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Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: C-054-011

Description: Shows a small family group; a young woman carrying a baby in a blanket on her back. Title supplied and date written in red ballpoint on picture by previous owner. Other Titles - Akaroa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 355 x 255 mm

Date: 1852

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; Dickinson & Company

Reference: C-054-007

Description: A tangi at Motueka Pa. The Library holds the original watercolour on which this lithograph is based at C-054-019 From: Oliver, R A A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand [1852] Other Titles - Motueka Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (two-tone) 269 x 393 mm

Date: 1847-1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: Micro-MS-0199

Description: Letter book contains administrative correspondence. The private journal is a record of the Hobart, Auckland, Wellington and Pacific interludes. Includes detailed accounts of the New Zealand Company, the 1848 earthquake, and Maori pas in the Wellington area Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (125 pages).

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-089-001

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.

Date: 1847 - 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985; Oliver, G C S (Mr), active 1970s

Reference: C-054-020

Description: Shows an elderly man (possibly Rangihaeata) seated in the centre of a group of four women, while one white-bearded man stands behind the group. In the right foreground is a spherical iron cooking pot. In the left background is a tree with forked base, showing a whare behind it. In the centre background is a cabbage tree, and there is a flax plant beside the group of women. In the distance is a hilly coastline, perhaps the Paekakariki coast. The clothing of the group varies. One woman wears a dark layered feather cloak; another wears what appears to be a red blanket. The old woman wears a light-coloured cloak and a dress of patterned fabric. Described in a list of Oliver paintings in the possession of Mr G.C.S. Oliver, as "Rangihera - Rangihaeta's wife. Flash of lightning. Old man, five women in front of hollow tree". The central figure has been interpreted as Te Rangihaeata, himself, shown with his characteristic albatross-feather ear adornments. Moko on his forehead is indicated and he holds a mere in his right hand. As there is no record of a wife of Rangihaeata's with the name Rangi-Hira (or Rangihaera or Rangiuira) it may be that Oliver was mistaken in his identification of the central figure as Rangihaeata's wife. Compare the Library's very similar group portrait, also by Oliver of Rangihaeata and family outside a whare (C-054-014). The latter view has fewer figures but several are clearly the same figures. Certificate of verification, signed by Madeleine McClintock on 17 May 1985, on verso of backing board. The scene is likely to have been painted in 1851, when Oliver was on his way towards Waikane and Otaki for the meeting with Rangihaeata depicted in Oliver's watercolour C-054-018 [A korero. Te Rangihaeata addresssing the Governor in Chief (Sir George Grey) at Waikanae [or Otaki] Sept 1851]. The identity of Rangi-Hira is uncertain. Compare with Isaac Coates' portrait of E Ranguera (a.k.a. Te Rongo), an earlier wife of Rangihaeata. Te Rongo was killed at Wairau in 1843, well before Oliver arrived in New Zealand. Another wife of chiefly status was Te Pikinga. The woman variously described by Oliver as 'Rangihera' and 'Rangihira', may be Rangihaeata's niece, Rangiuira of Kapiti Island, wife from 1847 to 1854 of David Brown, a farmer of Kapiti. Tony Ireland (pers com. November 2007) has made a suggested indentification of the figures in the picture. He cites Waari Carkeek http://www.ngatitoa.iwi.nz/briefs, who cites the cursing song of Rangihaeata's sister Tope-Ora (Nga Moteatea number 280) which states that the second Tope-ora was a daughter of Rangihaeata. Tony Ireland therefore surmises that the picture shows, from left to right: Rangi Topeora I, her fourth husband Arapata Hauturu, Rangiuira's father Te Paea (standing), Rangihaeata (seated with white hair), the infant Tope-Ora II, Rangiuira Rakera Te Paea, and an unnamed woman reclining on the ground at the right. However a personal communication from Bernard Morgan, October 2009, disputes these identifications. Bernard Morgan, a descendant of Rangiuira te Paea, states that Rangiuira was never married to Rangihaeata. She was married to David Brown of Kapiti Island 1847-1854. The suggested identifications are speculatory and may be incorrect. Other Titles - Te Rangiuira - Rangihaeta's wife... in front of hollow tree. Rangiheara. Rangihaeata. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - Rangi heara; Verso - centre - Rangi-hira / Flash of Lightning [both bracketed to] Rangihaeta's wife Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 480 mm (sight). Provenance: Passed down through the Oliver family to Mr G.C.S. Oliver of Rutland, England. Exhibited at New Zealand House, London for about 20 years, to the early 1980s. Inherited by G.C.S. Oliver's daughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock of Sheffield, England, and then sold in about 1985, through the dealership of Brian Groshinski, to the Goodman Group.

Date: 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: B-159-024

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman with a child on the woman's back, walking beside their packhorse on a road at the left. The packhorse is laden with red saddlebags. The road continues into the foreground and curves away again to the right, disappearing into a bushcovered hilly area. The couple are passing a central rata tree in flower, and there are bushcovered hills in the distance. In the foreground in front of the rata is a pool or section of a river. Location suggested to be the Hutt Valley, but may be one of the gorges off the western side of the harbour, possibly near the old Porirua Road. Letter of authentication dated 24 August 1983 on backing board. Sometimes known as "Maori travellers ..." Other Titles - Maori travellers with packs and horse, pack horse, Hutt Valley [former title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 375 x 262 mm. Provenance: Formerly owned by the artist's great granddaughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock. Auctioned at McArthur & Company Auckland in October 1983 (lot 28)

Date: 1850 - 1852

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-189-013

Description: Shows three women, two of them older and sitting on the ground in front of a hut. One smokes a pipe. The third, a younger woman, is standing between them. She wears a blue and white-striped top (possibly a sailor's clothing), and is wrapped in a red blanket. She also wears a knotted scarf around her neck, and a garland of flowers around her head. All three women have facial moko. On the ground in front of them lie a gourd, kete, an axe and a tewhatewha. The scene is possibly set in the Hauraki district Possibly the same woman who appears in Oliver's 'Inside the stockade with natives outside', ca 1850, and who wears virtally the same attire of striped shirt, red blanket and knotted scarf (B-089-001). This in turn was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) (C-054-008) Other Titles - Red blanket (translation) Other Titles - Iahwera (transcribed misspelling) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Iahwera [in faint pencil - misspelt]; Recto - bottom left - Mary[?] [in faint pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on paper, 360 x 255 mm, in gate-fold mat 580 x 435 mm

Date: 1851

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889; McClintock, Madeleine, active 1985

Reference: A-457-004

Description: Full-frontal seated portrait of a Maori girl, probably in her teenage years. She wears a cotton wrap with red spots, similar to the 'tag' style cloak or korowai worn by Maori. Her earlobes are adorned with long ribbon, and her hair, which is brushed straight, is parted in the middle On the verso is a pencil sketch, possibly a map, with the inscription 'and a native village near Wellington', possibly referring to Ngauranga Other Titles - Ngauranga Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Emily - a Maori. Nauranga Jany/51 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 370 x 255 mm Provenance: Previously sold to a private vendor at McArthur's auction, Auckland, October 1983, lot 22. Previously passed by descent to Oliver's great grand-daughter, Mrs Madeleine McClintock of England.