Engravings

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-09

Description: View of the Athenaeum, at the foot of Plimmer's Steps, Lambton Quay looking south-east. Shows the second Wellington Athenaeum, built 1877, with a tower. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 122 x 74 mm

By: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915

Reference: E-278-q-001

Description: Cartoon showing the advantages socialism offers the worker as opposed to the evils of capitalism. Depicts an angel heralding Socialism and a devil symbolising Capitalism, devouring a prostrate labourer who is lying on a pile of rocks, a pick and shovel by his side. No 1 Published for Newcastle Socialist Society Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 102 x 76 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-07

Description: View of ships at Queens Wharf, Wellington Harbour Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-01

Description: View of Lambton Quay looking south-west with premises of Cameron Christie, ironmonger, in foreground on immediate right. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-06

Description: View of Willis Street looking north-east. The premises of N J Isaacs are in the immediate foreground on the right. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-02

Description: View of Lambton Quay with businesses in Regent House on immediate right. Next door is the Queens Hotel. Further along the street are the premises of Kempthorne & Prosser. Opposite the Queens Hotel are the premises of the Federal Plumbing Works. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1904

From: [Posters deposited on long-term loan by Michael Kenna. 1980]

By: Kenna, Michael, active 1980-2000

Reference: Eph-E-KENNA-1904-01

Description: A circus herald advertising the Fitzgerald Brothers' Circus. Recto shows portrait illustrations of the two Fitzgerald Brothers at the top corners, and below is a large scene showing many acts going on in the Big Top. Performers included: The Zenobia Brothers (globe on a tightrope), Gilleno (musical clown), dog show introduced by Manzoni (from the Folies Bergeres), Mdemoiselle Onra (tightrope), Miss Beryl Loraine (contortionist and dancer), Eric and Reano (aerial trapeze comedians), The Flying Meteors, Benato the Clown, The Marottos (horizontal bar) Contains a warning that any swindlers, gamblers, fakirs making false claims and undermining the circus affidavits, will be arrested if found on the grounds. The verso advertises an orangutan on display. Lower side of verso is overstamped with Palmerston North dates and venue. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on green poster.. Physical Description: Relief print, black on green poster 900 x 570 mm

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842; Pellion, Alphonse, 1796-1868

Reference: A-318-022

Description: Shows three huts, grouped around a courtyard, wherein, at right, two women are engaged in rolling out fabric lengths or mats on the ground. They are in the process of making the fabric as explained in the text Domeny de Rienzi's book (volume 2, page 43 in French edition). Plate 115 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. French edition (1835-36), has same plate and has the additional information that Danvin was the copyist. Chavannes engraved the French version, but the engraver for the Italian version is not given (it may also have been Chavannes). Plate 86 in Freycinet's "Voyage autour du monde", Atlas historique (1825), where it is attributed to Pellion. Other Titles - Dwellings on the Hawaiian Islands Other Titles - Iles Hawai - Habitations Other Titles - Iles Sandwich. Maisons de Kraimokou, premier ministre du roi; Fabrication des etoffes Other Titles - Sandwich Islands - Fabric making - House of Kalanimoku Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 115 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1895 - 1897

From: [Posters and other ephemera advertising performances by circuses, mainly in New Zealand. 1890-1903].

By: New Zealand Times Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-C-CIRCUS-1895-01

Description: Programme broadsheet for a performance by Harmston's Circus. Performers include: Hakata and Kota (Risley act), Katie Montgomery (rider), Rudolf Strief (with elephant "Babe"), Mr P Montgomery (with arab stallions, and with trick ponies "Midget" and "Bantam"), Cuzco and Willie (throwing and spinning hats), F Harmston (horse riding), The Aldeans (gymnasts), Miss Ruby Scardsdale (trapeze), Gilbert Eldred (horse riding and baton leaping), G W Stewart (horse riding); Mdlle Annette, Blanche, Brandon, Laing, Scarsdale and Nellie Harmston-Love (Indian club swinging); Hashinoto (slide wire). The broadsheet also contains advertisements about: Nurse Woodward's health syrup, Pearce's Boot Warehouse, Arcade Auction Rooms, Dr Speer (for chronic and nervous diseases), Nelson Moate teas, Geo A Mawson (confectioner), Te Aro House; and a full page advertisement for Wardell Bros & Co (grocers of Willis Street Wellington) on the verso. The Wardell's advertisement on the verso indicates that the month was October. Date estimated at 1895 - the Aldeans are said to have performed with Harmston's Circus during 1895-1897. Charles Woodward who performed with the Circus in 1896 in Calcutta, is said by descendants to have "joined the circus" when it visited New Zealand. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, on two sides of sheet 445 x 275 mm.

Date: 1890 - 1899

By: Roche, Geoffrey Hamilton, 1896-1981

Reference: E-278-q-003

Description: Includes scenes entitled: Lambton Quay (2 different), Featherston Street, Catholic Cathedral, Cuba Street, Willis Street, Wharf, Harcourt's Corner, The Athenaeum, Wellington Club, Occidental Hotel, St Patrick's College. Printed on glossy card, able to be unfolded to stand open on a flat surface Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: 12 engravings each 74 x 122 mm on card, 196 x 828 mm, folded to 196 x 140 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr G Roche, 23 January 1969.

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-12

Description: View of St Patrick's College, Buckle Street. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-03

Description: View of Featherston Street showing two horse and carts Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1890 - 1899

From: Artist unknown :[Wellington scenes. 1890s].

Reference: E-278-q-003-10

Description: View of the Wellington Club at 86 The Terrace Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photoengraving 74 x 122 mm

Date: 1852

By: Cooper, Duncan Elphinstone, 1813-1904; Ham, Thomas, 1821-1870

Reference: A-099-008

Description: Shows an Aboriginal in a canoe on a lake surrounded by low hills Other Titles - Burrumbeet Extended Title - From Ham Brothers' Illustrated Australian magazine, Melbourne, 1852 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 101 x 178 mm

Date: 1784 - 1778

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Sharp, William, 1749-1824

Reference: C-131-058-a

Description: Inside of a house with five figures seated. Next to the woman at the centre is a child standing, and the woman seated on the right is holding a child in a basket. In the foreground is a man standing and talking to the woman with the child in the basket. A young man is descending a ladder in the centre middle distance. Around the walls are shelves, with baskets, mats, fish and other provisions. Extended Title - From: Cook, J and King, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Nicholl and Cadell, 1784). Atlas. Plate 58 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 255 x 400 mm

Date: 1763

From: Hogarth, William 1697-1764 :The original works of William Hogarth. London, sold by John and Josiah Boydell, 1790

Reference: D-020-100

Description: A carcitaure of John Wilkes who was the member for Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. Represented as a foolish grinning man with demonic horns formed by his wig. He is seated on a chair and twirling the cap of Liberty (a fool's cap) upon the end of a stick. On the table beside him are two papers of the New Briton, Nos 17 and 45. His squint is just slightly exaggerated to turn his grin into the leer of a cynic; his wig is just slightly curled back into the horns of a devil. Source of descriptive information - Jenny Uglow. Hogarth, a life and a world. London, 1997; Northwestern University Library internet site; and other published sources.. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title John Wilkes, the libertine supporter if William Pitt the Elder, and editor of the New Briton newspaper, was arrested and imprisoned for his fierce attack on King George II and his Prime Minister, the Scottish, Lord Bute. He was charged with seditious libel attack on the King's speech on the opening of Parliament in the 23 April 1763 issue of the New Briton (No 45). On 19 Jan 1764 he was expelled from the House of Commons and arrested. For many he was a martyr of liberty. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 353 x 230 (platemark), one of two prints on cream wove paper, 485 x 650 mm

Date: 1862 - 1869

From: [The George Henry Wood collection of prints]

By: Burton, William Paton, 1828-1883; Dalziel Brothers (Firm)

Reference: A-390-161/182

Description: Illustrations for magazine stories and idyllic scenic rural illustrations for "Golden thoughts from golden fountains", arranged in fifty-two divisions. Illustrations by eminent artists, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. London, 1868. The engraver of many of the illustrations is Dalziel Brothers. Quantity: 22 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Black and white prints mounted on sheets, sizes approximately 335 x 223 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Webber, John, 1751-1793; Sharp, William, 1749-1824

Reference: C-131-017-c

Description: A scene in Lifuka, Tonga, in 1777, with James Cook and another sailor amongst a circle of Tongan men, watching a large group of women performing a dance, lit by tapers held by the watchers. There are instrumentalists in the centre of the dancers, beating sticks on the ground. Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 17 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 268 x 406 mm

Date: 1770

By: Cleveley, John, 1747-1786

Reference: A-016-005

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 6 x 10.5 ins

Date: 1782

By: Wale, Samuel, -1786; Hogg and Company

Reference: B-041-008

Description: "Engraved for Millar's New complete & universal system of geography". Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, plate mark 283 x 167 mm, on sheet 450 x 230 mm Provenance: Unknown.