Wahlenbergia gracilis

Date: 1936 - 1937

From: [Holdsworth, Alice Mabel] 1878-1963 :[Plants and scenery from a New Zealand trip] 1936-1937

Reference: E-252-q-024

Description: Two branches of clematis and branches of other flowers in various colours, some growing at Wairakei, some on the Waikato river and one from Wairunga Falls. Includes artist's description of flowers Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in album. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 310 x 230 mm in grey buckram album

Date: 1954

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

Reference: E-720-039

Description: Three drawings of wahlenbergia, the native bluebell, in flower. An island seen across choppy water. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on loose sheet of paper torn from a spiral-bound sketchbook, 185 x 268 mm

Date: 1947

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

Reference: E-723-021/023

Description: Preliminary drawings of flowering plants in the foreground, a mountain peak in the background. May be Arthur's Pass or Mount Cook. Details of flowers along the side, including a helichrisum and a bluebell Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on three sketchbook pages, each 215 x 170 mm.

Date: ca 1930

Reference: PAColl-7553

Description: Set of photographs of New Zealand native plants: hebe salicifolia, snowberries, rannunculus insignis, gentiana bellidifolia, olearia nummularifolia, celmisia spectabilis, celmisia incana, bluebells, and ourisia macrophylla. Also a photograph of wild flowers in bloom at the summit of Hauhungatahi. Photographer unidentified. 1/2-005614 - veronica catarractae was not found at the time of entry. Quantity: 11 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1947

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

Reference: E-723-033

Description: Flowers of the native bluebell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, each 215 x 170 mm.

Date: 1952

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

By: Moore, John Lysaght, 1897-1965

Reference: A-380-069

Description: Shows studies of a blue-flowered native bluebell, wahlenbergia gracilis. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 190 x 265 mm.

Date: 1884

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-067-1

Description: The blue bell in flower Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 245 x 168 mm

Date: 1960 - 1961

From: Brenkley, Hannah Eliza Jane, 1882-1973 :Native wild flowers, berries and weeds. 1960-1961.

Reference: E-164-q-036

Description: Two wildflowers Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 246 x 310 mm

Date: 1886

By: Moon, Henry George, 1857-1905; Garden (Periodical)

Reference: A-442-046

Description: Shows a clump of the New Zealand bluebell, with leaves growing from the ground level, long flower stems and small white five-petalled flowers. The artist of this print is possibly Henry George Moon, who made many of the illustrations for The Garden in the 1880s. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [Date - partially illegible] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on sheet 302 x 236 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, May 2011.

Date: 1890 - 1896

From: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :New Zealand mountain flora. [1890s?]

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: E-001-q-006

Description: Shows group of flowers (named in accompanying text) growing in foreground, with Mount Taranaki in right distance. Accompanied by typescript page of textual commentary. Numbered "5" in pencil on both illustration and text. Other Titles - Forstera Extended Title - In her "New Zealand mountain flora" [189-?]. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - (In pencil): 5 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on sheet in box.. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 277 x 217 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 3 [1890s]

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: B-018-017

Description: A clump of small white flowers against a brown background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in ink & repeated in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 291 x 370 mm

Date: 1880 - 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Volume 2

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: C-023-014

Description: An arrangement of New Zealand flowering plants against a background of a river valley and hills. The plants include metrosideros, clematis, wahlenbergia, gaultheria and ranunculus. Exhibited in 'Wild Things: Botanical and Zoological Art from the Alexander Turnbull Library' exhibition, National Library Gallery, 22 November 1998 - 21 March 1999. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 540 x 370 mm

Date: 1900 - 1907

From: Burton, Clelia, 1878-1952 :Album of New Zealand flowers &c / C. L. Burton, Nelson

Reference: E-050-006

Description: The Wahlenbergia in flower Extended Title - From her Album of New Zealand flowers. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour on tinted paper 225 x 180 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander H. Turnbull