Pyramids

Date: 1940

From: Creator unknown: Photographs of North African scenes during World War II

Reference: PA1-o-1565

Description: Photographs of military troopships and naval vessels (including Ramilees, Strathaird), soldiers recreation and entertainment, Mersa Matruh in Easter 1940, soldiers playing tenniquoits, military vehicles in the desert, Egyptian antiquities, races at Heliopolis in 1940, Tood? Sporting Club in Helipolis. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: 230 x 310 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-030

Description: The Egyptian statue of the Spinx, with a pyramid behind it Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 90 x 143 mm

By: Willett, Lucy Robinson, -1962; Vartha, Jennifer, active 2009

Reference: PAColl-9500

Description: Photographs taken and collected by school teacher Lucy Willett of Oamaru while teaching as an exchange teacher in London 1938-1940. Includes photographs taken in Egypt. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 27 b&w original photographic print(s). Provenance: Donated by Jennifer Vartha, Christchurch, 2009 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Willett, Lucy Robinson, d 1962: Papers (MS-Papers-9283).

Date: 2004

From: Winter, Mark 1958- :[Cartoons published in the Southland Times between 23 August 2004 and 15 January 2005]

Reference: A-370-071

Description: A sheik pushing a barrel marked 'Oil prices' up the side of a pyramid. Refers to rising oil prices Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy, A4 size paper.

Date: 1876

From: Richmond, Christopher William, 1821-1895 :Sketch book ; sketches numbered 1 to 74 [i.e. 95] / [by] C W Richmond.

Reference: E-284-047

Description: A view of pyramids stretching away into the distance Other Titles - Giza Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 80 x 138 mm

Date: 15 February 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-:Original cartoons. 1986-2011

Reference: A-453-119

Description: Shows John Key as an Egyptian Pharaoh. He shows his plans for his infrastructure project - a pyramid. He says that if it doesn't work then they will do a sphinx or two. Inscriptions: Recto - centre right - MONDAY CARTOON 1602A?CARTOON 157.2 x 129.5mm Pls correct & send to GNZHASRTPIX MediaGrid [in pencil] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and felt-tip pen on paper 225x330 mm

Date: 2009

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

Reference: DCDL-0013275

Description: Shows John Key as an Egyptian Pharaoh. He shows his plans for his infrastructure project - a pyramid. He says that if it doesn't work then they will do a sphinx or two. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2008

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0007943

Description: Shows Sarah Palin, the running mate of American Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Pictured behind her are pyramids, and dinosaurs and an Egyptian Pyramid builder. She gives a history lesson stating that 6000 years ago when the world began, man harnessed the power of dinosaurs to build the pyramids. Sarah Palin is the politically and religiously conservative governor of Alaska. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Walker, Malcolm, 1950- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0008470

Description: Shows architects being given orders from clients throughout the ages. 'Then' shows a Pharaoh giving an order to an architect to build an enormous and great monument. The architect will be rewarded with their eyes will be put out with flaming tapers, but if they do a bad job they will die. 'Later' shows a bishop ordering an architect to build a cathedral. The architect will be rewarded with untold indulgences, forgiveness and a nun, but if they do a bad job they will go to hell. 'Now' shows a farmer telling an architect to build them a winery. The architect will be rewarded with Pinot noir, but if they stuff it up they will get Sauvignon blanc. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2002

From: Buist, Grant, 1973- : [Jitterati digital cartoons published in The Capital Times newspaper]

Reference: DCDL-0008049

Description: "Jitterati" cartoon strip. Shows Debbie and Jaimee walking in Wellington's Civic Square. They notice another pyramid. Debbie tries to enter it but Jaimee tells her not to as she will get a sharper head. Extended Title - "I love it when they build something and you can't tell what it's for..." "Look! There's another PYRAMID!" "Just like GIZA..." "Hey, don't do THAT..." "Why not?" "Your HEAD'll get SHARPER" Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-026

Description: A view of the Pyramids and the Sphinx. The Sphinx has the face of a New Zealand politician, possibly Sir James Carrolll. He is wearing a complacent expression, has a huia feather in his hair and is smoking a pipe; the nearby Pyramid has the face of Sir Joseph Ward, who is smirking and winking at another man who stumbles at the foot of the pyramid, trying to hold up a pole bearing the words 'Opp[osition] arguments'. Across the bottom of the pyramid is the word 'prosperity' Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 391-356 mm

Date: 1937 - 1938

From: Bensemann, Leo Vernon, 1912-1986 :[Bookplate collection]

By: Angus, Rita, 1908-1970

Reference: BOOKPLATES-Bensemann-13

Description: Bookplate shows a full-length profile portrait of artist Rita Angus at the right, her hand tied to a ball and chain. Behind her in the centre is a pyramid, with city buildings and a mountain in the distance. A large snake coils around the pyramid, its head at upper left facing Rita Angus / Cook. A fish leaps out of the water at lower left, and at top right a dagger is poised over the artist's head partly within a ring encircling a starry constellation. Artist confirmed in Vita Cochran's essay "What the pyramind contains", in "Rita Angus; life and vision", edited by William McAloon and Jill Trevelyan (2008), page 41. Rita Angus is said to have drawn this image in a mood of annoyance with Leo Bensemann. The style is closer to Bensemann's than to her own, possibly as a way of showing that she could draw in his style. In a letter to Douglas Lilburn, quoted in Cochran's article, Rita Angus writes: "The sword is the curse of my being born an artist, and also cuts across the ring, which is my marriage. A mistake for both of us, my husband and myself. The stars are Pisces and the Southern Cross. The chains are conventions holding me back from being what I am. The grinning head is Leo, the snake is man. You will notice that the eyes are intent on the mountains and not on man. I wanted the mountains, this was before I painted all those watercolours of Central Otago. The buildings are cities. And the Pyramid contains all that I didnt know and understand about myself, in other words, what I am, and my power" Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Linocut, 125 x 91 mm, on sheet 161 x 117 mm.