Thetis (Yacht)

Date: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-055

Description: The inside back cover of the album. The name and address of Gustav Dillberg are written in reverse and the page contains rough plans, possibly shipboard layouts. Also includes the names of four first-class yachts, but no drawings of the yachts Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1880-1890

By: Still, John (Rev), 1845-1914; Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938

Reference: PAColl-7467

Description: Photographs of Wellington, Marlborough Sounds, Picton, Christchurch and Auckland areas, taken and collected by the Reverend John Still (1845-1914). Some of the photographs of canoeing in Marlborough Sounds were probably taken by Arthur Thomas Bothamley (1846-1938). Quantity: 43 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen prints

Date: 1880s

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

By: Williams, William, 1858-1949

Reference: 1/1-025938-G

Description: Two yachts, the Xarifa and the Thetis (unknown which is which), racing on Wellington Harbour. Taken by William Williams in the 1880s. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1850s - 1890s

By: Mantell, Walter Godfrey, 1864-1927; Bothamley, Arthur Thomas, 1846-1938; Masquerier, John James, 1778-1855; Martin, John, 1789-1854; James Valentine & Sons (Dundee, Scotland); Radcliffe, Frederick George, 1863-1923; Clayton, William Henry, 1823-1877; Wrigglesworth, James Dacie, 1836-1906; Ball, Wilfrid, 1853-1917; Devis, Anthony Thomas, 1729-1816

Reference: PA1-q-158

Description: Album of photographs, engravings and etchings. Frontispiece is a portrait of Gideon Algernon Mantell, painted by J J Masquerier, engraved by Samuel Stepney. On page 30 is `The country of the iguanadon, restored by John Martin ... from the geological discoveries of Gideon Mantell'; page 29 there is a photo of ink drawing of Brighton by A. Devis (Probably English landscape artist Anthony Devis). Page 42 has a photographic copy of a pen & wash drawing by architect William Clayton of Government House in Wellington, ca 1869. It bears little resemblance to the completed building (copy negative available at 1/2-C-021641). Many of the New Zealand scenes are unidentified, though one group were taken in Queen Charlotte Sound, and Picton. Most are taken by unidentified photographers, though there are tourist scenes of Pipiriki and Jerusalem taken by James Valentine, and some of Te Aroha by Frederick George Radcliffe. A collection of 6 etchings by Wilfrid Williams Ball are all related to the Thames in London, including views of the Tower of London, Gravesend, and Greenwich. An early photograph of Mrs Alfred J Woodhouse (mother-in-law of Gideon Mantell), was taken by an unidentified photographer in 1839. Inscriptions: Album page - W G Mantell Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Tan cloth binding with impressed decorative pattern, entitled `New Zealand ferns'; 30.5 x 26.5 cm