Places

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

Date: 1865

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: D-023-016

Description: Shows two horsemen with their horses and a dog, one man standing and using a telescope. Both men are looking down from the raised foreground towards part of a horseshoe-shaped lake, and beyond, through a dip in small hills, to another lake in the distance. There is a range of higher hills at the left, stretching away into the far distance. There are sparse cabbage trees growing on the low-lying peninsula in the nearer lake. A view from the same spot as Barraud's engraving 'Te Aute Lake, Hawke Bay', in his 'New Zealand graphic and descriptive' (London, 1877) on page 23. The accompanying commentary reads 'The lake shown in our sketch, was in 1818, the scene of a terrible disaster to the Hawke Bay natives, inflicted by a war party of the Ngapuhi, led by the great chief Tamati Waka Nene. On the approach of the invaders nearly the whole of the older people with the women and children fled to an island in the Te Aute Lake ... An excellent view of the Te Aute Lakes is obtained from the present line of railway between Napier and Waipukurau ...' While visiting Te Aute in 1865, Barraud visited Rev Samuel Williams and may have stayed with him. He may be one of the men in this view. The work was titled Landscape with two horsemen when it was copied by the Library in the 1970s, while still in private ownership. There was and is no title on the work itself. The identification of the men as surveyors appears to be a later suggestion. Te Aute Lake was drained by Europeans, possibly in the 1880s. Other Titles - Landscape with two horsemen 1866. Surveyors [former titles] Inscriptions: Verso - centre left - Molesworth Page 81, I35; Backing board recto - centre - Item seven referred to in Deed dated 17/10/75 executed by P E Smith Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 482 x 660 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by Russell Smith, a descendant of William Mein Smith.

Date: 1861

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

Reference: A-235-012

Description: A pioneer cottage nestled amongst trees, with hills behind. Two women hanging washing on fence, a small boy playing with a dog, and two cows. The house is that of farmer John Lavin, and one of the women is likely to be his wife, the child with the dog most probably his oldest son Hawles, aged about 3. The dog pictured is possibly Rover, identified in A-235-009. The Lavin family were all killed by Maori on 10 April 1869. There were three children by that date, Hawles, aged 11, Miles aged 8 and Henry aged 3. Other Titles - Front view of our house. No. 2 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - A J C 4/61; Mount recto - [in Lavin's hand] Front view of our house. The very dark cliff in the background is the opposite side of the river - no. 2. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink & watercolour 145 x 229 mm

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: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-024-06

Description: A coastal pa, with a view from inside the pa, looking out to the sea. A fish-drying rack is on the left, a woman guards a cauldron with a gourd beside her in the centre, while to the right, a European man is standing near a Maori seated on a rowboat, with a European-style house and lower whare in the background. The marae is surrounded by a low palisade. Poraiti is now a suburb of Napier City Other Titles - Poraiti Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash, 160 x 248 mm