Pagodas

Date: 1845

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-207-006

Description: Three views on one sheet. Across the top is a pagoda and houses, with low hills, seen from across a river. There is a junk in the left foreground; lower left, a Chinese temple or house, with curved roof features, and a small boat; bottom right, closeup views of buildings, one with Chinese script above the door Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Sketched on Ashworth's voyage from Sydney to China, before he returned to England Quantity: 3 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, various sizes, on sheet 247 x 209 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1814

By: Times (London, England)

Reference: C-050-010

Description: Three drawings for proposed buildings in St James and Green Parks, London, including a plan of St James Parkl and The Mall Other Titles - Published in: The Times, 2 Ag. 1814. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Print of pen drawing, 20.5 x 9 ins

Date: 1887

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907

Reference: E-022-q-019

Description: Looking across a river towards a large number of houses and temples. The highest point is dominated by a pagoda with an especially large tower. Several boats are being rowed in the river, the one on the left with a large sail Published as a chromolithograph, with title Moulmain, Burmah, from the river, in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, opposite page 132 Other Titles - Moulmein. Burma. Myanmar Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image (in red ink) title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1817

By: Abbot, Charles, active 1817

Reference: A-194-003

Description: Junks in the foreground with pagoda-type buildings in the background Extended Title - From Ellis, Henry. Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China (London, 1817), opposite p 138 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph (hand-coloured), 200 x 275 mm

Date: 1967

From: [Calendars for the years of the 1960s, of approximately A3 size].

By: Dowker Calendars Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-CALENDAR-1967-01

Description: Calendar for 1967, with the small calendar pad attached below a three-quarter length photographic pin-up picture of a naked blonde-wigged woman, posed in front of a dark painting of a pagoda. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print 227 x 202 mm, stuck to light card 380 x 248 mm, with calendar pad 74 x 122 mm, stapled on Provenance: Donated by the Shum family, Wellington, in 2011.

Date: 1926

From: Wellington City Council :Negatives of Wellington taken for the Wellington City Council, chiefly by Frank Giles Barker

Reference: 1/1-024615-G

Description: View of the pond and pagoda in the Wellington Botanic Gardens in Kelburn. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1926. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Gelatin dry plate negative

Date: 1912

From: [Ephemera, sales catalogues, and advertising for retail firms, traders, shops and stores. 1911-1919]

By: Robert Rew (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-RETAIL-1912-01-24-opp

Description: Shows an arrangement of text around a logo for "Reliable" tea, featuring an elephant carrying a pagoda, inside a circle. Extended Title - In "Rew's sure guide to economy" ca 1912, opposite page 24. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on page of sales catalogue.. Physical Description: Offset print 102 x 125 mm, on page 244 x 155 mm.

Date: 1882 - 1884

Reference: Eph-C-BEVERAGE-Tea-1882-01

Description: Shows elegantly dress woman holding a cup of tea inside a red triangular frame, with a pagoda behind her. On either side are pictures of tea plants in flower, insets of scenes in India, China and Ceylon, and of medals won at the New Zealand Exhibition of 1882. The left side of the image shows insets of a tea factory interior, and Nelson Moate stores in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Other Titles - Sold by all grocers in every town and village in New Zealand. Inscriptions: Printed with more advertisements on verso. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 245 x 369 mm.

Date: 2014

From: Winter, Mark, 1958- : Digital cartoons published in the Southland Times and other papers

Reference: DCDL-0029870

Description: Accompanying note from the cartoonist states, 'APEC's summit meeting in Beijing this week, but one leader who will feel very much out in the cold is Vladimir Putin, over his stance on the Ukraine'. Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1955?

From: Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]

Reference: Eph-C-CABOT-Magic-1955-01

Description: Poster/illustration / photograph shows a white-haired performer and his assistant, both in Eastern costume, standing beside a chest labelled "Gold Silver", on a stage surrounded by curtained proscenium arch. Chinese lantern hang abovre, and there is a large model pagoda behind the chest at centre stage. At left and right are models of dragons, archways and parasols. Magician's identity assumed from photographs; see Nelson photo news', 24 June 1961, page 4; https://photonews.org.nz/nelson/issue/NPN8_19610624/t1-body-d4.html accessed 7 February 2019 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Coloured by Leah Stinear Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph with gouache and gold paint, 245 x 400 mm.