Caterpillars

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Sinclair, Andrew, 1794-1861

Reference: E-143-008

Description: Two Europeans with seven Maori guides and bearers climbing a hill alongside the Waikato River. Hills and high banks opposite. A drawing of a caterpillar with a long ovipositor 'found in a piece of firewood' signed A S and dated Octr 14 1848. A young Maori woman, named as Mo Ke Ke. She is seated, wearing a tiki at her neck and a skirt on her lower half. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of sepia ink and wash drawing, pen and ink and pencil sketch

Date: 1928

By: New Zealand Breweries Ltd

Reference: Eph-E-ALCOHOL-Continuance-1928-11

Description: Two sections of a multi-section poster, possibly from 1928. It shows a large gloomy caterpillar making its way across impoverished farmland. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, on two sheets, each 1015 x 760 mm.

Date: [ca 1975-1989]

From: Minhinnick, Gordon, 1902-1992 :[111 original pencil and ink cartoons. 1930s-1980s]

Reference: C-171-073

Description: Unfinished sketch for a cartoon, showing a man chasing a caterpillars with a number of implements (for instance, a butterfly net, hammer and axe); another man looks on. The words 'price freeze' are written on the ground, possibly referring to the 1982 price and wage freeze imposed by Robert Muldoon's government. Undated. Title created by librarian. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 395 x 580 mm

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-076

Description: A small eucalypt sapling growing in a pot, with a caterpillar with an elaborate crysalis Probably drawn to illustrate The School Magazine, New South Wales Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on card, 146 x 234 mm

Date: 1785 - 1795

From: Various Artists: [Miscellaneous collection of lithographs and engravings showing the metamorphosis of moths, ca 1800]

By: Schellenberg, Johann Rudolph, 1740-1806; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Herbst, Paul Franz W, 1751-1825

Reference: E-101-q-005

Description: A green, grey and white moth, shown with its egg, pupa and caterpillar size, both actual size and enlarged. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on cream laid paper, 154 x 139 mm Provenance: Collection of William Swainson

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-056

Description: A 'rush caterpillar', stick insects, shags, a sea horse and a clipping from the Illustrated London news of the kiwi in the London Zoo, with accompanying text Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 4 drawing(s). 3 newsclippings. 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and ink & wash, clippings, glued to album page, sizes vary

Date: [ca 1950s-2001]

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: EP-Zoology-Insects and caterpillars

Description: Photographs of insects and caterpillars compiled by the library of the Evening Post newspaper, ca 1950s-2001.

Date: 1880

From: Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian insects; original drawings [ca 1880]

Reference: E-054-014

Description: A stick insect and other insects Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 84 x 114 mm on sheet 183 x 203 mm

Date: 1965

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-290

Description: Shows four vignettes to illustrate ambiguous headlines from the newspaper: "New blood should be injected into the New Zealand bowling team" - a Red cross hand reaches out with a plasma bottle for a lawn bowler, while at the right, two cricketers with vampire teeth are "vampire bats" [Collage headline piece missing]-users rebut an invasion from rugby and cricket players by splashing them "Must reach peak in February! Aspirants for Empire Games" - shows three sportsmen training for the games by climbing peaks "18-footers to race at Brisbane" - "This shouldn't be on the Sports page at alll it should be in Nature notes". Shows a man with a magnifying glass on hands and knees watching a caterpillar race Other Titles - Aspirants for Empire Games; 18-footers to race at Brisbane Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, collage and letratone 432 x 292 mm, on sheet 500 x 363 mm.

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-056-1

Description: A caterpillar with a long parasitic growth emerging from its head, similar in appearance to a small bulrush Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 85 x 237 mm

Date: 12 Oct 1950

By: Barlow, Peter William George, 1874-1955

Reference: MS-Papers-2819

Description: Corrected typescript of a talk delivered on 2YZ by Barlow, 12 Oct 1950, 7.15pm Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (4 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with annotations Processing information: Previous identifier, Misc MS N10

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-081

Description: Shows various insects including caterpillars, beetles and wasps etc Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on page 168 x 203 mm

Date: 1798

From: Various Artists: [Miscellaneous collection of lithographs and engravings showing the metamorphosis of moths, ca 1800]

By: Piaggio, Domenico, -1821; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: E-101-q-012

Description: Two larger and one smaller butterfly, shown with two caterpillars and eggs laid on the underside of a leaf Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 143 x 107 mm (plate-mark) on sheet 193 x 136 mm

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-024

Description: Three butterflies, one yellow with brown edged wings, one brown with yellow patches, both in flight and one yellow with brown patches on left wing feeding on a branch in flower. According to the artist's notes `Feeds on the broadgrass, zozani aquatica folding itself up in the leaf, frequents the rice fields, ditches and the sides of ponds in the lower parts of Georgia but is not common'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 248 mm

Date: 1785

From: Various Artists: [Miscellaneous collection of lithographs and engravings showing the metamorphosis of moths, ca 1800]

By: Füssli, Johann Caspar, 1743-1786; Schellenberg, Johann Rudolph, 1740-1806; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-101-q-004

Description: Hand-coloured plate by Johann Rudolph Schellenberg, illustrating Autumn Silkworm Moth (Lemonia taraxaci) caterpillar, pupa, and moths, in five figures. Originally published as Tafel 34 [Plate 34], with figures 1-5, in 'Archiv der Insectengeschichte' by Johann Caspar Füssli, to illustrate the entry with the title 'Beytrag zu der Naturgeschichte der Phal[aenidae] Bombyx Taraxaci', in Sechster [sic] Heft [part 6], pages 19-21. Published in Zurich, 1785. Artist imprint "Schellenberg fec" in lower right corner. 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 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, on cream laid paper, 169 x 102 mm. Provenance: Collection of William Swainson

Date: 1816 - 1818

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-046

Description: Two white bodied ermine moths in flight shown with pupa and caterpillar. According to artist's notes 'Feeds on the Lenecio lobutus cotton etc. Hatched from the egg 1st April, spun up 11th May bred 29th. Is far from common'. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 246 mm

Date: 1820

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-059

Description: Two light brown moths in flight, shown with pupa and caterpillar. According to artist's notes 'Taken on the Zornia Tetraphylla, but is most frequent on Oaks - went into the ground and made a case of dirt 28th April, bred 26th Feby. The moth frequents plum blossoms of a night, not very common'. Plant identified as zornia bracteata (Walt). See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 246 mm

Date: 1820

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-084

Description: Two brown moths in flight, shown with pupa and caterpillar. According to artist's notes `Taken on the plant figured (Hydrolia Carolinana). Feeds also on the Sea Shore Myrtle. Went into the ground 21st June, bred 1st July'. See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 347 x 247 mm

Date: 1820

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-083

Description: Two moths in flight, shown with pupa and caterpillar. According to artist's notes `Feeds on the flower figured, but is not frequent on myrtle. Tyed up like a Butterfly 15th May, bred 27th, is not common'. Plant identified as psoralea psoralioides (Walt) Cary See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 347 x 247 mm

Date: 1820

From: Abbot, John 1751-1840 :Original drawings of insects by J Abott. [1816?]

Reference: E-272-f-053

Description: Two Maize moths in flight, shown with pupa and caterpillar. According to artist's notes 'Feeds on the inside of the ears of the Indian Corn or Zea Mays, while it is in its tender or milky state. When full fed they come out and go into the ground, (23rd Augt. bred the 8th Sept). Is common in the cornfields settled on the corn in the day, flies late in the evening, and first of the night'. See: Parkinson, P.G. in Turnbull Library record, vol 11 no 1 May 1978. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on cream wove paper 342 x 246 mm