Native forest - New Zealand - Waikato Region

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

Reference: A-020-035-1

Description: Unfinished. Shows bush with a faint indication of Mount Ruapehu Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 283 x 230 mm

Date: 1905 - 1915

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

Reference: A-462-237

Description: Shows rapids of a river flowing over rocks. The river (possibly Tokaanu Stream) is surrounded by bush Very similar to image at A-462-238 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 148 x 90 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Hunt, William Irwin, 1892-1997

Reference: Pan-2166-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a narrow valley surrounded by sloping hills. A single-storeyed farmhouse with a return verandah is on a knoll above a road on the far left. Trees and garden around the house. Large stand of native bush nearby, and a large woolshed with animal pens on a slope above the road in the right foreground. Rough ground and some clearer paddocks on a slope in the left foreground. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Pa Taua; Marginal notes on negative - W.I. Hunt. Title "Pa Taua". Box 54, Te Kuiti. 3 B&W. 1 Sep [i.e. sepia] on Kodak. Print from cabbage trees on left to as far as possible. Develop up well so as to get detail in bush; Marginal notes on negative - 6 6 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 126.0 cm

Date: 1923

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

Reference: Pan-2125-F

Description: Panoramic view over the Waikato River with bush-clad banks on either side, hills in the centre background. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Wiakato [i.e. Waikato] River. N.Z. from Huka Falls. No. 19B; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Waikato River from Huka Falls. 1923; Marginal notes on negative - 3 3 3 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 110.3 cm

Date: 1849 - 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Barker, F B, active 1850s

Reference: E-144-013

Description: Tiny figures of five miners with their tools moving up a path towards bush-clad hills Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 10.8 x 13.7 inches

Date: 5 - 7 March 1959

From: Williams, Edmund Gardner, b 1894 :Transparency slides of a trip to New Zealand and Australia

Reference: PA12-8784

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams') travel in New Zealand in 1959. This sheet of slides includes views of and near the Chateau Tongariro (including the entrance and the bowling green at the Chateau), looking towards Mount Ruapehu (including red lichen on rocks), looking towards Mount Ngauruhoe, the Desert Road, Turangi, and Lake Taupo (including fumaroles and sulphur near Lake Taupo). Slides on this sheet are numbered 300-[325] with gaps for those removed for lectures on New Zealand. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 300-301, 303, 310, 318-319) showing scenes in area around Mounts Ruapehu and Ngauruhoe. These were taken as part of a representative collection on New Zealand for various lectures which he gave when he returned to England. The lecture series are filed in later sequences. Quantity: 20 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1933

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-719-002

Description: Mature native bush showing effects of wind Surrounding drawings are of the south Taranaki district. The Meremere in the title appears more likely to be the lesser known South Taranaki Meremere, than the better known Raglan district Meremere. In addition, Moore's uncle, Brian C Lysaght, lived at Meremere South Taranaki Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on sketchbook page, 182 x 257 mm.

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-007-015

Description: Shows a view looking across a slope down to the lake at the far right. There are dead tree trunks in the left foreground and mountains in the distance. On the back is an unfinished watercolour of a lake, with cliffs and hills on one side, possibly another part of Lake Rotoaira Other Titles - Lake Rotoaira Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title, date and initials, CBD, in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash, 267 x 330 mm; watercolour (on verso)

Date: [1924?]

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

Reference: Pan-1832-F

Description: Panoramic view of steam rising above an area of boiling mud at Whakarewarewa, known as Frog Pond. Surrounded by bush. Taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Frog Pond. Rotorua, N.Z. (Boiling mud). No. 156 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 108.4 cm

Date: 1867 - 1880

Reference: C-030-002

Description: Shows a view of a coastal settlement spread along the water's edge, backed by bush-clad hills, and seen from the water. Thames, originally named Shortland, was established in 1867 as a goldmining town, but had grown to the size shown here by 1870. The buildings depicted are likely to include miners' houses, hotels and stamper batteries Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 770 mm (trimmed)

Date: 1841 - 1850

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: A-143-020

Description: Shows a high waterfall amongst bush-clad hills. A large native tree frames the view in the left foreground Vendor's auction catalogue attributed this work to Cuthbert Clarke. ATL attributed it to Merrett on grounds of style, and the hand-written title, apparently in the hand of Merrett, not of Clarke. Attributed to Merrett on grounds of style and handwriting of title. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Unsigned and undated. Merrett was in New Zealand from 1841. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 150 x 180 mm.