Places

Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 23 Dec 1841-30 Jun 1846

By: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-0129-0132

Description: The diaries give detailed descriptions of life in the mission settlements, frequent references to Selwyn's work, and numerous drawings of New Zealand scenes Relationship complexity - Volume 5 (1846-1848) is shelved at qMS-0122 William Bambridge sailed from England with Bishop Selwyn in the Tomatin, 23 Dec 1841. He was appointed writing master at St John's College till 1848 when he returned to England Quantity: 4 volume(s). Physical Description: Holographs (Various sizes and bindings, in ¼ red morocco red buckram slip cases) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander H Turnbull, 1914. Numerous illustrations

Date: [ca 1871]

By: Masters, Joseph, 1802-1873; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: MS-1565

Description: Full account of Masters' life, career in local and national politics and farming life. Autobiography is unpublished. Source of title - Cover title Wairarapa settler, politician and businessman Quantity: 1 volume(s) (85 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (26 cm; ½ brown morocco, marbled boards) Finding Aids: Indexed by A H Turnbull. Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull?

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: 24 March 1882

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-494

Description: Contains seven mounted photographs, taken on 24th March 1882. Four of these are 1/2-004680 and 004681 and 1/2-004683 and 004684 which are halves of two very similar panoramas of Lyttelton harbour taken from the same point and showing the graving dock in the foreground. They both name the same ships moored in the harbour which are: Carnarvon Castle, Pet, Midlothian, Guy Mannering, Harbour Board's dredge and barge, Ione, Wigtonshire, Duchess of Argyle, Inch Murren, Cairnbulg, Seriol Wyn, Glenburn, Perthshire, Alexa, Brilliant, Lurline, Mataura, Duncraig, Enterpe, City of Perth, Lock Eck, Roman Empire, Loch Dee, British Yeoman, Glamis, Gareloch and Woollahra. Also included are two pictures of the graving dock and a view of reclaimed land at the edge of the harbour. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 7 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Album with folded green binding, tied with canvas ribbon, containing seven photographs. Provenance: From the library of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull. Given the original numbering of 3784-3790.

Date: [Circa 1860s-1870s]

By: Tensfeld, John, active 1869-1882; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: PA1-o-493

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tensfeld circa 1860s-1870s. Title page reads: "New Zealand souvenir, by John Tensfeld, artist, Dunedin. Containing twenty interesting views of the most important places in New Zealand" Photographs as shown: Port Chalmers; Dunedin (view from jetty); Dunedin (Princes Street); Dunedin (view from Bell Hill); Dunedin (view towards bay); Waikouaiti (Otago); Christchurch (Government Building); Christchurch (Council Chambers); Nelson; Nelson (view from cemetery); Hokitika, Westland (Gibson's Quay); Kanieri, Westland (diggings on Hokitika River); Greymouth, Westland (Mawhera Quay); Cobden, West Coast (on Hokitika [i.e. Grey] River); Westport, West Coast (Gladstone Street, Buller); View near Nelson; Dunn Mountains (Province of Nelson); Old Porirua Road (near Wellington); Forest scene (North Island). Album from A H Turnbull's own collection, with his own bookplate inside front cover. The album had the original numbering 3791-3809. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover; 23.5 x 31.0 cm Provenance: From the library of Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Williams, John, -1905?; Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885; Nops, John George, -1847; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-320-f

Description: Scenes from the Northland campaign of the New Zealand wars, 1845-46, other Northland views, portrait of Hone Heke. Includes two items by unidentified artists, and a lithograph of a map by John Nops. Inscriptions: Title on spine: Bridge & Williams - Maori war sketches. Cyprian Bridge and John Williams collaborated in documenting events of the war in the far north. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 2 lithographs, 4 drawings, 5 watercolour paintings, in album 344 x 380 mm, 1/2 brown calf, brown buckram. Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull with an inscription in his hand inside the original front cover (loose at top of box A-079). Appears to be his 'New Zealand album containing 16 original sketches, 1845-6', purchased from W. Brown of Edinburgh, 19 July 1893 for £8 (letters of A H Turnbull). Transfers: A watercolour by Cuthbert Clarke showing an 1849 feast in the Bay of Islands removed from this album and located at B-030-007. An ink and wash drawing by John Williams, 'Stern of a canoe' now located at A-079-015 shows as an offset print on a page of the original binding - Watercolour on p. 5 (dimensions 200 x 280 mm) removed and transferred to box A-079-006.

Date: January 1876

By: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-342-f

Description: Near the water reservoir in Dunedin; Head of Lake Wakatipu; Milford Sound (3 so entitled); The Remarkables near Queenstown. Binding: half green morocco, gold tooling, green buckram, gold lozenge device on spine, plain deep green endpapers. 'Morrell. Binder. London' stamped top left, inside first page Inscriptions: On second page, upper centre, in pencil, in the hand of Alexander Turnbull: 6 views of New Zealand by Von Guerard Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 6 pencil in album 350 x 540 mm 1/2 green morocco, green rexine Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1848

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-004

Description: On the left, the plain with the Wairau River, looking north. Four figures can be seen on the hills in the foreground, gazing at the view. On the right, the hills of Port Underwood in the distance, looking along the beachline of the Wairau Plain. A two-part continuous panorama Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Other Titles - January On the face of the painting, at the top, is No. 273 (added at a later date), with the N Z Company stamp which is dated 14 July 1848. The title which is prefixed by "No 6" is taken from the verso of the painting. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 209 x 1048 mm Provenance: Alexander Turnbull's collection, purchased London, 1915, from Francis Edwards, as part of the New Zealand Company collection Processing information: This work is in two parts, joined by the Library in 1999, to show it in its original form as a panorama. It was originally in two separate sections.