Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Listed in Benezit as a watercolourist of the English school. According to Grave's Dictionary of artists, he exhibited 349 watercolours at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour. Father of C H Maplestone, and possibly of Miss Florence E Maplestone. Painted a number of New Zealand subjects, but all appear to be copies or adaptations of prints by New Zealand artists. He is not thought to have visited New Zealand.

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Artist unknown :Residence of the Revd C L Reay and the Revd H F Butt, near Nelson. Vinc...

Date: 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Stanford, Edward, active 1857-1865

Reference: A-256-014-a

Description: cf. watercolour by H Maplestone. [The parsonage residences of the Rev. C L Reay and the Rev. H F Butt (Deacon), Nelson] 1849. Extended Title - Illustration from: Hursthouse, C F. New Zealand, or, Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, Stanford, 1857, p. 122. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 90 x 160 mm on sheet 110 x 180 mm

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :The Maplestone prints, 1969. Wellington; The Alexander T...

Date: 1849 - 1969

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: C-028-024/026

Description: Contents: New Plymouth, 1849; Hawkestone Street, Wellington, 1849; Stoke, Nelson, 1849 Sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken. `Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings, New Zealand. `Published in an edition of 2,500 sets...' Note on each print: `The original is in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.' Other Titles - Folder title: Three colonial views from watercolours by H Maplestone Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs, 292 x 433 mm

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :The Maplestone prints, 1969. Wellington; The Alexander T...

Date: 1849 - 1969

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: C-028-024-a/026-a

Description: Contents: New Plymouth, 1849; Hawkestone Street, Wellington, 1849; Stoke, Nelson, 1849 Sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken. `Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings, New Zealand. `Published in an edition of 2,500 sets...' Note on each print: `The original is in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.' Other Titles - Folder title: Three colonial views from watercolours by H Maplestone Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs, 292 x 433 mm

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[Various artists] :Alexander Turnbull Library calendar, 1984

Date: 1984

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925; Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-086-1984-01

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: Charles Heaphy's Mount Egmont from the Southward, 1840 and his Thorndon Flat, 1841; Henry Maplestone's Mr Jollie's house, Nelson, 1842; C D Barraud's White Terraces, ca 1880; William Fox's In the Aglionby, 1846; Emily Harris' Dianella intermedia, blue berry or turutu, 1890s; John Gully's View of Mount Cook, 1862. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :[The parsonage, Te Henui, Taranaki] 1849

Date: 1849

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Good, Thomas, 1823-1907

Reference: B-065-005

Description: The parsonage building in a garden setting, another house to its right and another in the distance on the far left, amid rolling hills and partially cleared bush. Mount Egmont is in the distance on the far right Derived from: Hursthouse, C, An account of the settlement of New Plymouth... London, 1849. Henui Vicarage: opp. p. 65, this being after a drawing by Thomas Good. Rev. Henry Govett was the incumbent minister by 1848 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: H Maplestone There is another drawing of the vicarage by Cuthbert Clarke, The Parsonage Te Henui, 1851, in the British Library, Add. MS 19954, folio 31, (34), copies in Photo file and at E-144-031 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 231 x 442 mm

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[Various artists] :Alexander Turnbull Library calendar, 1984

Date: 1984

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Alexander Turnbull Library; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925; Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-086-1984-01-a

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: Charles Heaphy's Mount Egmont from the Southward, 1840 and his Thorndon Flat, 1841; Henry Maplestone's Mr Jollie's house, Nelson, 1842; C D Barraud's White Terraces, ca 1880; William Fox's In the Aglionby, 1846; Emily Harris' Dianella intermedia, blue berry or turutu, 1890s; John Gully's View of Mount Cook, 1862. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar

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[Various artists] :B P calendar, 1980

Date: 1980

By: British Petroleum Company; Welch, Joseph Sandell, 1841-1918; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: C-086-1980-03

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six watercolours from the Alexander Turnbull Library: J C Hoyte's Auckland Harbour, 1869 and his Lake Horowhenua 1866?; W M Hodgkins' Sumner River, 1870; Henry Maplestone's New Plymouth, 1849; J S Welch's Otago Heads, 1870s; John Gully's Sources of the Godley, 1862. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph in calendar

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :The Maplestone prints, 1969. Wellington; The Alexander T...

Date: 1849 - 1969

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: C-028-024-b/026-b

Description: Contents: New Plymouth, 1849; Hawkestone Street, Wellington, 1849; Stoke, Nelson, 1849 Sheet of descriptive text from which title is taken. `Produced by Pictorial Publications Ltd., Hastings, New Zealand. `Published in an edition of 2,500 sets...' Note on each print: `The original is in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.' Other Titles - Folder title: Three colonial views from watercolours by H Maplestone Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Loose coloured photolithographs, 292 x 433 mm

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :[Mr Jollie's house, Nelson], 1849.

Date: 1849 - 1845

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-004

Description: Shows Francis Jollie's house, Thackwood, where nowadays Rutherford St is, to the north-east of the Cathedral. Harvesters and stooks of wheat in foreground. Previously believed to show Stoke, Nelson, it has been discovered by staff of Nelson Museum to be similar to extreme left-hand portion of Saxton's painting, The town and part of the harbour of Nelson in 1842, published in Wakefield, E J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845, Plate 7. The buildings are at a later stage of development, however. Inscriptions: Signed: H Maplestone Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 295 x 445 mm

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Artist unknown :Residence of the Revd C L Reay and the Revd H F Butt, near Nelson. Vinc...

Date: 1857

By: Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Stanford, Edward, active 1857-1865; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-256-014

Description: Two colonial cottages within fenced gardens. On a road to the left, a couple is promenading cf. watercolour by H Maplestone. [The parsonage residences of the Rev. C L Reay and the Rev. H F Butt (Deacon), Nelson] 1849. Maplestone is thought to have copied this lithograph Extended Title - Illustration from: Hursthouse, C F. New Zealand, or, Zealandia, the Britain of the South. London, Stanford, 1857, p. 122. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph, 90 x 160 mm on sheet 110 x 180 mm

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :[The parsonage residences of the Rev C L Reay and the Re...

Date: 1849

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-003

Description: Two cottages enclosed within fenced gardens, with Nelson Haven and ships visible to the right and a road to the left, with families and a horse and cart passing along it. Maplestone is not known to have visited New Zealand and despite the date of 1849 almost certainly copied this image from the lithograph published in C. F. Hursthouse's 'New Zealand, or Zealandia, the Britain of the South' (London, Stanford, 1857), p. 122 - see copy held at A-256-014. The 1849 date is likely reflect the stage to which Nelson was developed, rather than the date of execution. Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: H Maplestone These two houses were in Selwyn Place, below the Cathedral and approximately where the Nelson Club now is. Mr Butt conducted a school in Upper Collingwood Street. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 287 x 446 mm

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819-1884 :[New Plymouth]. 1849.

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884

Reference: B-065-002

Description: View looking across the settlement to the Sugar Loaves. Shows bullock teams coming from the beach at the right, and men clearing the bush in the right foreground. In the left foreground a Maori tends three goats. At the centre is Mount Eliot, with the summer residence of Sir George Grey (formerly that of J. T. Wicksteed). The view is derived from "View of Mount Eliot ... " in C. F. Hursthouse's "An account of the settlement of New Plymouth ..." (London, 1849), opp. p.76. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H. Maplestone Maplestone is believed not ever to have come to New Zealand. At the time Maplestone dated his paintings, Brees was displaying in London and elsewhere his New Zealand panorama, and Hursthouse was lecturing on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 305 x 460 mm.

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Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884 :[Hawkestone Street, Thorndon, Wellington] 1849

Date: 1849 - 1842 - 1845

By: Maplestone, Henry, 1819?-1884; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: B-065-001

Description: Shows a group of Maori on a high bank on the left watching a long parade of soldiers marching down Hawkestone Street from near Tinakori Road towards the harbour. The home of S C Brees is in the centre middle distance Derived from: View looking down Hawkstone Street ... Pl 13 no 39 in Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand by S C Brees. London 1847. Brees' original drawn between 1842 and 1845 included Maori dragging a waka down the road, rather than soldiers Other: the Library also holds Brees' original watercolour for this view, reference number B-030-021 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - H Maplestone 1849 (in brushpoint) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 305 x 455 mm