Farmhouses - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1959

By: Mitchell, Gilbert Gregory McCarthy, 1889-1965

Reference: qMS-1372

Description: Includes plans, appendices and bibliography Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (33 cm; light blue wraps, blue pamphlet case)

Date: 1924

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Roe, Thomas, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2048-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a large paddock to a single-storeyed wooden farmhouse centre left. In the field there are three children, a man holding a horse by the bridle, another man holding three horses by the reins and two more horses in the centre of the image. A man and a woman are standing behind a fence in front of the house which is partly hidden by shrubs. There is a large stand of trees on the left of the driveway to the left of the house. Various trees along a stretch of the Whau River in the middle distance to the right of the house. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - Mr T. Roe; Photographer's title on negative - "Bell Trotting Stud Farm" Avondale. Auckland. 1924. No. 29 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 136.0 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

By: Robertson, G, active 1920s

Reference: Pan-2047-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up across a sloping paddock to a large two-storeyed farmhouse partly hidden behind a hedge and amongst trees in the centre left middle distance. A man is standing in front of a high trimmed hedge which surrounds the house. Two cows in the paddock. Two Norfolk pines to the left of the house, macrocarpas on the right. Bushy area with farmland beyond on the right, marshy area centre right with the Whau River beyond on the far right. Photograph taken by R P Moore. Inscriptions: Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape, detached from image] G. Robertson. Avondale, Auckland; Photographer's title on negative - Riverside Avondale No. 25 Relationship complexity - Print at PA6-358 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 129.7 cm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Various artists :[Album of watercolours, cards and published pictures, including scenes in New Zealand and European countries, belonging to Cherie Templer (nee Connell)]. 1830-1890

By: Templer, Cherie, 1856?-1915

Reference: E-943-q-028

Description: Shows a farmhouse with slab chimney. Appears to be the first Titirangi farmhouse, that of John Bishop and family, surrounded by kauri forest. Little Muddy Creek is below and Manukau Harbour can be seen in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 160 x 180 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm

Date: 1880

By: Sharpe, Alfred, 1836-1908; Boylan, John Francis, 1850-1922

Reference: D-033-007

Description: The centre foreground shows the site of an ancient pa of the Waiohua people, with a view of the southern approach to the Manukau Harbour and Auckland isthmus. A track leads on to the wooded promontory from the left foreground. Beyond the rock and to the right of it is a settler's farmhouse showing fenced fields, tree stumps, and rows of garden plantings. Two figures on horseback ride on the road at the base of the promontory, near the farm, and a woman and child stand in the centre of a nearby field. In the left distance, two rivers flow away into the Manukau Harbour and the Waitakere Ranges appear on the far horizon. The light effects and appearance of the sky indicate that the time is shortly before sunset "Art unions" were raffles or lotteries for works of art, and helped artists to get their works known. The Gaming and Lotteries Act of 1880 regulated this activity. Roger Blackley, in "The art of Alfred Sharpe" (Auckland, 1992) notes that the period around 1880 represents the peak of Alfred Sharpe's career; he held two art unions, and published the first of his technical writings. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 610 x 942 mm Provenance: From the collection of artist and writer Tui McLauchlan. In 1880, this work, valued at 15 guineas, was the first prize in Alfred Sharpe's Christmas art union. The ten prizes were exhibited over December at Edward Wayte's stationery shop in Queen Street. The first prize winner (and therefore first owner of this work) was John Boylan, C.E., an Auckland civil engineer.