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Date: 1870 - 1872

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: D-040-007

Description: Shows a distant view of William Fox's homestead, Westoe, on the Rangitikei River flat. A snow-covered Mount Ruapehu is seen in the distance. In the bottom-left foreground is a white-bearded man on a horse, with a small dog; this is possibly Fox himself, though he is not identified. He later built a second home, also called Westoe, on a higher terrace (about where the horseman is seen), away from the flood plains Other Titles - Lower Westoe Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C D Barraud / 1870[?] [in brushpoint] See also Fox's own painting of the original homestead, at WC-054 (digitised) Fox was born in the village of Westoe in Durham, England. His second homestead, called Westoe, was completed in 1874 The backing board from the painting reveals that it was at one time owned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (date unspecified), and was later de-accessioned (also unspecified). The accession number was recorded as -/1/921 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 485 x 785 mm Provenance: Purchase: Dunbar Sloane Fine and Applied Art auction, Wellington, 1 July 2015; lot 45. Prior to purchase, belonging to a private collection, purchased at Sale, Dunbar Sloane Ltd., 12 June 1990; lot 6 (from catalogue)

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-040-005

Description: A view of Lake Wakatipu on a calm day, with a snow-laden Mount Earnslaw rising in the distance, shrouded in some low cloud. In the foreground are three horesemen, their horses and a dog. One man sits astride his horse; the second sits on a rock beside his horse; and the third man bends to make a fire. The dog lies resting on its side. A tiny train of steam indicates a steam boat on the lake in the distance The Library also holds two copies of a colour photolithograph of the same scene, at C-117-019, from International Art Centre in 1982. Barraud also painted other scenes of both Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw, some held by the Library Deframed by the Library Other Titles - Making camp, Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / 1874 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour on paper, 600 x 935 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, provenance as follows: Private collection, Auckland; National Treasures art auction, International Art Centre, March 1993; Fine Paintings and Watercolours, International Art Centre, March 1988; Fine Art auction, International Art Centre, 1971

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-011

Description: View from the lower slopes between Brooklyn and Mount Cook, with cows, a herdsman and his dog on the road in the foreground. On the right lie the swamps of Te Aro, with Te Aro Pa visible along the foreshore, along with scattered houses. To the left of the pa area, the road passing diagonally across the plain is probably Cuba Street. The most prominent building on the foreshore is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. The cliff at the water's edge to the left is Clay Point with Plimmer's Ark visible moored in the water at its base. On the far left in the plain area, the large church building is St Peter's, Willis St. Thorndon is in the background to the left, with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. The preliminary watercolour for this work is located at C-007-007 with title 'Te Aro and Thorndon, 1852'. It is dated 1852 and lacks the cows, herdsman and dog of C-007-0011, but shows more of the swamps of Te Aro, with Waitangi Creek meandering through them. The building details are less clear in the preliminary work. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1975 as part of the Colonial Wellington Series. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 508 mm

Date: 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: D-023-016

Description: Shows two horsemen with their horses and a dog, one man standing and using a telescope. Both men are looking down from the raised foreground towards part of a horseshoe-shaped lake, and beyond, through a dip in small hills, to another lake in the distance. There is a range of higher hills at the left, stretching away into the far distance. There are sparse cabbage trees growing on the low-lying peninsula in the nearer lake. A view from the same spot as Barraud's engraving 'Te Aute Lake, Hawke Bay', in his 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive' (London, 1877) on page 23. The accompanying commentary reads 'The lake shown in our sketch, was in 1818, the scene of a terrible disaster to the Hawke Bay natives, inflicted by a war party of the Ngapuhi, led by the great chief Tamati Waka Nene. On the approach of the invaders nearly the whole of the older people with the women and children fled to an island in the Te Aute Lake ... An excellent view of the Te Aute Lakes is obtained from the present line of railway between Napier and Waipukurau ...' While visiting Te Aute in 1865, Barraud visited Rev Samuel Williams and may have stayed with him. He may be one of the men in this view. The work was titled Landscape with two horsemen when it was copied by the Library in the 1970s, while still in private ownership. There was and is no title on the work itself. The identification of the men as surveyors appears to be a later suggestion. Te Aute Lake was drained by Europeans, possibly in the 1880s. Other Titles - Landscape with two horsemen 1866. Surveyors [former titles] Inscriptions: Verso - centre left - Molesworth Page 81, I35; Backing board recto - centre - Item seven referred to in Deed dated 17/10/75 executed by P E Smith Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 482 x 660 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by Russell Smith, a descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: 1876

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: A-106-023

Description: Shows two Maori figures walking along a track in the foreground, bush and scrub in the middle distance, and a view of Mount Tauhara in the distance. The two figures are carrying bundles and a dog is following them. Glued to modern backing board. Accompanied with inscribed title (not in the hand of the artist, and probably copied from inscription on original backing or from verso of work) Other Titles - Tauhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated. Also initials C D B faintly, lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on canvas paper, 178 x 253 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at McArthur's Auction, Auckland in April 1985, lot 44.

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-067

Description: Shows view from the road to Mount Eden looking across Parnell to Rangitoto Island. Of the two spires, St Mary's Church, Parnell, is the one at left on the headland, and Bishopscourt, St Stephen's Avenue, is at the right. In the left foreground a man with wheelbarrow and dog, leans on his shovel and talks to skirted Maori carrying bundle of wood on his back. There is a lighthouse in the harbour at the right of the headland, and there is a steamship on the harbour. Several houses dot the land closer than the headland. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C.D.B. / 1875 Original for chromolithograph "Auckland harbour" in his "New Zealand: graphic and descriptive (London, 1877). Held at ATL Art Rm f919.31 BAR. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 355 mm.

Date: 1886

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-006

Description: A road cut into a cliff on the left, with a man and a dog walking around the corner. In the foreground, a ford crossing the river and tall trees on both sides, possibly beech trees. The Library also holds the preliminary drawing for this view, in pencil and sepia ink, (B-007-016). The preliminary drawing lacks the man and dog, and the trees are rather less lush. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 307 x 503 mm Provenance: Barraud family donation

Date: 1875

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-175-008

Description: Shows at lower right a covered wagon stopped beside a wooden hut. Two men, three horses and a dog are standing beside the wagon, which is standing at the side of a road, curving away around the corner of a road that follows a river though mountainous country. There are snow-capped peaks in the distance. Several birds flutter around the hut, and there are stands of native bush at left and right. Title from the label attached to backing board (retained with the artwork) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 332 x 464 mm. Processing information: Deframed by the Library

Date: 1865

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: E-047-q-051

Description: A copy of a watercolour by Charles Decimus Barraud [Lake Papaitonga] (B-004-030), showing a Maori settlement with a long European-style raupo whare, Maori seating in front of the dwelling, and round a cooking pot over a fire, a dog, hends and two pigs, with a small canoe on the lake, and fish hanging to dry. A European man is talking to one group. 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. Other Titles - Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 173 x 249 mm