Artist. Born Smyrna, the son of a naval surgeon. He arrived in Auckland 17 April 1849 aboard the Ennadale. In August 1849 he accompanied Sir George Grey to the Bay of Islands for a Maori feast at Kerikeri. In December 1849 he accompanied Grey aboard the Undine to Thames then overland to Taranaki. He was also employed as a customs clerk in Auckland during early 1851. Later in 1851 he sailed for Melbourne and the Victoria goldfields. He died in Castlemain, Victoria, Australia, survived by two young sons. A draft list of all Clarke's signed or attributed works held in Australian and New Zealand institutions, compiled by Sheila Box, received with letter dated 2 June 1997 - filed in Artists' file in Drawings, Paintings and Prints section. He frequently signed his work Cuthbert Clarke Ismir, Ismir being the earlier name for his birthplace, Smyrna
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 : Sketches of New Zealand and diary
Date: 1849-1850
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: Micro-MS-0639
Description: Cuthbert Clarke's diary, 5 Dec 1849-19 Feb 1850, of a journey in the party of Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, from Auckland to Taranaki, including sketches of scenery and natives and a sketch of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, 6 Dec 1849 Item 3 of Sir George Grey. Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand See Micro-Art-005 for items 1 & 2 of Sir George Grey. Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand, 1845-1853 Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).
Records
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2671
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
[Clarke, Cuthbert Charles] 1818-1863 :[Rotomahana ca. 1850]
Date: 1850
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-038
Description: Group of Maori seated on shore of lake, White Terraces to the right. The group is listening to a young woman, dancing, singing or speaking The Turnbull holds only a photograph of the original Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour. Original 9.8 x 14.1 ins
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles 1819-1863 :St John's College Auckland 1849. Printed at St John...
Date: 1849
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-009
Description: View of a large number of buildings. Several men in academic gowns and mortar boards are moving around the lawn and gardens in front Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph 203 x 368 mm
Ringrose, Kerry Eben :French corvette, L'Alcmene. 1977
Date: 1977
By: Hilliam, Noel, active 1997
Reference: B-051-042
Description: Shows the Alcmene being wrecked on the Manukau Bar Copied from original by Cuthbert Clarke, 1851, to commemorate relocation of wreck by N E Hilliam, 1977 cf, E144/3, photograph of Clarke's crayon drawing in BM Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 260 x 355 mm
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles 1819-1863 :Rotorua Lake from the edge of the Great Forest N.Z....
Date: 1849
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-029-2
Description: A view from the lower slopes above Rotorua Lake, looking across to Mokoia Island and distant hills. Two trees frame the view in the foreground Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pen and ink drawing, 213 x 323 mm
[Oliver, Richard Aldworth] 1811-1889 :Upper Hutt River in the early 1850s.
Date: 1848 - 1851
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889
Reference: B-030-001
Description: Shows Maori launching a canoe; a horse and cart are on the road to the right, at the base of a cliff Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030/002. Both slips removed in the course of conservation and no longer present. There is a faint pencil drawing of a bush scene on the verso. The backing of the work has been partially removed and the drawing is hard to see. This work was attributed by the Library to Cuthbert Clarke until 2008. However Clarke is not known to have visited the Wellington region and the style appears closer to that of R. A. Oliver, who was based in Wellington and visited the Hutt Valley on more than one occasion. One watercolour of the Hutt by Oliver is dated March 1848, another September 30th, with no year. Compare the articulation of the figure dragging the canoe at the right, with a figure in the same position, dragging a canoe at Wahapu, Bay of Islands, in Oliver's watercolour at C-001-011 Other Titles - Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863. 1848-1851 Inscriptions: Recto - 'Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030-002' according to catalogue card. Neither hand-written slip has been retained. The wording of the title suggests a later attribution, not the artist's own title. For location of this view compare with Charles Barraud's "[River valley] 1856" at B-084-005; and with G Swainson's "Road round the second gorge", lithograph in British Library - see file print of this at E-143-067. Several of Swainson's lithographs are after originals by other artists. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 327 mm
[Clarke, Cuthbert] Attributed works. :Hospital at Taranaki New Zealand erected 1848 by ...
Date: 1850
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Thatcher, Frederick (Rev), 1814-1890
Reference: E-144-043-1
Description: A view of The Gables Colonial Hospital, with trees behind it, and snow-topped Mount Taranaki in the distance This is the Colonial hospital, now called The Gables. The architect was Frederick Thatcher Quantity: 1 photograph(s) /pencil. Physical Description: Photograph of pencil & body colour drawing on tinted paper. Original drawing 173 x 251 mm
[Clarke, Cuthbert Charles] 1819-1863 :[Colonial Hospital, Auckland ca 1850]
Date: 1847 - 1853
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-010-1
Description: A half-timbered building with tall gables, a winding path leading to the front door. The hospital was designed by Frederick Thatcher. It was a wooden building, opened 1847, on the site of the present main hospital. An additional wing was built in 1859. It was burned down in 1890 Similar in style to E-144/009, on which basis the attribution is made Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing 193 x 287 mm
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles 1819-1863 :Wreck of the French corvette l'Alcmene near Kaipara...
Date: 1851
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-003
Description: View of the Alcmene close to cliffs in a high sea Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Cuthbert Clarke pinxt aux crayons, Ismire, 1851. Bottom centre: title in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon drawing, 160 x 226 mm
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863 :Group at Matamata. Mrs Nicholas [December 1849] Cu...
Date: 1850
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-057
Description: Two young Maori women seated, both with small babies. The woman on the right is identified as Mrs Nicholas. According to a manuscript from an unknown source, possibly the work of a William Gisborne, Mr Nicholas was a flax trader at Matamata in the 1840s, 'with a pretty Maori wife' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cuthbert Clarke del. 1850. Bottom left: title in the hand of the artist; bottom centre, Mrs Nicholas, in the hand of the artist. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil and crayon drawing, original 9.5 x 13.8 inches
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863 :Sketch at Matamata. Huruwai. Horowai. Cuthbert Cla...
Date: 1849 - 1850
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-055
Description: A young Maori woman standing, holding a kete on her head. She wears a tag-style cloak. On the far side, two European men are seated, one holding a sketchbook and pencil, the other smoking a pipe. The sketcher may be a self-portrait. The title suggests that the young woman may be called Huruwai or Horowai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cuthbert Clarke del. 1850 Ismir. Bottom left and centre: title in the hand of the artist; bottom centre: further title in another hand, respelling the name of the woman Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of conte & wash drawing on tinted paper, original 14.7 x 10.6 inches
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863 :Prow of a canoe, Hauraki, N Z. Cuth Clarke del 1851.
Date: 1851
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-067
Description: The carved and ornamented prow of a waka. On a hill behind on the left is a pa. To the right, a waka with two sails is drawn up at a beach Partially reproduced in Grey, George. Polynesian mythology ... (London, 1855), frontispiece. The pa is placed differently, and Mount Egmont rises behind the view Inscriptions: bottom left - Drawn and lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke, Auckland 1851 Compare almost identical views in Auckland Museum with title Head of a canoe, and in the Alexander Turnbull Library's Balneavis Album, with title E tararo tene waka [Head of a canoe], reference number E-952-f-121 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and body-colour drawing
Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Black fern-tree. N Zd. [W. Swainson del]. Cuthbert Clarke...
Date: 1849
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Reference: E-144-090
Description: A mamaku tree fern in a forest clearing, with a raupo shelter at its foot, a Maori man seated at its opening, tall tree trunks to the left. The view is in Hutt Forest Thought to be a unique surviving copy of this lithograph. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Cuthbert Clarke litho. Additional text, including title, beneath the image on both sides and centre The Alexander Turnbull Library has a watercolour copy by Frederick John White, reference number A-292-073; also two copies in pencil, ink and wash by Janetta Maria Cookson reference numbers A-048-049 and A-048-050 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph, original 6.9 x 5 inches
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles 1819-1863 :St John's College Auckland 1849. Printed at St John...
Date: 1849
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-143-032
Description: View of a large number of buildings. Several men in academic gowns and mortar boards are moving around the lawn and gardens in front A photograph of another copy held at E-144-009 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph 203 x 368 mm
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 :Tuakau N Z. C. Clarke del, 1849
Date: 1849
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-143-029
Description: Part of a pa by a river in the foreground, with Maori and Europeans bringing a waka down to the river from the left. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and wash drawing
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 :Cavern near Auckland. Cuthbert Clarke del and lith...
Date: 1849 - 1852
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Reference: E-143-063
Description: A burial cave with skulls on the floor, a tree trunk passing through a hole in the roof. The scene is near Auckland. A tree fern with two Maori standing alongside in Hutt Forest, Wellington The same cave, identified as being near Three Kings, Auckland, is shown in E-143-071 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of two lithographs
[Clarke, Cuthbert Charles] 1818-1863 :Patukah containing the remains of Te Heuheu chief...
Date: 1850
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-144-039
Description: Groups of Maori in a marae. A carved pataka is inside a palisade, flanked by two whare. Further fencing is alongside and behind the buildings. A European man, possibly Sir George Grey, stands on the left, looking towards the pataka. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and wash drawing. Original measures 9.6 x 14 inches
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 :Mangakino Bridge, N Zealand, May 1849 [Gorge with ...
Date: 1849 - 1852
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-143-070
Description: A log bridge high over the Mangakino Stream with Maori approaching and departing on both banks Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon drawing
Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 :Waikato Heads. 1849
Date: 1849 - 1852
From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].
By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863
Reference: E-143-066
Description: A view of a house and church on a riverbank at the foot of a bushy hill, the Anglican mission station of Robert Maunsell Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour