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Date: 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-040

Description: Shows St Mary's Anglican church, in the foreground. The Sugar Loaf Islands are in the left background cf A229/10; watercolour of same scene. St Mary's Anglican church was completed in 1847. Crawford's other sketches of New Plymouth are dated 1847. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 177 x 261 mm

Date: 1880 - 1881

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbook] Drawing Book, 13. 12. 1880.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948

Reference: E-060-3-023

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, page size 119 x 175 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-139/140

Description: View along the New Plymouth coastline Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 320 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Willis, Archibald Dudingston (Firm) :N. Z. Christmas cards. - Wanganui ; A.D. Willis [1886 or later].

Reference: E-068-024-1

Description: New Plymouth breakwater (constructed in 1881) seen from the north, looking along the coast, framed on the left with native and exotic flowers, including kowhai, clematis and manuka. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chomolithograph 104 x 72 mm on album page ca 137 x 180 mm

Date: [1870s]

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

By: Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: PA1-q-080

Description: Album with reproductions of paintings and lithographs of varying subjects, including religious themes and pictures of animals. These pictures are interspersed with photographs, including views of Turkey, Greece, Ireland, and New Zealand. Views in New Zealand are chiefly in Wellington, with some in Taranaki. Several images show views in Cuba Street, Wellington, including the business premises of Gordon Baillie, photographer, with the cottage of Mr Gregg next door; also the Nags Head Hotel, looking towards Wellington Harbour. The album is signed inside the front cover `W H Field. 1870' Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Dark green album, gold marking across corners and spine, raised bands on spine, 31.0 x 26.5 cm

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-050

Description: Two views on one page. The top view is of the Sugarloaf Islands, New Plymouth from the beach just south, looking out to sea. The lower view is of some of the smaller inlets close by Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: ca 1861

From: Urquhart album

Reference: PA1-q-250-11

Description: Coastline, New Plymouth, circa 1861. Looks along a beach, towards the distant Sugar Loaf Islands. Richmond Cottage, is just visible, left of centre. Photographer unidentified. Richmond Cottage was constructed from stone in 1854 and located at St Aubyn Street, New Plymouth, for Christopher William and Emily Elizabeth Atkinson. Occupied by the Richmond family for many years. Became an accommodation place in the 1880s. Moved in the early 1960s to Pukeariki Landing, Ariki Street. Administered by Puke Ariki/ New Plymouth Museum. Inscriptions: Album page - Sugar Loaves Taranaki NZ; Album page - Richmond Cottage Built 1857 Arrangement: In folder stored with album Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14 x 21.9, with trimmed corners, mounted on card

Date: 1856

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

Reference: E-106-f-031-2

Description: View looking down the main street of New Plymouth showing business premises and dwellings and distant view of the camp at Mount Eliot. Two Maori are standing and others are seated on the grass in the immediate foreground. Sugar-loaf Islands can be seen in the far distance. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 145 x 235 mm

Date: 1840

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

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-012-2

Description: A profile view of the head of a Maori woman, inscribed Inenuitepo, bracketed with Mardia, then the word Kipa, evidently a transliteration of a Maori phrase. The woman has an earring. Another profile, possibly of a man, below. Bottom right, a small drawing of the Sugar Loaf rocks and Paritutu at New Plymouth, viewed from the south, with the coastline on the right On the reverse of C-103-012-1, a set of cartoons dated 1840. Removed from a sketchbook. Other Titles - Nui te po. The Sugar Loaves, Taranaki Inscriptions: Recto - across the face of the woman. Apparently an attempt to copy out Maori words, probably including 'nui te po' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash, 214 x 127 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-012/014

Description: Three engravings from watercolours by S. C. Brees, Principal Surveyor to the New Zealand Company in Wellington, 1842-1845. They show a pa in the foreground close to Porirua Harbour, with a view of the harbour and hills, a European man with swag, walking stick and dog in the foreground; New Plymouth looking south along the coastline with Mount Taranaki and the Sugar Loaf rocks in the background, cows in the foreground and the houses of the town in the middle distance; two buildings of Joseph Thom's whaling station, with washing hanging up, barrels in the foreground. Other Titles - Porirua. Taranaki Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-029

Description: Two views of New Plymouth, one above the other. The upper view looks past houses and gardens towards the sea, Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf rocks. The lower view is from the sea, looking at the settlement with houses, Marsland hill to the left, and a larger hill behind. The building on a rise on the far left may be St Mary's Church Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

Reference: E-328-f-068-1

Description: A view of the Sugar Loaf rocks Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Sugar Loaf Rocks near New Plymouth. 16/9/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 53 x 139 mm

Date: 1875

By: Wood, A, active 1944

Reference: C-029-012

Description: Shows the view across the town, with the Sugar Loaves at the right. Extended Title - From Vogel, Sir Julius. The Official handbook of New Zealand, 1875, facing page 227. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - To face page 227. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 100 x 463 mm, on paper, 212 x 557 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1862

From: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877 :Sketchbook. [1860-1864]

Reference: E-569-011/012

Description: Shows a view from the sea, of the coastline at New Plymouth, showing the Sugar Loaves. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on pages of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil sketch on double page spread 126 x 346 mm.

Date: 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :Fragmentary sketches & odds & ends; sketches in Taranaki New Zealand 1856 / W.S. New Zealand rough sketches, 1856.

Reference: E-441-008

Description: A Maori canoe on the beach near the Sugar Loaves Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 226 x 105 mm

Date: 1864

From: [Warre, Henry James] 1819-1898 :[Sketchbook]

By: Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: E-294-058/059

Description: View looking out to sea and south west along the Taranaki coastline, with the Grey Institute, (several buildings clustered together on top of a hillock) and the Sugar Loaves and Paritutu in the background The Grey Institute (named after Sir George Grey) was a Wesleyan mission school and boys' boarding house at Ngamotu, close to Paritutu and the Sugar Loaf islands, west of New Plymouth city. Extended Title - From: Warre, Henry. [Sketchbook ] 1864-1865. p. 58 to 59 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 97 x 311 mm (partial double page spread)

Date: 1863

From: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906 :[Four works - Off Napier, New Zealand, 2 April 1862; Taranaki roads, New Zealand, Mount Egmont and the Sugar Loaf Mountains, 19 March 1863; Taranaki or New Plymouth, New Zealand, visited 27 June 1863; and, The Manukau Heads, New Zealand, 10 April 1863.]

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-064-037

Description: Shows view of Taranaki coast from on board ship (H.M.S. Harrier), with Mt Taranaki in centre background, and the Sugar Loaves at right. Mounted on same sheet: Off Napier, New Zealand...1862 (B-064-036). On verso: Taranaki or New Plymouth, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-038); and, The Manukau Heads, New Zealand...1863 (B-064-039). Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Taranaki - Roads - New Zealand / Mount Egmont & the Sugar Loaf Mountains / 19 March 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 173 x 290 mm, on sheet 305 x 386 mm. Provenance: Purchased at auction at Sotheby's, London, in 1988.

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[Sketchbook of English and New Zealand scenes] 1860 - 1864

Reference: E-349-141/142

Description: View along the New Plymouth coastline Other Titles - South Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 320 mm

Date: [Circa 1890s to 1910s]

By: Barltrop, George William, 1863-1946

Reference: PA1-o-299

Description: Photographs probably taken by George William Barltrop, circa 1890s-1900s. Most of the scenes are taken on a river boat trip up the Whanganui River, and include two of groups of Maori; one showing two nuns in full habit, walking behind three young Maori girls who are wearing ankle-length dresses. Some of the river scenes show stretches of the river, including several `on the rapids', and one of a group of men in a waka. Others are of the various villages passed on the trip, including one of the river boat tied up at Jerusalem, with a cart drawn by two horses alongside. One view shows the mouth of the Whanganui River at Patea, and from there the images are of the New Plymouth area, including Mount Taranaki (then Mount Egmont), the Sugar Loaves, the monument to Wiremu Tamati on the hill at Corbett Park (Oakura), and Opunake. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark green cover, impressed title `Photographs'; McIntosh XV, 15 765-814; 16 x 22 cm

Date: 1863

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-106-f-031-1

Description: View of the Sugar Loaf Islands. A group of three Maori are on the far left near a pallisade. From a photograph by Rev J Kinder Extended Title - From Illustrated London news, Vol 43, 7 Nov 1863, page 472 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 163 x 240 mm