New Zealand artist. Daughter of Thomas Outhwaite, Registrar of the Auckland Supreme Court and his French wife Louisa. Outhwaite Park in Auckland is the site of the family home. A friend of Suzanne Aubert's and wrote many letters to her. Exhibited in Auckland. (Some of this information from Una Platts' 'Nineteenth century New Zealand artists', although some details are incorrect in Platts; some as a personal communication from a possible biographer of the Outhwaite family, Mrs Jill Williamson, Auckland, 10 Sep 1998).
Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925
Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925 :View of Auckland Heads and residence of the lat...
Date: 1885
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925
Reference: A-176-012
Description: Shows Swainson's home at Judge's Bay, now the site of the Parnell Rose Gardens, with a view out to the Harbour, with North Head and Rangitoto. A willow tree and a Norfolk pine are distinguishable amongst the plants on the right. Inscriptions: On separate label: View of Auckland Head and residence of the late Hon. W. Swainson first Attorney-General of New Zealand by Miss Isa Outhwaite of Auckland, artist, 1885. Taurarua.; Verso - Taurarua. With I. O's love Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 153 mm
Graphic, London :A New Zealand excursion by two ladies H. Harral sc. [London] March 29,...
Date: 1784
By: Graphic (London, England); Harral, Horace, active 1862-1876; Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Nolan, Gertrude Flora Cooke, -1934
Reference: B-033-001
Description: Nine engravings of an excursion that began at Waitangi and went to Taheke, Herd's Point, Waitangi Falls, Rakau Para School and Tautahihi Another annotated copy is held in Gertrude Flora Yarborough's album, 1878 (E-881-f-032/033) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w ; 299 x 498 mm
Personal inward correspondence - O-P
Date: [1840s-1870s]
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0989
Description: Includes letters written to Miss Susan Strang from members of the Outhwaite family Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Gardner, Francis Shayle, 1890-1945: Papers
Date: 1915-1917
By: Gardner, Francis Shayle, 1890-1945
Reference: MS-Papers-11856
Description: Letters, postcards and envelopes, mainly addressed to Shayle Gardner during his military service in World War One. Twelve envelopes (with no letters) which mostly have stamps, and three postcards. Letters include: Letter from Aunt Minnie of 14D Manukau Road, Parnell, on 15 Sep 1916. Mainly personal content. Mentions sending him 20 pairs of socks at the Featherston Military camp, also that Missy Mowbray had a cake to send him. Letter from Isa Outhwaite of Auckland on 22 Sep 1916. Asks him to place the "sacre coeur" medal [she sent him] inside his tunic, and says that it was blessed for him. Letter from R W Cumming [?] of 16th Waikato Regiment, Sling, on 19 Jan 1917. Letter from Michael Joseph, 5 May 1917, from "Somewhere Out West". Brings news of their mutual acquaintances and comments on the weather: "The weather is really splendid here now. Being a great lover of hot weather in preference to a French winter at all events I am muchly in my glory..." Postcard to Shayle Gardner from Robinson McBain, 7 March 1917. Robinson & McBain was a London tailor. Postcard from R H Poynting to Norman Ebbutt (RNVR), 19.II.15. Postcard to Shayle Gardner from Pout[?], date stamped 26 March 1917. Written from West Norwood. One plastic [?] keyring labelled L.G. kitbag, with two small keys attached with string. Source of title - Supplied by Library Quantity: 1 folder(s). 1 curio(s) Key ring with two small keys attached 'L.G. Kitbag'. 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss
Inward correspondence - Oet to Ove
Date: 1877-1898
From: McLean family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0032-0859
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Names entered in Name Field. Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Two watercolours on a card by Isa Orthwaite removed from letter dated 29 Dec 1910.
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and phot...
Date: 1878
By: Nolan, Gertrude Flora Cooke, -1934
Reference: E-881-f
Description: Scrapbook thought to have been compiled by Miss Gertrude Flora Cooke Yarborough to record her travels, including a trip made in New Zealand in the company of artist Isa Outhwaite. The artworks are possibly by both women but are not signed. The scrapbook includes photographs of Miss Outhwaite, members of the Yarborough family including Alfred Cooke Yarborough of Hokianga (Gertrude's brother). Includes watercolours and photographs in the Channel Islands, Florence, the Hokianga harbour; Mr von Sturmer, Miss Marriner, Mr & Mrs Andrewes, Miss Webster, Sydney Weetman; Mangamuka, Opara, Mokoia Island, Ohinemutu, Blue Lake, Pink & White Terraces, Lake Tarawera; Egypt, County Wicklow, Glendalough, Aden, Europe. The inside back page includes a page from Debrett's Peerage 1925, showing the extended family of Sir William Henry Charles Wemyss Cooke; this includes Gertrude Flora Cooke Yarborough, and her brother Alfred Cooke Yarborough (born 1847). Also includes a 1933 invoice to Miss S L Nolan of Caulfield, Melbourne (a daughter or descendant of Gertrude F C Yarborough who married Lyster Andrew Nolan in 1884); 15 loose prints of Shakespearean poems and plays, published by Virtue and Company Ltd London. The Graphic (London), 29 March 1879, pages 316-317 shows nine sketches illustrative of "A New Zealand Excursion by Two Ladies". These are said to be by Isa Outhwaite; page 315 describes the trip she took with "a genuine English lady, and myself, a true colonial". Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album of 37 leaves bound in red-brown morocco, brown leather spine with gilt decoration, 430 x 340 mm. Transfers: Some loose photographs from the album transferred to Photographic Archive PAColl-9314..
[Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], fl 1870-1917 :Steward? [Tarawera 9th March 1882?].
Date: 1882
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-051-2
Description: Shows a sketch of a European woman (possibly Isa Outhwaite) reclining in a rowing boat, probably on Lake Tarawera. Behind her sits a Maori woman, perhaps a guide, who wears a hat and is smoking a pipe. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 51, top right image. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 215 x 108 mm.
Various photographers :[New Zealand-related portrait photographs. 1877-1879]
Date: 1877 - 1879
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
Reference: E-881-f-031
Description: Includes a view of Auckland, a head and shoulders portrait of a young man (one of the men in the triple portrait on page 28, possibly Mr Shadwell), a studio portrait of a young couple (possibly Mr & Mrs Taylor - see Mrs Taylor as a bride on page 38); a grouping of an older man (probably Thomas Outhwaite) with Miss Outhwaite and Isa [Outhwaite], and a grouping with C E Cooke accompanied with portraits presumably of his wife and four children. Ink drawings around the Outhwaite group show manuka and rimu flowers and leaves. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, page 31 Quantity: 11 photograph(s). 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia photographs, sizes varying, with ink and wash decoration and drawing, on page 412 x 305 mm.
Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925 :Views in the hot lake district. Auckland, N Z, ...
Date: 1884
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Webster, D I (Mr), active 1960
Reference: A-161-012
Description: 6 vignettes framed by a 7th drawing of a cabbage tree, with a small Maori settlement overlooking Lake Rotorua and Mokoia Island. The other views are named as Rotokakahi [Lake], Bridge near Lake Rotoiti, Wairoa [i.e. Te Wairoa with a small settlement and a path leading up into hills], Zion Chapel Wairoa Tarawera, Tarawera, and Road to Wairoa. Inscriptions: Signed: Isa Outhwaite del. Quantity: 7 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, 149 x 119 mm
[Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa (Isa)], 1842-1925 :[Nine sketches illustrative of "A New Z...
Date: 1877 - 1879
From: [Yarborough, Gertrude Flora Cooke], d 1934 :[Scrapbook of watercolours, prints and photographs, 1878 and later].
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Harral, Horace, active 1862-1876; Graphic (London, England)
Reference: E-881-f-032/033
Description: Nine engravings that appeared in the Graphic, from a trip taken by Miss Outhwaite and probably Gertrude Flora Cooke-Yarborough, in about December 1877. The trip began at Waitangi and went to Taheke, Herd's Point, Waitangi Falls, Rakau Para School, Tautahihi. Mr von Sturmer, Mrs Yarborough and Mr Marriner are mentioned in the handwritten notes. A published account of the journey is in the Graphic (London), 29 March 1879, page 315. Extended Title - From Gertrude Flora Yarborough's scrapbook of watercolours ... 1878 and after, pages 32-33 Quantity: 9 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, sizes varying, with handwritten text in ink and pencil, on double page spread 412 x 610 mm.
Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa (Isa), 1842-1925 :[Auckland Harbour; and, Maori canoe. Two ...
Date: 1909 - 1910
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925
Reference: A-329-008
Description: One folded card showing two small scenes on its front cover. The top scene is a view of Auckland Harbour from Mount Eden. The lower scene shows a Maori canoe off the coast with a sailboat and mountains in the distance. Artist and date taken from date of accompanying letter to "Douglas" dated 29th Feb[?] 1910 (MS-Papers-0032-0859). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on folded sheet, 179 x 127 mm (folded) Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-0032-0859. - Transferred from Donald McLean papers - MS-Papers-0032-0859..
[Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa (Isa)], 1842-1925 :[Auckland from the Birkenhead Cemetery....
Date: 1870
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925
Reference: A-389-005
Description: A cemetery on a grassy hill in the left foreground, bush on the lower slopes, part of the harbour and the houses of Auckland in the distance, with the peak of Rangitoto in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 270 mm.
Outhwaite, Isa, 1842-1925 :[Parnell, looking towards North Head and Rangitoto] Isa del....
Date: 1864 - 1867
By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925; Sewell, John Augustus George Frederick, 1826-
Reference: A-389-004
Description: Shows a view looking towards St Barnabas Church and Parnell Rise at the right, and across to North head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. In the left foreground, a soldier on horseback is stopped beside two women standing on the verandah of a house. Some buildings in the vicinity at left may be part of the Albert Barracks. M T after the original artist's name stands for Military Train, an Army Regiment managing baggage transport Other Titles - January; Esquire; Military Train; John George Augustus Sewell Inscriptions: Verso - top left - Isa del. Jan 22nd 1867 [underlined]. After a sketch by J Sewell Esqur. M. T. 1864' [in ink, in the hand of Louisa Outhwaite] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 167 x 244 mm.