Kept a scrapbook in England dated February 1869 containing some Charles Heaphy drawings. née Roberts, wife of William Smellie Grahame, Auckland merchant and landowner. The pair married in Auckland on 15 August 1844, and had a son, John Smellie Grahame. They returned to England in about 1856 or 1857. Anne Grahame died in Surrey in March 1869. Their son donated a watercolour of Auckland waterfront by Heaphy to Auckland Art Gallery.
Grahame, Anne, -1869
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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :The Aorere Valley Massacre Bay Nelson [1843]
Date: 1843
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Grahame, Anne, -1869; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961
Reference: A-147-006
Description: Shows high view to the Aorere River between rapids at right, winding past centre and out to Golden Bay in left distance at site of present-day Collingwood. In centre foreground a party of trampers or surveyors rest with Maori guides(?). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy; Undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash 210 x 280 mm Provenance: According to notes on back by Alfred Walter Francis Fuller, 12 February 1926, "this came out of an old scrap album made up by Anne Grahame and dated 12 February 1869".
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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :The anchorage at Massacre Bay. Aorere mountains in the dista...
Date: 1843
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961; Grahame, Anne, -1869
Reference: B-043-005
Description: Shows several sailing ships in the bay (Tata Beach) seen from high up, with two outlying islands (Tata Islands) in the middle distance. Several Maori craft are shown, including two canoes pulled up beside huts on the beach at bottom left corner. On a promontory at centre foreground, a group of three Maori rest, with a European who has set up a theodolite on tripod. Other Titles - Golden Bay Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy; Undated. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and wash 207 x 282 mm Provenance: According to note on back, by Alfred Walter Francis Fuller, 12 February 1926, this "came out of an old scrap album made up by Anne Grahame and dated 12 February 1869".
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Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Charge of the Light Brigade. [1869?]
Date: 1860 - 1854 - 1869
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961; Grahame, Anne, -1869
Reference: A-147-007
Description: Shows a wounded cavalry soldier slightly slumped back on his horse, with his sword dangling from the strap at his right wrist. Another riderless horse is in the left background. Text of poem also in Heaphy's hand. Tennyson read of the event in December 1854, and wrote the poem, which was published on 9 December 1854. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy; Recto - beneath image - (In pencil, probable written in 1926): Done by Chas Heaphy (the Artist and Surveyor in N.Z. of the N.Z. Company) for the scrap album of Anne Grahame, 12 Feby 1869. Some of his interesting N.Z. views of Towns have been published. / A.W.F. Fuller. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on second page of folded sheet containing copied text of poem.. Physical Description: Ink, image 160 x 140 mm, on sheet folded in half to 282 x 230 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by A W F Fuller (inscription signed by him, lower right). Appears to have previously been part of an album