Artist and South Canterbury runholder. Arrived in Canterbury with his brother George in April 1867. In 1868 they took up Raincliff Station, South Canterbury. He later returned to England, marrying in 1875 and dying in London
Packe, William, 1840?-1882
There are 6 related items to this topic
Image
Packe, William, d 1882 :The Erewhon country. [Christmas card]. New Zealand House, Londo...
Date: 1956
By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)
Reference: E-278-q-119
Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Packe showing two thatched sod huts, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad Southern Alps beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 128 x 178 mm on folded card
Image
[Various artists] :B P calendar, 1983
Date: 1983
By: British Petroleum Company; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Babington, Thomas A, active 1860s; Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900; Richmond, James Crowe, 1822-1898; Packe, William, 1840?-1882
Reference: C-086-1983-03
Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: C D Barraud's White Terraces, ca 1880; William Fox's Onehunga, ca 1863; Thomas Babington's Sterndale, the home of C R Shaw at Totara Valley, 1860s; John Horsfall's Taita, 1875; J C Richmond's Lake Tennyson (later reidentified as Lake Guyon), ca 1869; William Packe's Huts on Mesopotamia, ca 1868. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar
Image
Packe, William d 1882 :[Huts on Mesopotamia at Samuel Butler's homestead. ca 1868]
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882
Reference: A-036-010
Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Photograph of the Library's watercolour of the same title Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour 126 x 173 mm
Manuscript
Packe - Parker
Date: 1870-1873, 1880-1887
From: Haast family: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-0037-126
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Image
[Various artists] :New Zealand Information Service calendar, [Wellington] 1974.
Date: 1973
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. Information Service
Reference: C-086-1974-02
Description: Reproductions of watercolours from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Include C Heaphy's View of Nelson Haven, 1841 and his View of the Kahu-Kahu (Kohu Kohu) 1839; J C Hoyte's Goldmining at the Thames; J Kinder's Saint Mark's Anglican Church, ('Old Church') Remuera; W. Packe's Huts on Mesopotamia and G H Page's Auckland, 1848 Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar
Online
Image
Packe, William d 1882 :[Huts on Mesopotamia at Samuel Butler's homestead. ca 1868]
Date: 1868 - 1870
By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936
Reference: A-196-015
Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 mm