British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

Date
1849 - 1859
By
British Museum. Department of Manuscripts
Reference
E-144
Description

Includes reproductions of sketches and drawings by Charles Heaphy, George Frederic Swainson, William Anson McCleverty, Edmund Norman, Charles Decimus Barraud, C Knight, Cuthbert Clarke.

At the time of acquisition of these copies, the Department of Manuscripts was part of the British Museum. The British Library (including the Department of Manuscripts) became a separate organisation later.

Other Titles - British Museum

Quantity: 1 box(es) containing 91 photographs.

Physical Description: Photographs, 165 x 220 mm.

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[Gold, Charles Emilius] :[River scene, Tuamarina Stream, Wairau? 1851?]

Date: 1850 - 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: E-144-053-b

Description: A stream surrounded by trees, a hill behind to the right. Possibly the Tuamarina Stream Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 179 x 250 mm

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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Te Tanewha or Hook Nose aged 96. Chief of the Ngatewhanaung...

Date: 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-062

Description: Half-length three-quarters frontal portrait of Te Horeta te Taniwha. He has moko, a greenstone ear adornment and wears a hei tiki. He wears a white European shirt, Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 12 x 9 in

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[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

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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

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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

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[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

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[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

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Wyatt, Alfred Francis William, 1810-1869 :Parekino - Wanganui River. July 1848

Date: 1848

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Wyatt, Alfred Francis William, 1810-1869

Reference: E-144-026

Description: View from the opposite side of the Whanganui River, looking towards steep cliffs and hills, four hills topped with fortified pa Other Titles - Parakino Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Signed: A Wyatt del. July 1848. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing, original, 200 x 248 mm

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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

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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Committee at Pata Pata, Coromandel Harbour - the site of th...

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-144-007

Description: View from a hill above Coromandel Harbour looking down at a large gathering of Maori and some Pakeha among houses and tents, with canoes pulled up, yachts in the harbour, an island, two ranges of hills in the background. The gathering was to finalise the sale of the Coromandel goldfields Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: Chas. Heaphy. Title bottom centre in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original, 10.3 x 13.3 inches