Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Date: 1852 - 1880 - 1857 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-006

Description: Shows interior of church with Minister giving sermon, and congregation standing or sitting on floor. Features red columns and carved rafters. Lantern slide after Barraud's "Interior of Otake church, New Zealand", lithograph, published by Day & Son, London, 1852. Dating: the firm W E & F Newton was based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden frame) between 1852 and 1857 Other Titles - Interior of Otake church, New Zealand Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 77 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1830 - 1880 - 1852 - 1832 - 1890 - 1857

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-008

Description: Shows missionary settlement at Rangihoua, Bay of Islands. After an almost identical image (which however has 2 larger sailing ships in the foreground) "Church missionary settlement at Rangihoua, N.Z.", published in Church Missionary Quarterly Papers, midsummer 1832, no. 66, cover page; and, "[Missionary settlement at Rangihoua on the North side of the Bay of Islands c.1830]", an oil painting in the Rex Nan Kivell collection. This latter also features two vessels in foreground sea. Dating: the firm W E & F Newton (stamped on the wooden frame) was based at 3 Fleet Street from 1852 to 1857 Other Titles - Church missionary settlement at Rangihoua Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 30 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1880 - 1857 - 1890

By: W E & F Newton (Firm); Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-007

Description: Shows view of Wanganui wharf, Christ Church, and Rutland Stockade, framed by cave entrance, with three Maori figures in foreground. Loosely based on Richard Taylor's "Wanganui, NZ" (1848), at E-296-q-159, combined with the wood engraving in the Church Missionary Gleaner (1884, p. 83, a re-illustration of an 1850s view] 'The mission station at Wanganui, as seen from a natural cave in the rocks'. Dating: W E & F Newton were based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden surround) between 1852 and 1857 A likeness of this scene is at Curios-042-013, Wanganui and cave New Zealand, by the same publishers Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 35 Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.

Date: 1887 - 1897 - 1852 - 1857

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-005

Description: Shows a group of Maori schoolboys seated around a desk in a classroom, with a teacher in top hat standing in the doorway behind. In front of the group on the floor are another top hat and two wide-brimmed straw hats, the latter presumably belonging to the schoolboys. The Jubilee refers to the 1849 50th jubilee of the Church Missionary Society. Loosely based on the Church Missionary Gleaner for 1850 / 1851 (published London, 1852). On p. 145 there is a wood engraving 'New Zealand chiefs drawing up a reply to the Society's jubilee letter' showing the Rev. Richard Taylor in the background, the chiefs in European dress and the incident in question dating from 24th December 1849. The chiefs have been converted in the lantern slide version into schoolboys Dating: the firm W E & F Newton was based at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden frame) between 1852 and 1857 Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (No. in ink on frame): 58; Across the top of the frame: title in ink Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-colouring on glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm. (Magic lantern slide)

Date: 1833 - 1880 - 1852 - 1835 - 1890 - 1857

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; W E & F Newton (Firm); Brackenbury, Carole, active 1989

Reference: Curios-021-004

Description: Shows British yacht with four sails, amongst nine waka, four of them with single sails erected. Dating: W E and F Newton, opticians and globe makers, were located at 3 Fleet Street (the address printed on the wooden frame) between 1852 and 1857 Other Titles - Expedition on its way to Tauranga in 1833. New Zealand war expedition. Inscriptions: Verso - (Embossed on frame at left and right of image): W.E. & F. Newton / OPTICIANS / & GlobeMakers / TO THE QUEEN / 3 Fleet St Temple Bar / LONDON; (Number in ink on frame): 55 Almost identical to engraving entitled: "New Zealand War expedition", published in Church Missionary Quarterly papers, no. LXXVII, Lady Day, 1835; from an original drawing by Henry Williams: "Expedition on its way to Tauranga in 1833". Quantity: 1 curio(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured glass, 80 mm diameter (sight), in wooden frame 101 x 165 mm.