, with a soldier reading and smoking a pipe, the remains of a meal, including alcohol in front of him. He is seated at a large table, with a form along one side, suggesting that the room may be part of soldiers' barracks. Another room is visible to the left, with a thatched entranceway protruding into the main room. A sheathed sword and gun in its holster and another container are hanging from a beam and a skylight is propped open with a long stick. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 132 x 147 mm
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Mount Egmont or Taranaki 8000 ft high 12 miles dis...
Date: 1847
From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference: A-292-056
Description: Mount Taranaki rising from its surrounding plain, with a small plain carved out by a river at a lower level in the foreground. A Maori camp is the the foreground, with about a dozen Maori seated around a fire outside three whare. Two large flax bushes on the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets 163 x 184 & 163 x 190 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Military encampment, Taranaki, June? 1865]
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-029
Description: A large military camp in a broad plain, with hills beyond. In the centre, surrounded by tents, is an earth rampart, possibly the same as that shown in the previous picture, A-277-028, Soldiers relaxing off duty. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour, 83 x 161 mm
Diary
Date: 7-13 Aug 1844, 28 Nov 1844, 16 Dec 1846-9 Jan 1847, 17-19 Apr 1847
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-1218
Description: Diary entries for 16 December 1846 through to 9 January 1847, and 17-19 April 1847, which includes detailed descriptions of activities around New Plymouth and at Maori settlements to the south (the 18-20 December portions of which are also copied into MS-1217). Included are long passages of reminiscences recounted to McLean by a Mr Bosworth whose trading post near Patea McLean stayed with for several days, from 22-24 December, on the way south. Bosworth had been living in New Zealand for 19 years and McLean was fascinated by his fund of stories. Included are loose pages with rough notes giving diary entries and lists of documents for late 1844. Other - The 1846 entries are transcribed in MS-1284, and the 1847 entries in MS-1285 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Maori smoking a pipe. South Taranaki? May 1865?]
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-027
Description: Maori man seated on the ground, seen in profile, wrapped in a blanket and smoking a pipe Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 64 x 115 mm (arched top)
Diary, outwards letters and accounts
Date: Apr-Oct 1845, 12 Nov-21 Dec 1846
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-1217
Description: Includes diary entries for 12-14 November and 18-19 December 1846, describing a journey amongst Maori settlements to the south of New Plymouth, and activities in and around New Plymouth. Also includes drafts of instructions to Henry Halse, his subordinate at New Plymouth, and drafts of reports to his superior. At the back of the book are a record of his 1845 accounts with William Black for various supplies. The following volume, MS-1218, contains another draft of the same diary entries for December, but starting earlier, and going right through to 9 January 1847. Other - Entries from 13 November 1846 are transcribed in MS-1287. There is some duplication with entries in MS-1218 Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Holograph
Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :[March on the beach between Wanganui and Taranaki. ...
Date: 1865
From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]
By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898
Reference: E-047-q-038
Description: View looking north up the beach towards Mount Taranaki and the cliffs of South Taranaki, with foot soldiers marching and cavalry ahead and to the right. The watercolour is a copy of a watercolour by Colonel Edward Arthur Williams held by the Hocken Library and entitled A stroll on the beach - Mt Egmont in the distance, 16 February 65. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm
Undated letter from Aperahama to McLean
Date: [ca 1850-1869]
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0702A-08
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).
Letter from Mohi Ngaponga to McLean
Date: 8 Sep 1873
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0697E-01
Description: Letter is dated 1873 even though Ngaponga died in 1871 Quantity: 1 piece (3 pages on 1 leaf).
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Boats on the Waitotara (?) River, 1865]
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-031
Description: Looking inland towards a range of hills and mountains, including Mount Taranaki at some distance, with a small unoccupied canoe and a dinghy with a sail carrying three people from one bank to the other. Two more small boats further up the river, and, in the distance, a house and a row of cabbage trees. Likely to be a river in South Taranaki, or North of Wanganui, although not as far north as the Patea River, given the small size of Mount Taranaki in the distance. Possibly the Waitotara River. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 97 x 137 mm
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Goat grazing beside soldiers' tents, Taranaki May...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-026
Description: Mount Taranaki in the background of a scene in a military camp with a white goat (or possibly a bullock?) to the left, three tents and a mounted gun. In the foreground a man is carrying water. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & watercolour over pencil, 64 x 115 mm
Artist unknown :[Album of an officer. Houses behind a fence and trees. South Taranaki o...
Date: 1865
From: Artist unknown :[Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867
Reference: A-277-032
Description: Two large wooden houses with established gardens, washing hanging on a line. Possibly Wanganui or South Taranaki. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & wash, 99 x 167 mm
Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :The boys on the way to New Plymouth [1847]
Date: 1847
From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850
By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902
Reference: A-292-059
Description: A group of Maori men around a camp fire, outside the entrance to a house, on their way from Wanganui to New Plymouth. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 228 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].
Undated letter from Aperahama Parea (Te Ihupuku) to McLean
Date: [ca 1850-1869]
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0702A-09
Description: Quantity: 1 piece (2 pages on 1 leaf).
Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898 :Te Ua Horopapara, Kianga at Matakaka, 50 miles south of ...
Date: 1865
From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]
By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898
Reference: E-294-134/135
Description: An extensive view of a headland and the Taranaki coast, with a fenced Maori village with a few houses and a path leading up to it, in the left foreground Other Titles - Kainga at Matakaha Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook] 1864-1865. p.134 to 135 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 246 mm
Letter from Aperahama to Te Kupa
Date: Feb [ca 1850-1869]
From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0702A-07
Description: Letter dated Thurs, Feb and addressed Warea Quantity: 1 piece (1 page on 1 leaf).