Mount Peel

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Banks Peninsula, Skippers Pass, Mt Peel, Rakaia, and Central Otago, 1868 to 1879]

Reference: E-032-1-029/030

Description: Looking across the plains towards Mount Peel. A side view of a horse, studies of tall trees, two tall ships Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 91 x 123 mm

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Banks Peninsula, Skippers Pass, Mt Peel, Rakaia, and Central Otago, 1868 to 1879]

Reference: E-032-1-027

Description: A panoramic view looking across the plains towards Mount Peel and the Southern Alps, with buildings roughly indicated to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 91 x 123 mm

Date: [197-?]

From: Wells, Robert E, 1905-2006 :Photographic negatives, prints and transparencies of the Mokau and other rural North Island districts, and scenic views of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7190

Description: Photographs of a dairy herd grazing in front of Mount Taranaki, coastline and mountain range at Kaikoura, and Mount Peel homestead in Canterbury, taken ca 1970s by Robert E Wells Quantity: 3 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-009

Description: A road surrounded by bush, heading towards mountains. Cabbage trees amongst the bush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Mary Medley's sketchbook No. 15. 1896-1899.

Reference: E-380-057

Description: Shows a house and possibly a small chapel amidst tall trees, beneath Mount Peel Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Mount Peel Canterbury Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895: [Sketches]

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-281-q-023

Description: A single-storey house surrounded by a fence, with a shed or further house beyond it, a conical hill and other foothills of the Southern Alps in the near background. A figure with a pole over one shoulder walks along a path to the right towards the house. The house is surrounded by cultivated fields. Another building and possibly a haystack are to the right. Arowhenua is close to modern Temuka, South Canterbury, on the Opihi River. Tarahaoa is the Maori name for Mount Peel, possibly the conical hill behind the house. Mount Peel is some 40 km distant from Arowhenua and appears closer in this view than the location of modern Arowhenua would suggest. The name Arowhenua was applied to a larger area in 1848 than in modern times Other Titles - Arowhenua Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil works, 57 x 103 mm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Banks Peninsula, Skippers Pass, Mt Peel, Rakaia, and Central Otago, 1868 to 1879]

Reference: E-032-1-024

Description: Looking west across the Canterbury Plains towards Mount Peel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 91 x 123 mm

Date: 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, including sketches of Banks Peninsula, Skippers Pass, Mt Peel, Rakaia, and Central Otago, 1868 to 1879]

Reference: E-032-1-028/029

Description: A seascape looking towards land. A view of Mount Peel from the east Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, page size 91 x 123 mm

Date: 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketches

Reference: E-346-3-001

Description: Mount Peel homestead, part of the chapel and part of the garden. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 163 x 224 mm

Date: 1938

Reference: PA1-q-052

Description: Album chiefly shows members of a Lands & Survey team surveying boundaries etc, in the Chatham Islands, and in South Canterbury, circa 1938. Residents of the Chatham Islands, various locations in the islands and activities such as sheep transportation from the islands to Lyttelton and Wellington by ship are shown. Another sequence shows drainage and irrigation procedures in South Canterbury. The photographer is probably Russell Gladstone Dick, later the New Zealand Surveyor-General. Other - Source of descriptive information - Card inserted in album which reads "Ample evidence this is a 1938 Lands and Surveys team surveying boundaries etc ... The photographer is shown in photos 126, 127 and 112, and is probably Mr Dick, later NZ Surveyoe General ..." Signed "Rhys Richards". Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark blue cloth-covered album, 35.5 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-019

Description: Mount Peel homestead with some of its surrounding garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: 1907

By: Banks, Isabel Violet, 1873-; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-078-009/026

Description: One of Wellington harbour, but chiefly South Island, including Picton Marlborough Sounds, Mt Peel and Peel Forest, & Brazilian Islands Inscriptions: Violet Banks; I V, Banks; I.V.B. Quantity: 18 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolours 185 x 320 mm and smaller

Date: 1869

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-082

Description: View from a garden with shrubs around the edge, looking out across the Rangitata plain Probably a view either from the Dennistoun or Acland family homesteads Peel Forest and Mount Peel Dating: some views by W M Hodgkins of Mount Peel are in a sketchbook dated around 1869; some are in a sketchbook dated 1882. This drawing may be a preliminary version of a watercolour in Dunedin Public Art Gallery, inscribed by the artist 'The South Canterbury Plains from near Peel Forest. 1882' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 230 x 290 mm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

Reference: E-346-2-025

Description: Mount Peel homestead with some of its surrounding garden Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :[Akaroa scenes] / Cranleigh Barton [ca 1950]

Reference: A-227-327

Description: Shows a garden and trees without their leaves with snow topped mountains in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 285 mm

Date: [Between 1940 and 1954]

From: Salmon, J T :Albums, album pages and loose prints

By: Salmon, John Tenison, 1910-1999

Reference: PA1-q-208

Description: Album of photographs taken by John Tenison Salmon between 1940 and 1954. The sequence of images is not chronological. Slip attached to spine reads: Trips - Bold Peak, 1943, Mt. Arthur tbld, Marlb. Sounds, Mt. Algidus, 1946, Honeymoon, 1948. 7th Pacific Sc. Congress. West Coast. The album opens with views taken on a trip to the West Coast in January 1954; followed by a West Coast museum trip, February 1940; a Neslson-Westhaven expedition, November 1952; John and Pam Salmon's honeymoon in the South Island in December 1948; and a trip to Mt. Algidus, February 1946. The next trips in the album were the Mt. Arthur tableland museum expedition, February 1946, and again in February 1948; the Bold Peak district, February 1943; trip around the Sounds on "The Alert", August 1948; air trip over the Sounds in April 1949; and then the South Pacific Science Congress, Auckland-Christchurch, February 1949. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, Super Cobra binder file; 30 x 25 cm

Date: 1888 - 1900

From: [Medley, Mary Catherine] 1835-1922 :Sketch book

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-346-2-026/027

Description: A view from near the Mount Peel homestead, taking in the Church of the Holy Innocents to the right, the woolshed and other buildings in the middle distance and looking towards the Rangitata River and the cliffs on the opposite side of the river. Cabbage trees and flax on slopes in the foreground and plantings around the church, possibly of yew trees. The churchyard is enclosed in a fence and garden The church was designed by Edward Ashworth, earlier resident in Auckland as an artist. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on 2 sketchbook pages, 129 x 356 mm

Date: 1993 - 1998 - 2002 - 1999

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-141

Description: Shows leaves, berries and flowers of a Mountain Wineberry or Shrubby Wineberry. Full notes on verso. Artist's list: A. fruticosa (ii): Female flowers 1.12.98 from above Roaring Meg Power Station, Pisa Ra., coll. Rory Logan. Branchlet and berries 1.1.98 from above Lyn Creek, Mt Peel Station, Canterbury, coll. A Eagle. Berry and seed shown enlarged 8.2.99 from Mt Peel Station, coll. Rosemary Ackland. Juv. leaves from Ben Dhu Bog Reserve nr Twizel, Jan 2002, coll. A Eagle A. fruticosa (iii): Branchlet from Whana Huia, Ruahine Ra., 2.2.93, coll. Tony Druce Appears on page 279 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - February, January, December Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 325 x 259 mm.

Date: 1896 - 1899

By: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922; Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873; Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975

Reference: E-380

Description: Shows views of Maori buildings in Papawai and Te Ore Ore (Masterton area), the homesteads of A. Hutt and A. Hawdon at Underwood (possibly Port Underwood), Picton, Wanganui, Canterbury Plains (including Mt Peel, Rangitata), Feilding (including Lord Ranfurly's arrival there), Wairarapa, Levin (a Maori house), W. Maunsel's house in Masterton, the home of H. Nixon at Sedgebrook, and the Church Mission house at Waimate (Bay of Islands). This last is by Richard Taylor (Mary Medley's father), as is a view of St Sampson Church, Guernsey. At the back are loose sketches with copies of Edward Lear's illustrated limericks. Cranleigh Barton is a grandson of the artist. Inscriptions: (Inside front cover, inscribed by Cranleigh Barton) 15 Mary Medley's sketchbook.; Some works inscribed with title beneath image. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 24 pencil sketches, 43 watercolour and pencil works, in sketchbook 165 x 230 mm. Finding Aids: Shelf-list/inventory available - copy housed with sketchbook..

Date: 1997 - 1998

From: Eagle, Audrey Lily, 1926- :[Collection of original paintings made for "Eagle's trees and shrubs of New Zealand" books. 1955-2005]

Reference: A-437-151

Description: Shows leaves, seeds and flowers of a mountain lacebark tree. Artist's list: Flowers 20.1.98, carpels 22.9.97 from Mt Peel Station, Canterbury, coll. Rosemary Ackland [Acland]. Details of flowers from North Esk R., tributary of Hurunui R., coll David Norton. Appears on page 299 of Eagle's "Complete trees and shrubs of New Zealand" Other Titles - Flowers; River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 329 x 256 mm.