Cliffs - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-004

Description: A view from near the entrance to Akaroa Harbour, with cliffs to the right, a steamer leaving the harbour on the left, and hills in the background. Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 133 x 216 mm

Date: 1896

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: B-072-001

Description: View from the south end of the beach at Gore Bay, looking up towards The Cathedrals (a series of cliffs) and in the direction of Port Robinson to the South Identification: Cheviot is the closest settlement to Gore Bay, but is about 8 km inland from the beach Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title, signature and date in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 285 x 455 mm

Date: 1882

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-029-028

Description: Shows cliffs at the heads of Akaroa Harbour. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 255 x 355 mm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

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

By: Prebble, Edward (Jnr), active 1920s

Reference: Pan-1610-F

Description: Looking down over Little Akaloa from a steep rocky hillside above the bay. Boatshed and jetty in the right foreground at the foot of a hill. Sloping areas of pasture below steep hills. Single-storeyed farmhouse and outbuildings on a knoll above the bay left centre. A church is just visible among trees to the right of the house. Another two-storeyed farmhouse is seen on a slope at the end of the bay centre right with outbuildings behind. Bridge over stream at the head of the bay. Cliffs along water's edge on left. Photograph taken by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Little Akaloa. Banks Peninsula. N.Z. No. 558; Marginal notes on negative - E. Prebble. Little Akaloa. 1 B&W. Title: Little Akaloa. Banks Peninsula. N.Z. #1. 1 to Govt.; Marginal notes on negative - 4 4 4 4 [in list formation] Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.7 x 104.1 cm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-045-1

Description: A coastal scene showing high cliffs at Clifton or Sumner Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - On the Christchurch - Sumner Road Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 235 x 180 mm

Date: 1958 to 1959

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

By: Hatwell, Neville, 1918?-1969

Reference: PA12-8803

Description: Transparency slides of Mr E G Williams' (Edmund Gardner Williams'). The first slide shows the house at 48 Hume Street, Crows Nest, Sydney owned by friends of Mr Williams. The next group are taken from a published guide to the Tarawera eruption, some showing the area before the eruption and one of the effects after the eruption. The following slides show scenes on the West Coast and Canterbury. Many relate to geological and rock formations, including Punakaiki pancake rocks, a sample of orbicular granite at Karamea and a high terrace at Karamea, rocks in the sea at Scotts Bay, cliffs on the Rakaia River, and moraine at Franz Josef Glacier. There are also images of white rata, cows heading to milking and on pasture, and a butter factory in Christchurch. The last two images were taken by Neville Hatwell, one of the Tasman Glacier from the air, and one of the road over the Crown range. Slides on this sheet are numbered 746-897, with nos. 756 to 825 (all on Australia) removed for a lecture series which Mr Williams gave when he returned to England. Those removed are filed in a later sequence. Arrangement: Mr Williams transferred slides (nos. 898-899, 901, 903, 905, and 921-922) to create representative collections on New Zealand and Australia which he used in lecture series on his return to England. Quantity: 18 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler slides, 35mm

Date: 1885

From: Moreton, Samuel Horatio, 1845?-1921 :Sounds & Mt Cook [Sketchbook] No 5. 1885.

Reference: E-788-070

Description: A view of the rocky cliffs above Governors Bay, Lyttelton Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on album page, 113 x 190 mm.

Date: 1900 - 1909

From: Alington family :[Assorted watercolours, lithographs, sketches and curios, either by or belonging to family members. ca 1833-1961]

By: Alington, John Sydney, 1879-1941

Reference: A-446-030

Description: Shows a view of the Port Hills, sketched possibly from Godley Head, at the mouth of Lyttelton Harbour. Cliffs rise up to the left of the beach, and the hills are represented on the right. The pencil inscription on the verso suggests the handwriting belongs to Charlotte Mabel Alington, and refers to a sketch by her brother John Sydney Alington (Syd) Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Port Hills look too large. Sea goodish + cliffs too, it's a pity the hills seem too high; Verso - bottom left - Old sketch of Syd's [inscriptions in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 72 x 110 mm Provenance: Artworks created by the family of Wellington architect William Alington, donated in 2011 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2000 Alington family papers.

Date: 1924

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

Reference: Pan-1425-F

Description: Panorama of Redcliffs with the sea on the right. The Christchurch Sailing Club rooms and jetty centre left. Small dinghies are moored close into shore. Yachts moored further out into the harbour. A large two-masted sailing ship is seen centre left. Houses in valley on the left, and up on a ridge centre left. Steep cliffs in the centre of the image. Photograph taken in 1924 by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Panorama of Redcliffs Christchurch N.Z. No. 530; Marginal notes on negative - [On brown adhesive tape] Redcliffs ChCh 1924 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 19.7 x 116.8 cm

Date: 1948

From: Maori rock drawings album

Reference: PA1-o-330-35

Description: View of cliffs and cave on Carter's boundary, Opihi River, south Canterbury. The cave contains the `giant dog' composition. Photographed by Theo Schoon in 1948. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - lCave on Carter's boundary Ohip River. Contains the "giant dog" composition. No 60. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 24 x 19 cm

Date: 1861 - 1871

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-071

Description: Shows hut in centre foreground, perhaps stone walls and thatched roof; two windows are visible. Behind is a hill slope with rocky outcrops. At extreme right is a glimpse of the lake, and in the background are grass-covered hills. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 145 x 190 mm.

Date: 1869

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-010

Description: View of a rocky cliff and heads at the entrance to Akaroa Harbour Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 127 x 177 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-064/065

Description: Extensive views of the South Canterbury coastline and hills, the snowy Southern Alps, 'patches of bush' mentioned. Inscriptions: Recto - above both images Oct 20; Recto - top image: Otaio looking S from the cliffs...; Recto - Bottom image: Sat Oct 24; end of Porewa and other notes by artist Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (on one page). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-006-006

Description: View looking south along the bay towards the cliffs dividing Gore Bay from Port Robinson, taking in Mrs Robinson's cottage (the two-storied cottage built for the wife of William "Ready-Money" Robinson), in 1868). Another building, possibly two, can be seen beyond Mrs Robinson's cottage. A cabbage tree is in the right foreground Inscriptions: Verso - title, date & artist's initials in pencil, lower left; also title in centre with a crossed-out question-mark in front of it. Mrs Robinson's cottage is still standing at Gore Bay. It belonged to the Tweedie family in the 1940s to 1970s Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on cream wove paper, 252 x 354 mm

Date: 1915

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: A-156-013

Description: Shows a sailboat in the centre foreground, sailing past an impressive cliff on the left. There are flocks of seagulls flying near the cliff. Unfinished sketch on verso. Same scene Inscriptions: Verso - Signed Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 332 x 394 mm.

Date: 1868

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-027-001

Description: View looking across Akaroa Harbour entrance to steep cliffs, from the opposite headland Acquired before 1941 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 133 x 216 mm

Date: 1868 - 1869

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-003

Description: Shows high cliffs taking up the height of the image, with two rowboats visible at the bottom. The "Crest" was wrecked between Akaroa North head and Flea Bay, on 27 October 1868, and this seems the most likely ketch to be the subject here. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title]. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 258 x 235 mm.

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-102

Description: Shows two houses on a steep cliff with a road beneath, probably the beginning of what became the Sumner Road at Lyttelton On the same page continuing from page 101 is the unfinished list of the movements of Mantell, Alfred Wills, William Fox, Captain Thomas and another man with the initial S around Banks Peninsula, January 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink, 60 x 103 (inverted)

Date: 1926

By: Minson, Arthur William, 1870-1962

Reference: A-348-021

Description: Shows a view looking along the coast at Motunau Beach, with a stretch of sand or lagoon in the foreground, cliffs at the left and the sea at the right. Other Titles - Motunau Inscriptions: Verso - top left - A W Minson / Motonau Beach /1926 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 127 x 178 mm.