White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

Date: 1848

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

Reference: A-292-074

Description: The man has full moko on his face, short curly hair and an ear adornment. Beyond him are parallel fence lines, possibly indicating the two sides of a path or track rising up a low hill to the left and a small European-style house is on a low rise in the left background. Tall hills and a sunset or sunrise sky in the background. Several of White's other known watercolours are copies and this too could be a copy. It is the same as A-114-041, a watercolour by an unknown artist. It resembles several of Angas's lithographs, but is not an exact copy of any of them. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]; Recto - top right - 63 [in pencil, numbering by T. B. Collinson] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-292-075

Description: A copy, with some variations of a lithograph from an original drawing by William Swainson 'Fern-Tree', lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland in 1849. Both versions show the central tree-fern with its dead branches hanging around the trunk, a standing (armed with a spear) Maori male and a seated Maori woman to the left of the trunk and low scrub beyond. White's watercolour has the addition of another Maori male walking off into the bushes to the right of the trunk of the tree-fern. It is possible that White copied Swainson's drawing, rather than Clarke's lithograph version of this view. See A-004-007 for a copy of the lithograph, which is very rare, and in which Clarke has accidentally reversed the Ns in Swainson's name, and almost in the title, although that is corrected. See also White's 'Black tree-fern' (A-292-073), which tends to suggest that White was copying Swainson's drawing, rather than the lithograph, because it is not reversed, like the lithograph. However the fact that both of Swainson's drawings that he is known to have copied were lithographed by Clarke in Auckland, may suggest that White saw the drawings in Auckland. T. B. Collinson, amongst whose sketches the watercolours by Fred White are located, visited St John's College and White, a fellow member of the Royal Marines, may have visited with him and seen the Swainson drawings there.. Other Titles - Fern-Tree, after William Swainson and Cuthbert Clarke. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]; Recto - top right - 64 [in pencil, numbered by T. B. Collinson. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-292-080

Description: A single mamaku or black tree-fern in a clearing, a copy of a lithograph by William Swainson probably of a Hutt Valley scene. Other native forest watercolours by White are copied from the work of William Swainson. Compare copies of the same image by Janetta Cookson at A-048-047, with title [Fern tree]. Copied N. Z. 1853. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]. In the upper right corner is the number 65, inscribed by T. B. Collinson. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 330 x 234 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1848

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

Reference: A-292-072

Description: A view of Wellington, looking up The Terrace, with gardens, fences and houses, two people walking up the road, the harbour on the left and Mt Cook and part of Mt Victoria in the background, along with a few houses on the Te Aro foreshore, possibly including Te Aro Pa. On the verso is an outline pencil sketch of the contours of the hills with the harbour from the same viewpoint. Attributed to White on stylistic grounds, especially the liberal use of red gouache. The watercolour is titled in the hand of T. B. Collinson, but is not drawn in his style. The next three sketches in this group of loose sketches are signed Fred. J. White. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink in the hand of T. B. Collinson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 138 x 226 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1848

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

Reference: A-292-073

Description: Red and blue European flowers in the foreground, otherwise a scene in a clearing in a native forest, probably in the Hutt Valley. The tree fern is prominent in the centre of the view. Copied from a lithograph by William Swainson called Black fern-tree. Copied from a now lost drawing by William Swainson of a black tree-fern (mamaku). The drawing was lithographed in 1849, with the image reversed, by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland. For the only known surviving copy of the lithograph (at the British Library) see the photograph at A-144-090. Janetta Maria Cookson also made two copies of this and another lithograph, with the image reversed, rather than of the original drawing - see A-048-049 and A-048-050. White's copy has the European man by the fire as an additional figure that is not present in the lithograph. See also White's "Fern tree" (A-292-075) which is similarly copied from Swainson, with an additional figure. White possibly made his copies at St John's College, since Collinson (and very probably White, a fellow member of the Royal Marines) visited the College in 1849. Other Titles - Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].