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Date: 1860 - 1900

By: Mair, Gilbert, 1843-1923; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-081-001/006

Description: Sketches depicting incidents arising out of a taua or raiding party visiting Parawera settlement to exact revenge after a case of adultery. The marae, various groupings of iwi, dances, fights, haka, horseriding, and competitions are depicted, along with a visit from the police. The Parawera group were Ngati Apakura, Te Wherowhero's iwi, and the visitors in search of payment were Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Hourua and Ngati Koroki. Ngati Haua are also mentioned in one sketch. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper ca 230 x 320 mm Provenance: Given to Alexander Turnbull in 1913 by Gilbert Mair. See covering letter of 17 November 1913 in MS 57, Folder 64. A typescript copy is held with the drawings in Box A-081. Mair ironically compares the artist to the French portraitist of Napoleon, Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Standidge & Company; Trelawney Saunders Ltd; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: D-016-010

Description: View looking out to the harbour, a fenced ploughed area to the left, framed by a tree, a man reclining on two felled tree trunks and others standing, talking, cows, a dog, huts and houses closer to the water's edge on the right and several ships in the harbour. Original pencil drawing with same title, identifying "Heyward's Point, Tairoa's Head, Custom House" (held at C-012-003) Backed with paper and linen Extended Title - Published and sold by Trelawney Saunders [1849? Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph 396 x 754 mm on sheet 603 x 880 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull. Ordered in a letter to Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 20 April 1896, for 42 shillings

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-014

Description: Shows 2 men on left, boiling a billy over a fire, with sheep and dogs, Bridle Path in centre with three men, a horse, sheep and cattle, the Heathcote River and part of the Heathcote-Avon Estuary, Pegasus Bay, and smoke and trees at the site of the future Christchurch. Original sketch for etching by T.Allom published in "Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" (London, 1851. Art f919.31 / FOU). On verso: "Alphabetical list of the first purchasers of land at the Canterbury settlement" and references to correspondence between Governor Grey and Earl Grey. Other Titles - Lyttelton = Christchurch; River Avon or Shakespeare = Heathcote River; Forty Miles Beach = Pegasus Bay Cf similar watercolour in the Hocken Library: Part of the Great Plain Canterbury, N.Z. 1851 (neg.1/2-105095-F) taken from the same spot by the same artist but with no staffage. This ink drawing may be a copy by H. J. Cridland of Fox's original, or of one of the prints of the same scene published in August 1851. Compare the style of A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective, and the style of rendering figures. The artist was present to welcome the first settlers in Canterbury in 1850. In 1851 he was back in England for some time before returning to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper 206 x 321 mm (wedge cut from upper left corner) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in London? Processing information: Originally tipped in to Great Britain. Parliamentary Papers, 1850, cd [1136]. Removed 1987 or 1988.

Date: 1843 - 1851

By: Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-195-017

Description: A naive watercolour of the Deans brothers' farmhouse and outbuildings, viewed from across the "Avon or Shakspear River", with horses, cows and sheep in the foreground, a log bridge, a man (presumably one of the Deans brothers) with a dog under a tree. The house is red, with a second storey with dormer window, a rain barrel below the downpipe from the roof. The outbuildings to the right of the house appear to be thatched stables, are open at the front and shelter a horse and three carts. Trees are roughly indicated behind the house. On the verso are holograph notes about Banks' Peninsula, copied from Duppa, Daniels [?] and Tyrell and from Captain [William Mein] Smith about Port Cooper (Lyttelton) and its merits for settlement versus those of Akaroa. Dating: William Deans was drowned in 1851, a fact that is not mentioned here, suggesting, along with the general tone of the notes, that this drawing may have been completed before then, although the two-storied building on the site was not completed until 1856. Other material from the same source was produced about 1850 or 1851. William Mein Smith's report was completed about 1843. The page has been removed from a notebook. The author of the notes (and artist) appears to be somebody associated with the Canterbury Association. The first two-storied house at Deans' property was built in 1856, when Jane Deans built a larger house on the site in preparation for the arrival of her brother and his family. The house shown here may be the 1856 north-east section, the earliest part of modern Riccarton House. Other sections were added in 1874 and 1900, resulting in a much larger building. One possible artist is John Henry Cridland, whose other drawings from the same source are quite naive. However another drawing by him of the Deans' property (neg MNZ 1215 1/4 - 'Riccarton, November 1850' - Hocken Library) is very different in style from this one. Identification: The building shown appears to be a roughly-drawn version of the first two-storied house on the site, completed in 1856. Other drawings of the same building appear as Plate 5 and Plate 14 (the latter by Robert Park) in Pioneers on Port Cooper Plains. The Deans family of Riccarton and Homebush by John Deans (Christchurch, 1964). Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink as above, with "only 50 Godley" in pencil in another hand]; Recto - centre right - [in river, in pencil]: Avon or Shakspear River.; Verso - [in ink, page covered in text] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watecolour on laid paper 310 x 198 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to a volume of The New Zealand Journal, ca 1852, from Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's collection. Prior to acquisition by Alexander Turnbull the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-145-007

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with carved prow, containing 2 figures, one Maori, one European, and a dog, alongside a raft or mokihi being paddled by a young Maori man in the foreground. Both craft negotiate river rapids. In right foreground a fallen tree trunk is a perch for a few birds, and in the background cabbage trees stand in front of denser bush. The scene is thought to be close to modern Canvastown The rapids, or low waterfall on the Pelorus River, were close to modern Canvastown Listed by the New Zealand Company as received in London by the Company [before 1842], item no. 5 E J Wakefield wrote about travelling with his uncle William Wakefield up the Pelorus River between 6 and 16 September 1839 and mentioned that the paddler on the mokihi or raft was a 12-year-old boy. perched in the centre of a raft made of two bundles of raupo tied with flax. (Adventure in New Zealand, 1845, page 63). Heaphy remained with the Tory, in Tory Channel Other Titles - Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 5; Verso - top centre - No. 1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 364 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, with other New Zealand Company material, Francis Edwards, London, 1914.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.