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Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; International Art Centre (Auckland)

Reference: D-040-005

Description: A view of Lake Wakatipu on a calm day, with a snow-laden Mount Earnslaw rising in the distance, shrouded in some low cloud. In the foreground are three horesemen, their horses and a dog. One man sits astride his horse; the second sits on a rock beside his horse; and the third man bends to make a fire. The dog lies resting on its side. A tiny train of steam indicates a steam boat on the lake in the distance The Library also holds two copies of a colour photolithograph of the same scene, at C-117-019, from International Art Centre in 1982. Barraud also painted other scenes of both Lake Wakatipu and Mount Earnslaw, some held by the Library Deframed by the Library Other Titles - Making camp, Lake Wakatipu Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / 1874 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: watercolour on paper, 600 x 935 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, provenance as follows: Private collection, Auckland; National Treasures art auction, International Art Centre, March 1993; Fine Paintings and Watercolours, International Art Centre, March 1988; Fine Art auction, International Art Centre, 1971

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-001/002

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view The windmill in shown in 'Mr Molesworth's farm at the Hutt' was not built until 1845, in partnership with Ludlam Extended Title - From: Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams, 1847. Title plate, plate 1 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-038

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet, 365 x 261 mm.

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: 1855

By: Cooper, Alfred John, 1831-1869; Mouton, W J (Mr), active 1969

Reference: A-235-002

Description: Shows tent pitched beside a river, with a man sitting outside the tent surrounded by cooking pots, one of them in front of him on a campfire. Three dogs playing near him. They are watching another man chopping up tree trunks. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Title from note on mount by John Lavin Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 74 x 132 mm

Date: 1863

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :Wairarapa and Manawatu sketchbook 1863

Reference: E-172-052

Description: The interior of a large makeshift camp, with canvas held up by cut tree trunks. Inside are two dogs, a blanket drying on a line, two men seated in front of a fire. The position of the river is noted beyond the camp Other Titles - Waiotauru Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on sketchbook page, 138 x 230 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-01

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1856

By: Cooper, Alfred John, 1831-1869; Mouton, W J (Mr), active 1969

Reference: A-235-006

Description: A flat cleared area with several trees. A large tent on the left with four men outside. A dog and a fifth man close to a fenced shanty with poultry in front in the centre. A further construction on the right and hills behind. Other Titles - Living in a tent before I got a house. No. 4. The middle shanty is a cookplace Inscriptions: Mount verso - [in Lavin's hand] Living in a tent before I got a house. No. 4 - the middle shanty is a cookplace Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Monochrome wash 127 x 226 mm