National Library of Australia. Rex Nan Kivell Collection

Date: 1989 - 1990

From: [Posters of A3 size promoting artists, art awards, art sales and art exhibitions. 1989]

Reference: Eph-C-ARTS-1989-02

Description: Shows a reproduction of George French Angas' watercolour "The young cricketer" [1840s], from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection of the National Library of Australia. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster. Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster, 463 x 292 mm.

Date: 1863 - 1990

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915; National Library of New Zealand

Reference: C-123-005/005-a

Description: Shows Hare Pomare, his wife Hariata Pomare, their son Albert Victor Pomare, and ancestor Eruera Maihi Patuone, with Mount Taranaki in left background. Poster to advertise National Library of New Zealand exhibition "Encounter with Eden", 11 July -8 September 1990. Reproduced from original oil on canvas in Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia. Poster for exhibition "Encounter with Eden: New Zealand, 1770-1870. Paintings and drawings from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, held at National Library Gallery, Wellington, from 11 July to 8 September 1990". Original exhibited as No. 62 of catalogue. Exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden : New Zealand, 1770-1870' an exhibition of New Zealand paintings and watercolours from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, held at National Library of New Zealand, 1990 and touring New Zealand 1991-1992. Other Titles - Encounter with Eden Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Encounter with Eden; New Zealand 1770-1870; Recto - beneath image - National Library Gallery / 11 July - 8 September 1990 Quantity: 2 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Art reproductions (colour photolithographs), 443 mm diameter, on sheet 700 x 500 mm. Provenance: Deposited under copyright.

Date: 1872 - 1976

By: Maclure & Macdonald (Firm)

Reference: C-072-024-a

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Brisbane, from a slight elevation, with farmlands in the foreground, and the Brisbane River stretching across the middle distance of the picture, and appearing to be at the far point of a curve, in the centre distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At bottom right): No. 6 of an edition of 1000 copies.; Recto - beneath image - (At bottom left): Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 159 x 630 mm.

Date: 1872 - 1976

By: Maclure & Macdonald (Firm)

Reference: C-072-024

Description: Shows a panoramic view of Brisbane, from a slight elevation, with farmlands in the foreground, and the Brisbane River stretching across the middle distance of the picture, and appearing to be at the far point of a curve, in the centre distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (At bottom right): No. 5 of an edition of 1000 copies.; Recto - beneath image - (At bottom left): Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 159 x 630 mm.

Date: 1960

From: Friends of the Turnbull Library

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886; Friends of the Turnbull Library

Reference: E-040-q-007

Description: Crested greeting card Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Block print 193 x 203 mm

Date: 1813 and 1864

By: Nan Kivell, Rex de Charembac (Sir), 1898-1977; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898; Dominion Museum (N.Z.); Hale, Charles, active 1940s; Photo Studios Ltd; Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: PAColl-4529

Description: Photograph of a silver kettle presented to Sir Joseph Banks by Queen Charlotte (wife of George III) when she visited him in October 1813. Photograph of a watercolour by E A Williams of Camp Te Papa at Tauranga in April 1864. Attached to the back is an explanation of the painting by the Acting Librarian at the University of Otago in 1957. Both items are in the Nan Kivell Collection at the National Library of Australia. Two photographs of a display of New Zealand paintings held during the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition and a photograph of the engraving by Charles Barraud of the "Interior of Otake Church, New Zealand" which was included in the exhibition. Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). Transfers: PAColl-3072.

Date: 1990

By: National Library of New Zealand

Reference: E-279-q-123/128

Description: Includes: Artist unknown. River scene with Maori kainga. 1860s? - Charles Heaphy (1820-1881). Manaia, Whangarei Heads, 1850s? - John Wharlton Bunney (1828-1882). Port Lyttelton in 1858, Canterbury, New Zealand. - William Strutt (1825-1915). Hare Pomare and family, 1863. - Henry James Warre (1819-1898). From Government House, Auckland, New Zealand, March 22, 1861. - H. Percival. Otago sailing ship in full sail. 1887? Produced for "Encounter with Eden", an exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, at National Library Gallery, Wellington, 1990. Exhibited in 'Encounter with Eden : New Zealand, 1770-1870' an exhibition of New Zealand paintings and watercolours from the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia, held at National Library of New Zealand, 1990 and touring New Zealand 1991-1992. Inscriptions: Verso - top left - [Title]; Verso - bottom left - National Library of New Zealand Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 6 art reproductions (colour photolithographs) on cards, image 85 x 133 mm, on cards 105 x 148 mm (folded). Provenance: Deposited under Legal deposit.

Date: 3 Sep 1950 - 28 Oct 1950

From: Ramsden, George Eric Oakes, 1898-1962 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0196-210

Description: Consists of literary, business and personal correspondence to Ramsden Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.

Date: 1836-1983

From: Alexander Turnbull Library : Maori Manuscripts Librarian working notes

Reference: MS-Papers-6373-32

Description: Correspondence and clippings with holographic notes by Hone Tuwhare, copies and holographic notes with whakapapa of manuscript by Aperahama Taonui. Notes on the Taiaroa collection. Copies of correspondence from various collections including Wohlers papers on Atua Maori. Notes on Maori material held in the National Library of Australia, National Library of NZ correspondence Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1935-1954

From: Roberts, Rex, fl 1970-1990s (collector) :[Collection of art exhibition and dealers' catalogues, 1914-1999].

Reference: E-929-F-002

Description: Includes: New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts catalogues: 1937, 1938, 1938 (Autumn), 1947, 1954 (Autumn) Canterbury Society of Arts annual exhibition catalogues 1939, 1941, 1952 Also includes the following books: Official guide to the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition. 1939. New Zealand artists in uniform : exhibition of paintings and drawings. Wellington AEWS, 1944. Contemporary British prints and drawings selected from the Wakefield Collection, British Council. London, 1948? (2 copies) Canadian water colours. Whitcombe & Tombs, 1948. Frances Hodgkins and her circle : an exhibition arranged by the Auckland City Art Gallery on the occasion of the Auckland Festival of the Arts 1954. The Rex Nan Kivell collection of early New Zealand pictures. Wellington, 1954. Canterbury centennial celebrations : official souvenir programme. 1950. Lyttelton, 16th December 1950 : centennial day souvenir. 1950. National Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand. Landscape art c. 1600-1850; paintings and drawings in the collection of the National Art Gallery [ca 1950]. Frances Hodgkins, by Myfanwy Evans. (Penguin Modern painters). Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1948. Frank and Walter Wright : an exhibition held at the Auckland City Art Gallery, December 18th to February 22nd, 1954-55. National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, New Zealand. Souvenir catalogue of pictures and works of art for opening exhibition August, 1936. Messrs Gummer & Ford, architects. Dominion Museum, National Art Gallery and Carillon Campanile proposed to be erected on Mount Cook, Wellington. [1926-1930] National Art Gallery Wellington. Centennial exhibition of international and New Zealand art. Opened 10 November 1939. New Zealand art; a centennial exhibition. National centennial exhibition of New Zealand art. Catalogue. New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. New Zealand centennial 1840-1940. Published by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist and Publicity. Year book / Hawke's Bay and East Coast Art Society for 1952; Canterbury Society of Arts catalogues for 1938, 1941, 1942, 1949 and 1952 from Mr Roberts' donation have been shelved in the sequence in the Serials Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 16 monographs, 3 CSA and 5 NZAFA catalogues. Physical Description: Booklets and monographs sizes varying. Provenance: Donated by Mr Rex Roberts in 2003.