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Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
- Date
- 1846 - 1860
- By
- Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Moresby, Caroline, 1845?-
- Reference
- A-288-001/039
- Description
Views of Pipitea Pa, Porirua, Wellington Harbour, Hutt Valley, Rangitoto Island, Auckland Harbour, New Plymouth, Vanuatu, 2 of Europe
All watercolours removed from album pages and stored separately. Album retained in the additional box at A-288.
Inscriptions: Album cover, inside front cover. Artist's name and his inscription to his third daughter, Caroline, a grand-daughter's poem, other inscriptions.
Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 37 watercolours, 1 pencil sketch, MS notes on inside front cover.
Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary
Provenance: Given by the artist to his third daughter, Caroline (later Moresby), then by family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Slides of all items taken pre-conservation; also transparencies. Negative numbers assigned for all items. Not yet fully photographed post-conservation (1998).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 sketchbook(s) 37 watercolours, 1 pencil sketch, MS notes on inside front cover, Sketchbooks, Watercolours, Works of art, Watercolours, sizes vary
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UnknownGold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871 :Wellington Harbor N[ew] Zealand [1855 or 1856?]
Date: 1855 - 1856
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-008
Description: A view from the junction of the Petone foreshore and the present Hutt Road, looking along the bush-clad Western side of Wellington Harbour, with a Maori canoe pulling away from the shore. Two bays along the shore, a large hillside slip is visible, almost certainly the slip caused by the 1855 Wellington earthquake While the first headland along the Hutt Road is shown as heavily bush-clad, the second shows a fresh slip. This matches another view by Gold showing landslips caused by Wellington's 1855 earthquake, and helps to date this work as almost certainly 1855 or shortly afterwards. It also provides a more precise location for the landslip shown in Gold's other watercolour of this earthquake damage (Land slip caused by earthquake near Wellington, Jan. 1855, reference number B-103-016). The slip was in the area behind the present petrol station on the Hutt Road, near Petone Other Titles - Wellington Harbour Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in sepia ink, with Harbour spelled as harbor Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 133 x 227 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991) whence purchased by the Library
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :[Perspective drawing in pencil of a church]
Date: 1846
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-039
Description: A church with small bell-tower with vanishing perspective lines to one side. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235x301mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860. To dearest Car...
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-001
Description: Ink inscriptions by the artist to his daughter Caroline, a later ink inscription by Caroline's husband ("sketches by General Gold"), a poem in pencil by Caroline starting 'New Zealand was my own dear home / With woods and forests green / It was the only home I had / Long ere England I had seen'; Also pencil inscriptions probably by a daughter of Caroline's and by a later descendant. The first page to the sketchbook Quantity: 1 container(s) Inside cover of sketchbook. Physical Description: Inscriptions in ink and pencil, 235x300mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Wellington Harbor N[ew] Zealand 1856
Date: 1856
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-004
Description: View looking across to the south-west of Evan's Bay with Cook Strait beyond, a schooner on the water and bush, including a rata, cabbage trees, a tree-fern and flax in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 143 x 229 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871 :[Bush and river scene with black shag, possibly the H...
Date: 1847 - 1860
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-010
Description: A shag raising its wings on a snagged log in the foregound, with a view across a river towards the far bush-clad bank. The water may be that of a lake, rather than a river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 266 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :[Mathieson and Schultze's flour-mill, Kaiwharawhara, 1...
Date: 1850 - 1860
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-028
Description: The three-storied flour mill at Kaiwharawhara, with its mill wheel to the left, set alongside Kaiwharawhara Stream (at the bottom of Ngaio Gorge) with a road running towards the mill on the stream's right bank and bush-clad hills. A Maori man with a spear in one hand is walking towards the mill. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 252 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :A-no-no Bay New Caledonia [ca 1850]
Date: 1848 - 1854
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-019
Description: Shows the mouth of a small stream emptying into a large bay, with mountains in the distance. In the left foreground is a native hut with figures standing and sitting outside it, an outrigger canoe pulled up on the riverbank and another outrigger in the stream. At the other side of the stream outlet is another hut, a canoe and three figures with staffs. There is a canoe with a sail in the near part of the bay, and a sailing ship further into the distance. Several palm trees are in parts of the foreground. No current geographical name similar to A-no-no has been found Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 250 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Taranaki, N.Z. Mount Egmont 1860
Date: 1860
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-012
Description: View in New Plymouth, looking east towards Mount Taranaki, with St Mary's church below Marsland Hill and stockade in the centre, other buildings in the foreground, including another church [?], possibly the Wesleyan chapel, at the skyline on the left beside a cabbage tree, Huatoki Stream, two Maori families, a European on horseback at the stream's edge and two European women doing their washing in the stream. On the verso are streaks of blue paint, where the artist has tried out various colours Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in ink; Album page - beneath image - Taranaki N.Z. [images removed from album, but album is stored in the adjacant box] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 215 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :[Wellington Harbour? Between 1847 and 1860]
Date: 1847 - 1860
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-033
Description: Cabbage trees and flaxes in the foreground, framing a view of a harbour with steep hills. Likely to be Wellington Habour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 252 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)
Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :[Bush scene with flowering rata and young rimu, Wellin...
Date: 1846
From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860
By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
Reference: A-288-016
Description: Shows view looking down a slope on which a flowering rata is growing at the centre, and a rimu on the left. Further away and to the right are tree ferns, and a tree with vines hanging from it is at the right. There a hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 252 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)