Brackenfield Hunt (Amberley, N.Z.)

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: [Ephemera of octavo size relating to horses, horse breeding, horse shows, horse jumping, in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-HORSE-1890s-01

Description: Single sheet containing the words of a song of five verses, a chorus, and an encore verse. The verses describe a hunt meeting, naming the horses and their riders. Some of the club members are named: John Oliver, Chapman, Gray, Miss Andrews, the Baileys, Bachelor, Crossley, Ensor, Hoare, Perry, Lane, Martin, Bailey, McQuillan, Kempthorne, Clarkson (who was the club's treasurer for some years). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on green paper, 210 x 112 mm.

Date: 1862

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007; Cornes, Don, active 1974-1995

Reference: B-121-020

Description: Shows Weld's third New Zealand home "Brackenfield" near Amberley with his wife and two oldest children in the foreground. A horse is beside Mrs Weld and the two children. The house and garden look newly established with clumps of cabbage trees and flaxes in flower and flower gardens closer to the house. There is a conservatory to the right of the house and another building, probably a barn, to the far right. To the left of the house is a small chapel. The Welds married in March 1859, so the two children, two-and-a half years later are likely to be the two oldest. Weld purchased the initial 304 acres of land for Brackenfield in July 1861. The 16-room kauri house, its timber shipped from Auckland, was demolished in 1964. Weld also laid out the park-like grounds and imported English deer and game birds. The chapel, one of the first Catholic churches in Canterbury, was moved from the Brackenfield entrance in the 1950s to the main road through Amberley Other Titles - Amberley Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Brackenfield N Z F.A.W. Nov 1862 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 248 x 358 mm Provenance: Purchased by Don Cornes in Melbourne from Julian Sterling, owner of Southern Cross Gallery, Exhibition Street, ca 1973. Brought to New Zealand. (Information from Don Cornes, personal communication 19 April 1995). Purchased at Dunbar Sloane's, Wellington, by Dr Neville Hogg for $1400 in 1977.

Date: 1863

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-006

Description: View looking up a small stream towards a bridge, with flax, toetoe, cabbage trees and perhaps manuka, looking towards hills in the background. Brackenfield was in North Canterbury, near the Kowai River Compare an almost identical view by Georgina Bowen 'Approach to Mr Weld's house Brackenfield on the Kowai, Canty, NZ [January 1863]' (Non-atl-p-0053-013). Inscriptions: Mount recto - Brackenfield, South Island (mount now discarded). On verso, in ink, in Weld's hand: Bridge near the lodge, Brackenfield January 29 1864 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 131 x 254 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.