Places

Date: 1851

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper)

Reference: E-455-f-084-6

Description: An account of a disturbance in Auckland after a Maori policeman had locked up a chief. The Ngatipaoa were involved with a haka on the beach at Mechanics Bay, and threats of retaliation. HMS Fly and its crew were also involved The article is on the page of a page from the Illustrated London news on the previous page of the album. Pearse has cut a rectangle out of the album page to allow the article to be read Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, newspaper column, 160 x 84 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-033

Description: Looking east across the harbour and beaches of the North Shore towards the city showing the buildings of the town centred on Point Britomart with Mount Eden in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour, 246 x 356 mm

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-042

Description: A small ship Mechanics Bay where [artist's] son Jed was painting boats Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1852

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-003

Description: Looking west along the coastline, with shipbuilding in the foreground, a wharf and St Paul's in Parnell beyond Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photo print of pen sketch 105 x 152 mm

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-044

Description: A small boat, unnamed Mechanics Bay where [artist's] son Jed was painting boats Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1920 - 1929

By: Isaac, Wilfrid Nelson, 1893-1972

Reference: A-143-019

Description: Looking down Anzac Ave toward Mechanics Bay and North Head Inscriptions: Signed: Isaac Nelson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 252 x 352 mm

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-002

Description: View of early Auckland with a bridge close to the waterfront Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen sketch

Date: 1860 - 1870

From: Various artists :Official Bay; From a point; Freeman's Bay, Auckland. [ca 1845. Five keys to early buildings and features from drawings by Edward Ashworth and other artists].

Reference: A-197-046

Description: A view of St Georges Bay and Mechanics Bay from the water. From left to right, labelled features include: Blackett [house], Now Clevland Road, St George's Bay Road, Rev Churton, Maori Boys' School, St Barnabas, Parnell Rise, Selwyn Terrace, Alpha Road, Domain, Swan Inn, Stanley Street, Maori Hostelry, Maori Wesleyan Chapel. There are two Maori canoes in the foreground. Likely to have been made as a key to a painting. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white, on sheet 190 x 332 mm.

Date: 1850

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-050-007

Description: Shows view from above Mechanics Bay, looking across to North Head with Rangitoto in the background. A clearing with native bush in the foreground, with a seated and a standing Maori man with a taiaha, a European on horseback, and a bullock-drawn cart. The roofs of several houses are visible below the clearing and at a higher point on the right. Dating: Clarke arrived in New Zealand in 1849. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C Clarke del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing ; pencil 249 x 348 mm

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-q-043

Description: A drawing of a small boat Mechanics Bay where [artist's] son Jed was painting boats Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1982

From: Stones, Anthony, 1934-2016 :Sketchbook 1981-1982

Reference: E-181-Q-045

Description: A boat named as the Kotare Mechanics Bay where [artist's] son Jed was painting boats Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, page size 271 x 210 mm

Date: 1860 - 1884

Reference: G-082

Description: A scene with with a waterfront road, a breakwater and jetty. Between Mechanics Bay in the foreground and Commercial Bay in the background where several ships are anchored, is a distinctive high mound, the end of the Britomart promontory. On top of the headland at the left is a church (St Pauls) with a red wooden spire. To its right is the Albert Barracks. Below this is Emily Place. Ships' masts in the background are those moored at Queen's Wharf St Paul's Church was demolished in 1884, so the picture shows a scene before that date. The breakwater in Mechanics Bay dates from the 1870s. The mound shown is the end of Britomart Point with a road cut through on its left. This cutting was made around 1875, part of the reclamation of land and cutting a road through Britomart Point. The remaining mound was demolished over the next few years. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 200 x 330 mm (sight) Provenance: On offer in 2002 at John Leech Gallery, Auckland, with a provenance of Private Collection, Auckland

Date: 1853

By: Hogan, Patrick Joseph, 1804-1878

Reference: A-004-005

Description: Shows view from harbour towards Point Britomart; identifies Colonial Hospital, Scotch Church, St Paul's Church, Barracks, Wesleyan Chapel, St Matthew's School, R.C. Church; also shows Partington's Windmill Article about Hogan's four views of Auckland in "New Zealander", 6 July 1853. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted 164 x 286 mm on sheet 200 x 320 mm Transfers: Former frontispiece to: Swainson W. Auckland, the capital of New Zealand... London, 1853 (held at 919.31; this copy acc. 11,276). Frontispiece removed and transferred to Drawings and Prints Collection for conservation reasons..

Date: 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-043

Description: Auckland City from Mechanics Bay (now Stanley Street). The houses on the cliff in the middle distance mark the southern end of Official Bay. A flag flies on Point Britomart and on the higher ground to the left are St Paul's, the Barracks and the business enterprises at the top of Shortland Crescent. Government House lies in the sheltered hollow on the left. The complete spire on St Paul's suggests the painting was done after March 1844, the date of completion of the spire. The foreground is framed with tall flowering flax on the right and cabbage trees and other trees on the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 161 x 244 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Johnston, John Tremenhere, active 1850s-1860s

Reference: B-079-027

Description: View across Auckland and harbour from cemetery, looking down on Grafton Gully and Mechanics Bay. St Barnabas Church in centre middle ground, and possibly Parnell Orphanage at far right foreground (Cf. view by J O Hamley E-047-q-023) Supplied title Attribution based on style and information from donor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 315 x 480 mm

Date: 1864

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :[New Zealand sketches, 1864-1866]

Reference: B-045-008/009

Description: Shows boats and a pier (probably Wynyard Pier) in Offical Bay and Mechanics Bay beyond, with the hill of Parnell in the background. The land all around the bays is dotted with houses, and there appear to be 3 churches in Parnell. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil, 138 x 464 mm.

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-019

Description: A yacht and a jetty in the water at the left, the beach and a road centre, houses to the right and in the distance on the surrounding hills. Two men and a woman in front of the nearer houses, one of the men carrying a yoke with heavy buckets, possibly containing milk or water. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & ink, 198 x 307 mm