Places

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-010

Description: Looking south-west along the coastline towards the hills north of Moeraki, past the mouth of the Kakanui River. In the foreground are a tent, and a raupo shelter, a man standing and a group of three men seated Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash, 58 x 200 mm.

Date: 1868-1869

By: Green, George, active 1860

Reference: qMS-0881

Description: Annotated copy of petition to Legislative Council covering land on Stewart Island that the South Island claimed to have been purchased between 1830 and 1840. Letters from Green to W B D Mantell and Andrew Buchanan; copies of letters to Green from Alfred Domett and Land Claims Commission. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 volume(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and printed matter (31 cm, ¼ red morocco, pink boards) Transfers: Transferred from qPAM, 22 April 1976.

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-043-1

Description: Shows Mount Egmont in the distance with houses, a seated cow in a paddock and a man standing to the right. There is also a low flat structure on legs in the centre. 'Hua' may be an abbreviation for Huatoki Stream. Other Titles - Huatoki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 145 x 229 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-009

Description: Looking across a broad rivermouth, with hills in the background. Two tents in the foreground on the bank of the river, with flax bushes. One man (possibly Walter Mantell) stands by a tent and a group three men are seated together to the right. Two distant birds in the sky over a bluff to the right mark the spot from which a previous view, no. 8, was drawn. See also: E-281-010 Descriptive note Other Titles - Kakanui Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 9. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash in two colours, 60 x 200 mm

Date: 1850-1869

From: Bell family: Collection

Reference: PA1-q-559

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1844

By: Domett, Alfred (Hon), 1811-1887

Reference: qMS-0617

Description: An unpublished poem satirising Governor FitzRoy and his attitude towards the Maori after the Wairau tragedy. This particular copy was made by W B D Mantell, and contains alterations of his own, the original wording being given in footnotes. Quantity: 1 volume(s) (8 pages). Physical Description: Holograph (31 cm; ½ black calf, blue linen)

Date: 1850

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

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

Reference: E-281-q-044-3

Description: View from the hills of Wadestown looking north east towards the Harbour. A tree trunk is sketched in on the slope in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour wash on cream wove paper, 124 x l56 mm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-009-1

Description: Shows track into valley, with a tall tree fern on the right Extended Title - In: Mantell, W B D Scrapbook. No. 8. p. 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 210 x 175 mm

Date: 1844

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

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

Reference: C-103-021-4

Description: Study of geological layers in a cliff Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 'Kanga maiterangi'; also bottom right 'Cliff at Howick, 1 sept'. Both inscriptions in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 65 x 125 mm

Date: 1852

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

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

Reference: C-103-107-2

Description: View across the tops of hills from north of Bluff towards Stewart Island and the high points of Ragged and Codfish Islands Other Titles - Hinetui. Omaui. Bluff. Rarotoka. Raggedy. Rugged. Codfish Id Inscriptions: Recto - above image - title and date in ink; also the names of various high points Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on 2 sheets of wove paper, each 28 x 259 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-111-3

Description: Looking along the shoreline at Ruapuke Island, with a small house in the distance, presumably that of Rev. J. F. Wohlers Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink on cream paper, 85 x 131 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-041-2

Description: Looking north up the coast from a kainga at Waitara with a whare to the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 110 x 172 mm

Date: 1849 - 1851

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

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

Reference: C-103-015-3

Description: A night scene with a fire burning near a pataka. A lake and hills are to the right. Muhunoa is alongside the 38 m high knoll Ohau and this is likely to be the hill formation shown in the background Other Titles - Muhunoa Inscriptions: 'Waiwiri from Muhunea' inscribed on the album page, now discarded. The inscription can be seen in the photographic copy of the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 85 mm

Date: 1847

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

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

Reference: C-103-025-4

Description: The beach at Omata with an interesting rock formation of rounded lumps on a base, a human figure at the right giving it scale. The view looks south and there is a flax plant to the left One of 9 small drawings on this sheet Other Titles - New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, 80 x 110 mm

Date: 1852 - 1853

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

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

Reference: C-103-103-3

Description: A small thatched roof cottage and a low shelter in a clearing in bush New River was the original European name for the Oreti River, Southland Other Titles - Oreti River Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 56 x 106 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-006

Description: A Maori man seated on a high flat rock in a limestone shelter, looking out to a plain with ponds in the distance See also: E-281-007; see also E-333-026/027, Mantell's version of the same view 'The Commissioner' referred to is Walter Mantell Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 6. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash, 60 x 140 mm

Date: 1848

By: Wills, Alfred, active 1842-1852

Reference: A-228-019

Description: Four men close to or sheltering under limestone caves in a low hillside. Two flax bushes on top of the hill. A nearer group of rock shelters is marked A to indicate Mantell's and Wills' sleeping place; the more distance shelters are marked B to indicate the other men's sleeping places Notes: A. Mantell's & my sleeping place. B. The men's. Inscriptions: Recto - top right - No 5B; Recto - beneath image - title and indicative notes re locations Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash, 190 x 230 mm

Date: 1895

Reference: MS-Papers-3016

Description: Endorsed by W B D Mantell; re a copy of Hansard Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 leaf). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph

Date: 1849

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

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

Reference: C-103-074-1

Description: View looking down into Lyttelton Harbour from the Sumner Road area, taking in Lyttelton, with its few houses marked, as well as Rapaki and Cass Bays and looking towards Governor's Bay. The drawing forms a panoramic view with C-103-075-1, which includes Quail Island. Caption points out sites of other bays and early buildings in Lyttelton, including the (Canterbury Association) Agent's house (Godley's house), the house occupied by Torlesse, Cridland and Mantell, also 'Godley & Ballard's', 'Fraser and heads of departments', 'Men's hut and smithy'. The drawing is on two separate pieces of paper and forms thecentre and right sections of a panorama with C-103-075-1 'Quail Island' Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 132 x 65 mm and 143 x 186 mm

Date: 1850

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

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

Reference: C-103-013-4

Description: Shows the Eastern hills, Wellington Harbour, bush and one house in the foreground in Wellington, possibly the Wadestown area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 153 x 140 mm