Agaves

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-045

Description: View of a coconut palm, an agave in flower (not an aloe) and a large fig tree Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 170 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1899

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waimate sketchbook] 1896-1913.

Reference: E-363-q-035

Description: Shows a large agave in flower on the beach in the right foreground, an island to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1810

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-041

Description: A small cottage in the middle distance, and three larger stone buildings in the left foreground, with two agaves in flower. The lake is on the right Title written on back Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 85 x 140 mm Provenance: Purchased: Trevor Healy Auction, 11 May 1971.

Date: 1920 - 1930

From: Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911-1982 :[Wellington scenes, 1920s to 1970s?]

By: Gellatly, R D, active 1988; Mitchell, Mary Stewart, 1911?-1982

Reference: A-281-016

Description: Shows city buldings, harbour and hills from the road at Point Jerningham. Plantings on the land just above the road include agaves. The Hunter Building, Victoria University, stands out in Kelburn Titles from artist's inscriptions on pinex backing boards, now discarded. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Title taken from backing board, now discarded. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 243 x 312 mm. Provenance: Donated by the artist's son, Mr R. D. Gellatly, Newlands, in 1988.

Date: [Circa 1890s]

By: Mannering, George Edward, 1862-1947; Burton Brothers (Dunedin, N.Z.); Fox, C D, active 1890s; Edmund Wheeler & Son (Firm)

Reference: PA1-o-325

Description: Album created by G E Mannering, some photographs taken by him. A number of these are of children, only identified by nick-names, or Christian names; and one of an older man in a top hat is named `Grandad'. Several views of the children are taken at the beach at New Brighton in 1893. An interior photograph of an office `The consulting desk' was taken by `HMP'. Photographs also include a scene of hay making, and several of scenes relating to sheep farming, including sheep drafting, and one of 120 bales of wool from `Double Hill Estate' loaded onto four wagons, towed by W.A. McLaren's traction engine. Other scenes in Christchurch include the Christchurch Cathedral; and early photographs of Christ's College, when the buildings were in `corrugated iron Tudor' style; and a house with a century plant (agave americana) in the foreground. The rest of the scenes are mixed, with a few tourist scenes of Maori outside a meeting house, and a group in a hot spring at Tokaanu, and a newspaper cutting with photograph of Rewi Maniapoto from the Christchurch Press (no date). One photograph shows George Edward Mannering with a group on Mount Hutt. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue buckram cover, with `A. P. Mannering Album, 4444-4485' lettered in gold on spine; 25 x 33 cm

Date: 1838

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-206-002

Description: A street scene with houses lining the street on the left, further houses rising up the rock behind. In the foreground are two soldiers, one on horseback. An agave is on the right 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. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 183 x 133 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1917

By: Jones, Ethel Susan, 1870-1952

Reference: A-113-004

Description: A view across a garden with a herbacious border in the foreground, a large lawn, trees to the side and an agave in flower. In the background is 'Birtley' a two-storeyed house with verandah around the ground floor, the front entrance in the centre Pencil drawings of a whatnot, a seat and a fence on the back Catalogued by the Library on acquisition as 'House in Parnell Road, Auckland, 1917'. However the inscription on the reverse is 'House in Parnell Park'. The house shown, 'Birtley' belonged to the Street family then the Gillies family, with the land becoming Parnell Park, later Parnell Rose Gardens Possibly the work of Ethel S. Jones. The style is similar to hers, and she painted other buildings in the area around the same date 'Birtley' built by Mr and Mrs Charles Street, was occupied after their death by their daughter, Emily Gillies and her family. The Gillies family sold their property in 1914 to Auckland City Council, and it became a kiosk downstairs, and flats upstairs. The house was demolished in 1927. Other Titles - Parnell Road [former title] Birtley, Gladstone Road [identification] Inscriptions: Verso - title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 175 x 251 mm

Date: 1907

From: [Chevalier, Caroline], 1836?-1917 :Sketchbook 1906-1908

Reference: E-065-1-012

Description: Agave and cactus in fruit, probably on the Riviera Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on sketchbook page, 158 x 241 mm

Date: 1877

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :The West Indies and the Orinoco

Reference: E-580-f-002

Description: Title page: A tall palm tree to the left, a man standing beneath it, looking across still water with a steamship, a tall rocky island and a larger hilly landmass beyond. There are several agaves in the foreground `View of cliffs and sea with Barbados Royal Palm', from descriptive notes accompanying transcription of Green's journal by Mrs B Baldock. See MS-Papers-6637) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on album page, 370 x 277 mm

Date: 1876

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-017/018

Description: View across a port area towards a fort on a headland, Two agaves and pencil cypresss in the left foreground with towers and houses Inscriptions: Title and date on opposite page; also 'Has been washed out several times & falled [?] afterwds' [a reference to the artist's painting technique?] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1877

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :The West Indies and the Orinoco

Reference: E-580-f-014

Description: View of a headland and a steamship approaching Trinidad and passing through the heads (known as The Dragon's Mouth). Cacti, agave and other tropical plants are growing on the hilltop in the foreground. `The Bocas de Hueros, approaching Trinidad. The "Dragon's Mouth"' - taken from notes accompanying Mrs B Baldock's transcription of Rev Green's journal, at MS-Papers-6637. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 244 mm on album page, 370 x 277 mm

Date: 1853

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-211

Description: View of Havana and its port from hills behind the city, looking out to sea. Agaves or a similar plant on the slope in the left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 353 x 512 mm

Date: 2006

By: Impact Plants (Firm)

Reference: Eph-B-HORTICULTURE-Impact-2006-01

Description: Illustrated price list of succulents for gardens, pots or raised beds, including agaves, aloes, yuccas, cacti, palms and cycads. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on pamphlet, 297 x 210 mm.

Date: 1899

From: Walsh, Philip 1843-1914 :[Waimate sketchbook] 1896-1913.

Reference: E-363-q-034

Description: Drawings of the flowers of the agave - see E-363-q-035 for a view of the complete plant at Paihia Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 180 x 255 mm

Date: [ca 1928]

From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper

Reference: EP-4594-1/2-G

Description: Rock garden and at Botanical Gardens with tree fern and agave americana (in flower, to right), Kelburn, Wellington, circa 1928. Photographer unidentified. Note on back of file print reads "...This rockery is sited above the old brick stables and gardeners messroom and dates from the period 1902-1912. On the upper left can be seen native forest occupying the valley that runs down from behind the Dominion (now, 1988, Seismological) Observatory, to the old brick stables and messroom at the top of the Sunken Garden. [Written by Walter Cook]" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1841 - 1776 - 1779

By: Nyon, Eugene, active 1834-1848

Reference: A-384-068

Description: Sloping land with a Maori village, looking down to water, where two ships and a canoe can be seen. A palm tree and an agave on the left. Other Titles - View of a bay in New Zealand close to Queen Charlotte Sound [translation] Vista tomada en la Nueva Zelandia [Spanish version of the title]. View taken in New Zealand [translation] Extended Title - From 'Nouvelle bibliotheque des voyages". Paris, Dumenil, 1841. Volume 4, p. 310 (Plate 8) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Nyon sculp.; Recto - above image - Vista tomada en la Na. Zealandia. Nlle Bibliotheque des voyages. Tome 4, pl. 8; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, plate 130 x 190 mm, on page 140 x 208 mm.

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-129

Description: Shows an agave and palms, countryside, a river and a group of Sri Lankans Other Titles - Sri Lanka Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 240 x 344 mm

Date: 1830 - 1839

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :[Collection of sketches. 1830-1869]

Reference: E-011-f-013

Description: Shows Gibraltar township and harbour, and the Rock of Gibraltar. There are agave plants in the foreground. Extended Title - In his "Collection of sketches", 1830s. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 173 x 249 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1889

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-073-3

Description: A beach scene, looking towards Mount Maunganui. An agave grows in the foreground with a large cabbage tree to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - K H Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 174 x 243 mm

Date: Circa early 1900s?

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-2095-1/2-G

Description: An unidentified man standing beneath the huge flower stalk of an agave shawii plant, giving an indication of its height, with a native lancewood to the right. Unknown location. Photograph taken by Albert Percy Godber. Agave shawii blooms only when 15 years old or more. It has a huge flower stalk between 15 and 40 feet high, after which the plant dies leaving suckers that grow into replacement plants. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches