Field family

Date: 1863

By: Parker, Frances Lydia, 1851-1881

Reference: E-392

Description: Contains mainly figure studies including many left profiles of young women, and some English nature scenes. Includes some pages of writing, love poems, fortune-telling card interpretations, description of ideal man. The name William Purves is in large letters inside the back cover, and is the name of the protagonist of a short play in the sketchbook. Inscriptions: Inside front cover: Fanny Lydia Parker, March 29th, '63, Newtown.; Comments beside many of the portraits. Many signed F.L.P. Fanny Lydia Parker was the aunt of Frances Hodgkins, her sister being Rachel Owen Parker. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook containing pencil and ink sketches, book 222 x 183 mm. Transfers: Field family papers.

Date: 1848 - 1896

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field family

Reference: A-169-027

Description: View of the Acheron in some detail taken from description of a crew member to Dunedin artist William Hodgkins, 48 years after the event. Colour notes and technical details about the ship and its rigging and engine are included Inscriptions: Recto - title, dates and monogram below image; colour and technical notes surrounding image Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 225 x 284 mm Provenance: Field family, descendants of the artist. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Field family papers MS group 60; ex MS Papers 113, donated ca 1951 (MS ac. no. 73-128; rearranged ca 1988; transferred to Drawings & Prints loose in Dunedin sketchbook of W.M.Hodgkins, 1895 (E-391).

Date: 1990

From: New Zealand Society of Genealogists : 1990 Sesquicentennial Family Biography Competition collection

Reference: MS-Papers-4280-029

Description: A brief history of the Field and Thurlow families before John Henry Field and his wife Emma Field nee Thurlow sailed for New Zealand on the SS Siam in 1867 with their three children. John Field was prominent in local politics in Auckland and had a printing business in Albert Street. Contents include full charts of their children and their descendants. John Henry Field was born in Dublin in 1836 and died 1896. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-074-a

Description: Shows a landscape with a rocky shoreline in the foregrond, and harbour and hills beyond. Reproduction of original oil on canvas, 58.5 x 71.75 cm "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Frances Hodgkins Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 430 x 500 mm Provenance: Deposited on legal deposit.

By: Field family

Reference: A-214-006

Description: A river in spate with a low waterfall, several snow-clad volcanos in the background Acquired with the Hodgkins material and appears to have been executed by some a of the Field family. (Dr Eric McCormick's attribution) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 231 x 279 mm

Date: 1890 - 1900

By: Bong, R, active 1890s; Field family

Reference: A-013-061

Description: Shows a young couple who have alighted from two horses in a secluded area. The man is holding both horses and is reaching across to kiss the woman. Both are dressed in riding habit. Cut from an English publication on art. On the verso is a printed article about artist G.H.Boughton, 1895 Dating of image based on this article, which refers to artist G.H.Boughton exhibiting at the Royal Academy "30 years ago" in 1865. Artist's name inscribed lower left, but illegible. Could be Romny. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured wood engraving 295 x 225 mm Provenance: Field family, descendants of the artist. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Field family papers, MS group 60, ex MS papers 113, transferred to Drawings & Prints 26/4/89.

By: Field family; Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: A-214-003

Description: View from a high point looking down into Dunedin City, the wharves and the lower harbour with the Peninsula and sea beyond Acquired with the Hodgkins material and seems to have been executed by a member of the Field family. (Dr Eric McCormick's attribution). May also be the work of a member of the Hodgkins family, either Frances or Isabel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 292 x 130 mm

Date: 1903 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: A-003-027

Description: Shows the corner of a three-storeyed house and canal over a bridge. "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F. H. '03 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 370 x 240 mm

Date: 1903 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: A-003-027-a

Description: Shows the corner of a three-storeyed house and canal over a bridge. "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F. H. '03 Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 370 x 240 mm

Date: 1935 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-074

Description: Shows a landscape with a rocky shoreline in the foregrond, and harbour and hills beyond. Reproduction of original oil on canvas, 58.5 x 71.75 cm "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Frances Hodgkins Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 430 x 500 mm Provenance: Deposited on legal deposit.

Date: [1983-1992]

By: Hayton, Alan Colin, 1919-2012

Reference: MS-Papers-7158

Description: Correspondence between Hayton and Eric McCormick, particularly focusing on Charles Armitage Brown about whom McCormick had written a book, `The Friend of Keats' (1989, and the Hodgkins family; also includes clippings and notes on a variety of topics Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph, mss, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1855-1950

By: Field family

Reference: MS-Group-0060

Description: Correspondence and papers of two prominent New Zealand families. The collection centres around W H Field, Waikanae landowner and MP for Otaki, and his wife Isabel Hodgkins, sister of artist, Frances Hodgkins. It amalgamates a number of separately catalogued ms collections of the same provenance, including MS-Papers-0113. * Diary for 1883 missing Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also W H Field papers, 73-128 Quantity: 244 folder(s). 92 volume(s). 3 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter Finding Aids: Paper inventory which was previously available in reading room was removed on 3 Dec 2014 as it contained no extra information. A copy is available in the staff backfile. Family trees for Field, Hodgkins and Parker families available in staff back file entitled Field Family listings.. Provenance: Collected by Field family members, 1855-1950 Transfers: To Drawings & Prints Collection - Accompanying art works - To Photographic Archive - Accompanying photographs. Processing information: Two further boxes still require adding to this group and are at the end of the sequence at MS-Papers-0113-31 and MS-Papers-0113-32; they are papers relating to W H Field and will be added to Series 1 and 16B

Date: 1875

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field family

Reference: E-401

Description: Contains 109 sketches of Fiordland and the West Coast, from aboard S S Maori. Locations included are: Stewarts Island, Dog Island, Bluff, Horseshoe Bay, Preservation Inlet, Gulches Head, Northport, Dusky Sound, Cascade Cove, Acheron Passage, Breaksea Sound, Doubtful Sound, Thompson Sound, Nancy Sound, George Sound, Milford, Martin's Bay, Big Bay, Mt Aspiring, Jackson's Bay, Buller River, Westport, Cape Foulwind, Bucklands Peaks, Hokitika, Otira Gorge near Kelly's Creek, Mt Cook.. Most of the sketches are very simple and rough. Dating: dated 1875 in diary notes at back of volume, recording a trip taken from Port Chalmers between Saturday 13 March 1875 and the northern West Coast, 21 March 1875 Inscriptions: Entitled by artist on each page. Nearly all undated. Diary notes at back of volume dated March 1875, and include signature W Hodgkins, p. 108 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 109 pencil sketches in sketchbook, 105 x 180 mm. Finding Aids: Inventory/shelflist available.. Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives' Field family papers..

Date: 1894-1897

From: Field family :Field and Hodgkins family photographs

Reference: PA1-q-078

Description: Family photographs of the William Hughes Field family, their home in Everton Terrace, Wellington, with views of Wellington and the harbour taken from various streets nearby. One group of images taken from Kelburn Park in February 1897 show the ship (with an escorting flotilla) in which Lord Glasgow was leaving New Zealand after his term as Governor of New Zealand. A few images show scenes in Christchurch. The yacht `Sunbeam' (privately owned by Lord Brassey) is shown in Wellington Harbour in a number of views. Several photographs shows areas on the outskirts of Wellington. Views fom Pukerua of the hills to the north and Kapiti Island; Otaihanga (with one of a Maori family at their home); Upper Hutt, showing Mr and Mrs Sarjeant's backyard, Mr and Mrs Barber's orchard, and two views of a farm owned by Mr [Martin?]; the coast at Island Bay, and fishermen and their huts at Island Bay. Signature of William Hughes Field is found inside the front cover `W. Hughes Field. 1895' Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Grey album with black corners and spine, entitled `Photographs. W.H. Field. Index'; 29.0 x 24.5 cm

Date: 1877

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field family

Reference: C-110-009

Description: Shows a narrow stretch of a sound between steep hillsides, probably the Narrows in Milford Sound Inscriptions: Verso - lower centre 'Milford Sound' in pencil, probably in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 147 x 207 mm

Date: 1863 - 1888

From: Hodgkins family :[Miscellaneous sketches and greetings cards. 1870-1920s].

By: Hodgkins family; Field family

Reference: E-399-f-036

Description: Shows view of town looking along main street, with general store at right, and Presbyterian church (its second building) at left distance. Extreme left foreground shows cropped street frontage of house. Dates from between 1863 and 1889, the duration of the second Presbyterian church building. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in folder. Physical Description: Pencil, 86 x 134 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available..

Date: 1908 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-076

Description: Shows a view of buildings and river in Dordrecht, with the backs of children in the foreground. Reproduction of original watercolour and charcoal, 67.5 x 45.5 cm "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F Hodgkins Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, on sheet 602 x 438 mm.

By: Field family

Reference: A-214-008

Description: An unfinished sketch showing a town scene by water with mediaeval houses and part of a church, possibly in Holland. Two women standing near a house on the right appear to be wearing Dutch bonnets Possibly by a member of either the Field or Hodgkins family Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 248 x 411 mm

Date: 1916 - 1986

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-073

Description: Portrait of a middle-aged man with blond moustache, and checked waistcoat, seated in front of a window with a women (at right) and a young girl. Reproduction of original oil and tempera. "Reproduced with the kind permission of the Field family trustees". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - F. Hodgkins Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 500 x 430 mm

Date: 1868

From: Hodgkins family :[Miscellaneous sketches and greetings cards. 1870-1920s].

By: Field family; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-399-f-041

Description: Shows left head-and-shoulders profile in top hat, glasses and beard. Probably a portrait of William Mowbray, schoolmaster at St Pauls, Thorndon. W. M. Hodgkins was in Wellington in 1868 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title in ink, in the hand of W. M. Hodgkins] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in folder. Physical Description: Red ink on blue paper, 140 x 79 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available..