Places

Date: 1855 - 1870

Reference: B-187-007

Description: Shows a broad view looking out towards the sea, possibly from Paihia in the direction of Kororareka, or Russell. In the foreground is the manicured lawn of the Mission House, where a woman is walking. A Maori(?) figure, possibly a gardener, can also be seen. There are cabbage trees and houses in view. The leaves of a palm tree are in the immediate foreground on the right The number of dwellings in view suggest the work dates from the 1860s. Other works held in the collections (e.g. A-048-007) suggest the Mission House in question is the one at Paihia Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View from [lawn?] Mission House [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 212 x 308 mm

Date: 1858

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: A-459-011

Description: A view of the shoreline at Paihia, showing the developing settlement. The church and the mission house can be seen, as well as other small houses dotting the foreshore. Two women and a child paddle in the water. A flag is seen at the left of the painting See also E-137-q-002, 'Paihia Bay of Islands N.Z. from John Fox's point 1860' by Hutton, which shows a very similar scene from almost the same perspective The inscription lower right might also include the month 'Jan' as part of the date, but it is very faint and unclear Other Titles - Islands Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Paihia Bay of Isles. [Jan?] 1858 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 185 x 275 mm

Date: 1857 - 1858

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Rodewald, Henry Marion, 1900-1988; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-465-016

Description: A view of Thomas Chapman's Mission residence, called Wharekahu, about December 1857-January 1858, when he and his wife Anne were visited by John Kinder. The house is wooden with a shingle roof, and is surrounded by a well-established garden, including willow trees and flax bushes Accompanied by a photocopied Certificate of Authentication, originally adhered to the back of the painting, by Brian Groshinski, then Managing Director of McArthur Fine Arts Ltd, Auckland (undated) See also A-113-031, another Kinder drawing of Reverend Chapman's Mission house at the Ngae, Roturua, done in 1858, also from the album belonging to Harry Rodewald Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Wharekahu Maketu / Revd T Chapman's [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome ink and wash on paper, 175 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchase: Brian Groshinski, Australia, July 2014. Prior to purchase, part of a large album owned by NZ collector, Mr H.M. Rodewald. Album was dismantled in the 1980s by current vendor and contents sold separtately since then

Date: 1844 - 1846

From: [Selwyn, George Augustus], 1809-1878 :[Three watercolours. 1. Purewa Creek, Auckland Ch., Flying Fish and Marian, Okahu N. Village. 1840s; 2. Purewa [and first St John's College] ca 1845; 3. Putiki, Island of Waiheke. 1840s]

Reference: A-439-007

Description: Shows a view of the group of wooden buildings making up the first Auckland buildings of St John's College. Shows a two-storeyed building in the right foreground, with several figures sitting and standing in front of it, a row of four houses nearby and further houses at the far left, with fences linking the buildings over the cleared land. At the river is a stream, probably Purewa Creek and to the west, hilltops including Mt Wellington and a higher flat plateau in the distance (possibly Mount Hobson). See also a sketch of the same subject, from the same vantage point, by Thomas Biddulph Hutton, at Auckland Art Gallery, accession number 1939/17/1. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 148 x 222 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878

Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084

Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm

Date: 1852 - 1880 - 1857 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-006

Description: Shows interior of church with Minister giving sermon, and congregation standing or sitting on floor. Features red columns and carved rafters. Lantern slide after Barraud's "Interior of Otake church, New Zealand", lithograph, published by Day & Son, London, 1852. Dating: the firm W E & F Newton was based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden frame) between 1852 and 1857 Other Titles - Interior of Otake church, New Zealand Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 77 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1844 - 1847

From: Angas, George French 1822-1886 :The New Zealanders Illustrated. London, Thomas McLean, 1847.

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: PUBL-0014-37

Description: A seated Maori couple with a background of a carved whare. The man, To Ngaporutu has a moko and is wearing a greenstone earring and a flax leaf rain cloak. His wife, seated on his right, is in a woven flax korowai cloak and has an albatross feather ear adornment. She has a chin moko and crosses marked on her cheek and forehead. The pair were residents of the Waitomo area, with Rihe coming from the Wanganui area. Both were recent converts to Christianity. On the right side, another seated man and woman, of Waikato, ther man "Ngawhea" from the Kawhia area had not been converted to Christianity; the woman, Nga Miho was a 'celebrated priestess, and wife of Rangitautaea, the old chief of Ahuahu, who was wounded at Taranaki'. The woman is wearing a blanket, the man a flax rain cloak. Angas visited New Zealand in 1844. According to Angas's text, Nga Miho means 'the teeth'. However the usual Maori word for teeth is niho. Other Titles - Ngati Maniapoto Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, hand-coloured 550 x 360 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-004

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Iwikau, a Maori man, from Wakapuaka pa, near Nelson Iwikau's wife, Hingatu, and child are shown in another portrait in this group (A-286-005) See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, vo.23, no.1 May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. Iwikau is likely to have been converted by the Rev. Charles Reay of Nelson Other Titles - Iwikau. Wakapuaka. Remarkable for his piety. 1843? Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. (Coates, I. Remarkable for his piety...). Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).

Date: 1880 - 1900

Reference: PA3-0367

Description: A card showing images from Opotiki in memory of Carl Sylvius Volker. Comprises: `Rev Volkner's house', `Rev Volkner's church', Memorial gravestone of Rev Volkner, `The Gallows Tree', 'Stern-post of war canoe', Baler, 'Head-gear of war canoe', and photograph of Opotiki Inscriptions: Recto - Memories of a martyr Carl Sylvius Volkner born in Kassel, Germany, trained as a missionary and was one of several missionaries sent to New Zealand by the North German Missionary Society. He arrived in New Zealand August 1849 and initially worked in Taranaki with fellow German Protestant missionaries before offering his services to the Church Missionary Society (1852). He took charge of the CMS mision station at Opotiki (August 1861). Despite hostilities and ignoring warnings he remained at Opotiki until 1865, when he was taken prisoner , charged with being a spy and was taken to a willow tree and hanged. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1830 - 1880 - 1852 - 1832 - 1890 - 1857

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-008

Description: Shows missionary settlement at Rangihoua, Bay of Islands. After an almost identical image (which however has 2 larger sailing ships in the foreground) "Church missionary settlement at Rangihoua, N.Z.", published in Church Missionary Quarterly Papers, midsummer 1832, no. 66, cover page; and, "[Missionary settlement at Rangihoua on the North side of the Bay of Islands c.1830]", an oil painting in the Rex Nan Kivell collection. This latter also features two vessels in foreground sea. Dating: the firm W E & F Newton (stamped on the wooden frame) was based at 3 Fleet Street from 1852 to 1857 Other Titles - Church missionary settlement at Rangihoua Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 30 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1939

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-10309-G

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 3.25 x 4.25 inches

Date: [191-?]

From: Creator of Collection Unknown : Photographs of Otaki and Bay of Islands towns

Reference: PAColl-7584-01

Description: Jubilee pole at Otaki to commemorate 40 years of the Christian mission on the Kapiti Coast, with the monument to Te Rauparaha in the background. Photograph taken circa 1910s, by an unidentified photographer. Source of descriptive information - Notes on print and descriptive record for APG-0102-1/2 Inscriptions: Verso - "Jubilee" pole of the Maori Christian Mission at Otaki. Te Rauparahas monument near by The pole was erected in 1880 and was replaced by another monument in 1927. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 15.3 x 10.8 cm

Date: 1845

From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph 1824-1886 :Book of New Zealand sketches. Purewa, 1845, 1860.

By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886

Reference: E-137-q-008

Description: An interior view, with a fireplace to the left, a pot cooking on it, cupboards and a door in the background. A young Maori man is leaning against the mantelpiece, another smoking a pipe is standing beside a chair, and two others, possibly girls, are seated playing knucklebones, or a similar game, in the background. The scene is at the mission school at Waimate North. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 16. The present inhabitants of the Bachelors men room. Waimate. Dec.r. 1 1845 [in ink over pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 224 x 283 mm

Date: 8 May 1903

From: Duncan, Russell James, 1855-1946 :Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-o-141-89

Description: Site of John King's house at Te Puna, Bay of Islands, photographed 3 May 1903 by Russell James Duncan. Inscriptions: Mount recto - above image - #89 Bay of Islands; Mount recto - beneath image - Te Puna. Where missionaries landed. Dec 1814. Site of Mr John King's house where handkerchief is laid.; Mount verso - bottom right - Taken by Russell Duncan, 8 May 1903 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Toned gelatin silver print 14.1 x 20.4 cm, mounted on album page

Date: Oct 1950

From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs

Reference: WA-25862-F

Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 1/2 plate

Date: [ca 1860]

From: Urquhart album

By: Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PA1-q-250-17

Description: Beach front scene at Kohimarama, Auckland, circa 1860, with Bishop Selwyn's Melanesian Mission station. Two waka, and a group of whare, are visible in the foreground. Photograph taken by John Nicol Crombie. Image, and information regarding it, in "Auckland through a Victorian Lens" by William Main, 1977, page 27. Inscriptions: Album page - Kohimarama near Auckland NZ Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 16.5 x 21.3 cm, mounted on card Processing information: Record was updated on 15 August 2022 to allow the attached digital surrogate to be purchasable.

Date: 1884 - 1851

From: Church Missionary Gleaner for 1884.

Reference: PUBL-0006-1884-022

Description: A scene near Hauraki, 9 April 1851, showing Archdeacon Brown with members of the Tauranga tribes, an orator in the centre, gesturing with an upraised left arm, a spear in his right hand, and another Church Missionary Society missionary negotiating for local tribes. A stream runs between the two groups. First published in the Church Missionary Gleaner, No. 5, May 1852, p. 49. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) wood engraving. Physical Description: Wood engraving 100 x 140 mm

Date: 1835 - 1834

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867

Reference: PUBL-0031-1835-03

Description: Looking along the beach at Paihia, with the hills to the left, houses on the flat land and two waka on the beach and in the water. The house with dormer windows, second from right, is William Williams' house Engraved from a pencil drawing by Henry Williams titled [Paihia, 1834 or 1835]. Alexander Turnbull Library reference number A-161-008. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 96 x 150 mm

Date: 1814 - 1964

By: Morgan, Jack, active 1961-1966; Weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: B-077-002

Description: Samuel Marsden behind a makeshift pulpit, with the Bible, preaching to a group of Maori and Europeans, with a bay behind him on the left, with canoes and a European ship (the Active), and on the right Rangihoua, a hilltop pa. The Maori chief Ruatara is standing in uniform to the right of Marsden and in the left foreground is Korokoro, dressed in the regimental uniform given him by Governor Maquarie of New South Wales. This reconstruction was painted to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1st Christian sermon in New Zealand, and was commissioned to be published in the Weekly News, Auckland, December 16th 1964 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 380 x 280 mm

Date: 1900

From: O'Reilly, Patrick :Photographs of Maori and church groups

Reference: PAColl-1573-5

Description: Group of Maori and Pakeha children, and nuns, aboard the Otaki Convent Coach in 1900. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Verso - Otaki. Mission School Coach Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).