Dwellings - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1956

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; New Zealand. High Commission (Great Britain)

Reference: E-278-q-119

Description: Reproduction of a watercolour by Packe showing two thatched sod huts, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad Southern Alps beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 128 x 178 mm on folded card

Date: 1857

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Brooks, Vincent, active 1850s-1880s; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: A-109-043-a

Description: View looking down from Mount Pleasant towards the township of Lyttelton, with streets, houses, churches, commercial buildings and wharves visible. Several ships moored in the stream, Quail Island can be seen to the right and the hills opposite (Diamond Harbour, Purau, Teddington). In the foreground are cabbage trees to the left and rocky outcrops to the right After Edmund Norman's lithograph: Lyttelton, Port Victoria, 1855, reference number B-051-006, which in its turn is based on an ink drawing in the Library's collection, Lyttelton Port Victoria, reference number B-009-008. A second very similar drawing with the same title is held at B-009-009 Extended Title - From: Hursthouse, Charles. New Zealand or Zealandia. Opposite p.226 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted, 89 x 153 mm

Date: 1863

By: Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: E-081-q

Description: Two complete 360 degree panoramas, back-to-back. The first one is 12 pages with two inserts, with a closer view of the station, homestead, outhouses, etc. The second, 14 pages plus 1 insert is a wider view of the countryside from a higher, more distant position. Notes include vegetation and landmarks, including Tekoa, Mt Veto, Jollie's Pass, Maori Kaik, Domett's run, top of Mt Pam [i.e. Mt Palmerston], Duppa's nephew Bryan, and his dog Norma. The drawing of Bryan Duppa is a back view of him seated by a flax-bush, the dog Norma seated at his side. His initials are below the drawing Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 2 pencil drawings on both sides of 14 sheets 228 x ca 3500 mm and 228 x ca 4000 mm on sheets 228 x 285 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: A-048-033

Description: View of Lyttelton from across the harbour towards its south end, near Governor's Bay Attribution on grounds of style and internal evidence of the collection (A-048/027-051, B-064/021, C-064-003). Title and date from pencil inscription on verso Other Titles - From gully beyond Dampier's bay.... Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 177 x 252 mm

Date: 1877 - 1878

By: Brunton, Fanny Wright, 1824-

Reference: C-014-006

Description: Shows view looking south across the river mouth to fields and the town, the harbour at left, Caroline Bay and Parr's windmill Attribution based on comparison with Brunton sketchbook held by Hocken Library. On adjoining leaves of partial sketchbook (on versos of A172/28 and 30) Title supplied Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 163 x 528 mm

Date: 1893

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-6-018

Description: A slab hut on the right amongst bush, half overgrown, with a new larger house next-door Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 151 x 251 mm.

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-020/021

Description: View from behind German Bay, Akaroa Harbour, with mature native trees to the left, a seated cow, cleared land and housing with fences in the centre and the harbour to the right. The name German Bay was changed to Takamatua Bay during World War I Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, 118 x 398 mm

Date: 1944

By: MacDiarmid, Douglas Kerr, 1922-2020

Reference: B-061-016

Description: A view of an empty section with a group of large trees to the right, and broken down paling fences with houses across a street Title from verso Inscriptions: Signed: Douglas MacDiarmid Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil 325 x 470 mm Provenance: Donation: D K MacDiarmid, Paris, 17 Aug 1977

Date: 1855 - 1863

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

Reference: E-080-q-3-011

Description: A series of quick sketches. A two-storied house with another at right-angles (or the same house seen from a different angle) is the most finished. It may show the artist's house at Amuri. There are fifteen drawings of men's faces, including one of a moustached man with upper body including, possibly in a military uniform. There are several cows drawn from several angles and one horse's head. There is also a small drawing of two stick-figure men lining up to fight one another with seated figures behind them. The drawing is undated but the details are likely to have been observed at Duppa's Amuri run in the 1860s. The inside back cover of the sketchbook includes the name and English address of Duppa's nephew, Bryan, who visited Amuri in 1863 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1868

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, between 1860 and 1868]

Reference: E-033-4-037

Description: View from the promontory north of the town, looking along the waterfront at the houses of the town, with a tall hill behind Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on dark green wove paper, 118 x 199 mm

Date: 1874

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; English and New Zealand scenes, with Tristan da Cunha, 1870s]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-1-018

Description: The left side of a two-page panorama (with E-044-q-1-019) looking out to the entrance of Lyttelton Harbour, with two houses and the road towards Lyttelton winding among hills. Lyttelton can be seen in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) and pencil. Physical Description: Watercolour in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1863

From: [Barraud, Charles Decimus], 1822-1897 :McRae's house, Waipapa [1867?] Dickinson's house of accomodation, Kai Kouras Nov 3rd 1867.

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-017-2

Description: Shows the buildings and sheds of the accommodation house at the left, with trees and the Kaikoura Range in the distance. Other Titles - Kaikouras Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 240 x 330 mm.

Date: 1897 - 1899

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

Reference: E-380-055

Description: A coastal scene with a beach viewed through flax bushes and cabbage trees. A house on the right, hills in the distance. The album seems to have been labelled some time after some watercolours were painted. This view does not appear to show Masterton. It is located in the album amidst view of Peel Forest, and may show the Timaru area Other Titles - [Coastal scene, South Canterbury?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Masterton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil, 165 x 230 mm (page size)

Date: ca 1860s-1890s

From: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967 : The Webster Collection

By: Spencer, Harriet Dyke, 1866-1948; London Stereoscopic Photographic Company

Reference: PAColl-4721

Description: Photographs on album pages: photograph of Mount Peel Station, its interior and grounds including Mr Acland in his study, his daughters and their friends identified by inititals, including one of L D Acland and B B Acland, the latter knitting a sock, and the Church of the Holy Innocence viewed across a field of hay stacks with the forest planted by Acland behind it; more of the same women boating and picnicking, including a view of a gorge taken by Harriet Acland, a church interior and Bishop Harper playing cricket with a young boy; Ilam homestead covered in clematis with balconies and verandahs and extensive grounds next to the Avon River, and the Watts Russell family group at Pareora August 1894 with their dog and saddled horses in the background; the West Coast Times printing office with the men outside it, C G Tripp and family and a Centerbury view; and two views of Tripp's homestead at Orari. Photographs mounted on card: a studio portrait of Dr Shortland; John Charles Watts Russell taken by the London Stereoscopic Company; Rev R H Codrington's garden in Norfolk Island while a missionary in the South Pacific with eight local men, either Solomon Islanders and New Hebrideans; five interior views of a well-furnished house (possibly Wildwood, Christchurch) with heavy wooden furniture and fireplaces, gas lamps, drapery, paintings (including a copy of The Order of Release by Millais) etc.; the officers of HMS Invincible on the deck of their ship next to the lifeboats; a view looking down a street of two boats in "the bay of Taranaki" (probably near New Plymouth) one named SS Taupo ca 1860s; and a view over buildings near the shore in New Plymouth ca 1860s. Loose prints of: a brick-built house with a verandah, and a duplicate of the officers of the Invincible. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card. 28 b&w original photographic print(s) on loose pages from an album. 2 b&w original photographic print(s) loose.

Date: 1845

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-008

Description: The thatched roof and side wall of a hut, a tree fern rising above it and a toitoi to the right. The hut is set amongst hills, with fishing nets drying in front of it and the smoke from a fire in the distance. The hut appears to be in the hills behind Akaroa, not at the waterfront. Watermarked: Hudelist with a coat of arms Other Titles - The cottage of the former soldier colonist at Akaroa, New Zealand [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 63 x 59 mm (image); 80 x 74 mm (plate mark); on sheet 324 x 495 mm

Date: 1980 - 1989

From: Hill, Perry Martin, 1926-2005 :[Architectural plans. 1960-1990s]

Reference: Plans-2007-030-0318/0327

Description: Includes floor plans and plans of details of architraves, skirting, jambs, trim, cornices, etc. The buildings included are: 0318-0319: Blackheath Place 0320: The Cuddy, Waimate 0321-0327: Ranginui Quantity: 10 plan(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawings, sizes varying

Date: 1957

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Linton, W, active 1957

Reference: PAColl-0811-01-14

Description: The The Barton house, 49 Cambridge Terrace, Christchurch (architect: W Linton) photographed in 1957, probably by the architect. Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on 1.

Date: 1888 - 1900

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

Reference: E-346-2-007

Description: A house with garden, alongside either the Ashburton River or a road. The blue colouring suggests the river. The Southern Alps in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour on sketchbook page, 132 x 187 mm.

Date: Between 1950-1959

From: Architectural Centre (Wellington, N.Z.): Photographs

By: Barriball, Martin Sydney, 1929-; Warren, Frederick Miles (Sir), 1929-2022

Reference: PAColl-0811-01-35

Description: Howden house at Port Levy (architect: Frederick Miles Warren) constructed and during the 1950s. Photographs taken in the 1950s by Martin Barriball Ltd. Pascoe Collection Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints joined together with adhesive tape

Date: 1950-1959

From: Unwin, Diana Mary, 1923-2014 :Photographs

Reference: PAColl-2470

Description: Photographs of Haast Road Bailey Bridge in the 1950s and of Meres family house in Glandarey Road, Christchurch Quantity: 3 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints