Sailboats - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 1885

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-012

Description: Shows a view of Judges Bay in Parnell, Auckland. A small sail boat can be seen in the water in the foreground. The sky and water have a pink hue, suggesting early morning or evening Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M Wykes / 1885 [in brushpoint]; Album page - beneath image - Judges Bay Auckland [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 122 x 192 mm (image)

Date: 1885 - 1886

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: E-964-q-024

Description: Shows sailing boats on a stretch of Auckland Harbour, with Devonport in the middle distance and the distinct shape of Rangitoto rising in the distance. There is a fenced roadway in the bottom left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 180 x 150 mm (image)

Date: 1907

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-058

Description: On the recto, above, a pencil outline drawing of St George's Bay, with a small sailoat in the foreground at the water's edge. Parnell is on the right, and in the background is North Head and Rangitoto Island. Below, a night-time view of Wellington Harbour, with two three-masted yachts. On the verso, a pencil outline drawing of Herne Bay, with Watchman Island visible. A colour code has been written in for later inclusion. Below, two men on a river in kayak-like rowboats Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, pencil and ink on pages of sketchbook, 310 x 250 mm

Date: 1907 - 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-105

Description: Watercolour sketches of the Hauraki Gulf with some of its islands, as well as watercolour studies of cabbage trees. Two pencil sketches of sailboats, one concentrating on the shapes of the sails, the other on a light sketch of Auckland Harbour, with Rangitoto in the distance Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Two watercolour sketches and two pencil sketches, both sides of folded sheet 285 x 220 mm (unfolded)

Date: 1907

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-106

Description: A view of Rangitoto Island from the shore. Rangitoto dominates the picture in the middle ground, and a saliboat on the harbour adds perspective. The water is relatively turbulent, with small waves crashing on the rocks in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 125 x 177 mm

Date: 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-103

Description: A view from Stanley Bay, the small Devonport suburb, at sunset. The sky is yellow with darkening clouds, there are sailboats on the harbour, and a lone house can be seen on the cliff at the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose page of sketchbook, 127 x 173 mm

Date: 1909 - 1910

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-002-1/2

Description: On the recto, a view of Mount Egmont with farm buildings or similar dwellings in the foreground. On the verso, Orakei Bay in Auckland, showing a dirt road leading to the water, and sailboats in the distance Other Titles - Orakei Bay Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on both sides of sketchbook page, 127 x 172 mm

Date: 1844

By: Adams, John, active 1844

Reference: B-176-003

Description: Shows a view of the waterfront at Commercial Bay with two sailboats in the left foreground and a waka pulled up by the shore, beside a tent-like shelter in which two figures are sitting. At the right on the shore are some lengths of timber, and near them a bullock cart loaded with wood or straw. Many of the buildings lining the shore and extending up the rise in the left background, are numbered for identification purposes. The buildings, identified from a numbered key on other similar works, include, from left: St Paul's Church (minus spire), Captain Tucker's house, W S Graham's house and store, New Zealand Banking Company (at top of rise), Victoria Hotel (on waterfront), Williamson and Crummer's, Old Government Store, Exchange Hotel, Scott's Grocery Store, Langford & Gardiner, Royal Hotel (on rise), Theatre, Brown & Campbell, Gibson & Mitchell, McKenzie (druggist), Nathan & Joseph, Commercial Hotel, Acacia Cottage, Cormack (watchmaker), Broadbent's Store, Conroy (solicitor), Mechanic's Institute, Post Office and Customs House, New Building in Queen Street, Rich's Store. The streets shown are Shortland Street, and streets off it, including Queen Street, High Street, and O'Connell Street. The numbered key to the buildings is based on that at the bottom of the engraving of Adams' sketch published in R A A Sherrin and J H Wallace's "Early history of New Zealand" (Brett, 1890). However this work covers only the central portion of Adams' sketch. See also the similar engraving at B-080-007. The watercolour spreads beyond the edges of the paper on to the backing card on which it is mounted. There is a very similar work held in the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales. It is of virtually the same dimensions. Because of the provenance of the Turnbull Library's work, with a likely previous owner being John Leech, it is possible that the work was a preliminary drawing for a later print; the other possibility is that it is a copy of such a preliminary drawing. The medium is watercolour and gouache, with the numbers written in ink. There is no sign of a print beneath the paint. There is a sheen on parts of the surface, made in part by gum arabic buffed with a stylus. The bubbled or pitted effect in the sky is not oil, nor can it be felt by touch as uneven, but there may have been some ingredient in the paint used for the sky to cause this effect. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Gouache on paper 184 x 378 mm, stuck to heavy card, 203 x 400 mm Provenance: Previously owned by his grandmother Helen (Nellie) Smith, the daughter of John Leech who owned a picture-framing shop in Queen Street, from 1855.

Date: 1886

By: Palmer, Charles, 1841?-1928

Reference: A-438-023

Description: Shows a view of Shelly Beach from a wharf with a capstan in the foreground. A yacht with furled sails is stationed in the centre of the bay, and there are two logs floating in the right foreground. In the left middle distance, and collection of logs enclosed by a boom is floating near a headland on which a large house is situated. The artist's logo or symbol (a vase, a money bag or an inverted scallop shell with a blue shadow to its right) is at lower right. In 2010 the Library bought four works out of an offered group of 14 by this artist who uses a distinctive logo. Apart from the purchased four, the rest showed scenes of Kawau, native forest, a swamp at Waitoa (Waikato), an iron sand beach on the West Coast (North Island). Attribution: the Auckland artist Charles Palmer used a scallop shell as his logo, but in a different form from this one, shown upright and with a staff behind it. It is possible that this group of watercolours is the work of Charles Palmer, but not certain Other Titles - 1 August 1886 Cowrie Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 222 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, July 2010.

Date: 1850 - 1860

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

Reference: E-943-q-026

Description: A view of what could be Auckland or Wellington Harbour. A cliff face dominates the right half of the view, and a two-masted sailboat is beached on the shore. Another sailboat can be seen in the harbour, with a range of hills in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 145 x 173 mm, pasted to page of album 265 x 220 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs E. J. Templer, UK (formerly of Tasmania), September 2012