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Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
- Date
- 1901
- By
- Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965
- Reference
- D-007-002
- Description
Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, founder of the Polynesian Society, on his retirement from the position of Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands, in 1901. The painted testimonial features a list of the names of the officers of the District Lands and Survey branches, and vignettes showing a Māori chief, the landing place of Tainui at Kawhia, Mount Tarawera after the eruption of 1886, and a surveyor's camp and settlement 'at the Kermadecs'. In addition there is a view of the Southern Alps, a Taranaki scene, a surveyors' camp, road-making through dense bush, a pastoral scene with a farmhouse in the distance, a section of kauri forest, and a mining scene at Thames (Grahamstown Goldfield) with working mines, mine machinery and houses. The whole is surrounded and divided into sections by painted Maori carvings, with kowhai, a theodolite, a tree-fern, native clematis, a nikau palm and flax.
Title supplied by Library.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G. N. Sturtevant fecit MCMI
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm.
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- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 604 x 905 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-03
Description: A Maori man in a small canoe at the shore, close to a large pohutukawa, marking the spot where Tainui are said to have first landed in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 71 mm (diameter)
Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-15
Description: Mining machinery in the foreground with smoking chimneys and factory buildings, and the streets and houses of a township, with the sea beyond in the distance. The town shown is Thames with the Grahamstown goldfield and mine in the foreground. Compare E-068-017-2, Archibald Duddington Willis' sample Christmas card, 1886, title 'Grahamstown goldfield, Thames' for identification of the area Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 83 mm
Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-07
Description: A surveyor's camp and huts, with a group of people standing near a large flag (Blue Ensign), with nikau and hills in the background. Copied from a photograph taken by S. Percy Smith - see PRS (Pictorial Reference Service) files under 13. Kermadec Islands, neg 79328 1/2. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 71 mm (diameter)
Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-11
Description: A survyors' camp in a clearing in dense bush, with four tents, smoke rising from a camp-fire, two men and a theodolite. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 59 x 95 mm
Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-12
Description: A roading gang carving a road out of a steep clay bank, amidst dense forest, with felled trees in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 74 x 109 mm
Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937 :[Testimonial presented to] Stephenson Percy Smit...
Date: 1901
From: Sturtevant, George Neville, 1858-1937: Testimonial presented to Stephenson Percy Smith, Surveyor-General and Secretary for Crown Lands
Reference: D-007-002-11/13
Description: Shows three scenes surrounded by a border of Maori carving with inlaid greenstone. The first scene show the "true pioneer", the surveyor, camped in the forest. The second shows "the first attack" (road-making), and the third shows "Victory!" - the smiling home - settled farmland with road and farmhouse. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 150 mm (with decorative border)