Herons

Date: 1976

By: Hamon, Rei Paul Francis, 1921-2008

Reference: C-108-020

Description: Shows two white herons in native bush beside lagoon No 145 of limited edition of 600 numbered and signed copies; original signed and given serial number by the artist Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 532 x 717 on sheet 560 x 760 mm Provenance: Legal deposit, 1976

Date: 1902

From: Various artists :[Addresses presented to R. J. Seddon and Mrs Seddon. 1891-ca.1906]

Reference: D-005-025

Description: Central text of praise for Seddon's attendance at Coronation of Edward VII, and for sending Maori forces to fight (in Boer War?). Text inset into stylised Maori carved house, surrounded by various New Zealand native trees. Top shows 4 flags, Maori in traditional and European army dress, a view of Mt Cook, and a picture of a white heron. Below text is a Maori war canoe containing Maori paddlers and European passengers. Language - A few words in Maori only. Other Titles - To the Right Honorable Richard John Seddon, PC DCL, Premier of the Colony of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Mt. Cook "AORANGI"; Recto - top centre - To the Right Honorable / Richard John Seddon, PG DCL /Premier of the Colony of New Zealand.d; Recto - bottom left - The Premier on the War Canoe / "TAWHERITIKITIKI"; Recto - bottom right - Times Coy. / del. Seddon attended the coronation of Edward VII in June 1902. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 783 x 610 mm. Provenance: Probably arrived with Seddon papers, from Seddon family.

Date: 1887

From: Gully, John 1819-1888 :[Sketchbook] / J Gully 1887

Reference: E-195-054

Description: Several white-fronted herons, probably in the Te Anau or Manapouri area Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 136 x 270 mm

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-120

Description: Drawing of the white throated heron standing beside tall grass. The plumage is slate grey with white at the throat. Several long fine feathers extend from the top of the back to the tail Other Titles - Western reef heron Other Titles - Egretta gularis Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 240 x 150 mm

Date: 1915 - 1918

By: Webb, Archibald Bertram, 1887-1944; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-068-001

Description: A heron in a river in the foreground, trees silhouetted against a sunset or sunrise Signed. Print no. 4 of an edition of 50. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Colour linocut, 182 x 213 mm on sheet 198 x 224 mm Provenance: Possiby part of the collection of Alexander H. Turnbull. Probably acquired between 1915, when the artist arrived in Australia, and 1918, when Alexander Turnbull died.

Date: 1880

By: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-068-014

Description: A rowboat moored at a river bank, with a heron standing in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 114 x 158 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1931 - 1932, 1939 - 1940

From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives

By: Powell, Arthur Walter, 1893-1970; Moore & Thompson (Firm); Male, John Gifford, 1913-2003; Browne, Victor Carlyle, 1900-1979; Collins, Tudor Washington, 1898-1970; Weigel, William George, 1890-1980; Kent, Thelma Rene, 1899-1946; Crago, Eric William, 1904-1992; Robson, Edward Thomas, 1875-1953

Reference: PAColl-0785-1-037

Description: Photographs of yachting and scenic views, 1931, 1932, 1939 and 1940, made for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance. Includes photographs of yachting, fishing, sheep droving, birdlife, lakes and rivers. Photographers include George Weigel, Thelma Kent, T W Collins, H Banfield, V C Browne, J G Male, L P Crago and A W Powell. Quantity: 42 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints

Date: [1935], 1945

From: Fell, Howard Barraclough, 1917-1994: Papers relating to Francis Hutchinson

Reference: MSX-4553

Description: Essays by Hutchinson, who described himself as a NZ naturalist, and edited by Fell. Topics include botany, ornithology, marine and freshwater biology, farming, water life, the Hawke's Bay earthquake and other aspects of natural history. Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1990s

From: Macnamara, Galvan, 1941-2004 :Family photographs, travels in the USA, friends and collegues, and the work of New Zealand artists

Reference: PAColl-8714-08

Description: Photographs of the white herons; Kahikatia forest on the West Coast; West Coast landscape views across foothills and coastal plain to the sea; industrial ruins which include stone walls and abandoned machinary; a blechnum fern in the bush. Photographs of an unidentified house in a setting of coastal native forest full of nikau palms; views of the sea and forest covered cliffs seen from the garden of the house. Views of the volcanic plateau and mounts Ngauruhoe and Ruapehu. Sequence of photographs showing a cactus in flower. Quantity: 57 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1936 - 1944

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-742

Description: Includes pencil sketches of eclipse of sun December 14th 1936; Mt Tarawera Lake Okaro; heron (design for woodcut); [nikau at] Morere Oct 1944; Morere NZ (design for woodcut); Morere Sept 1944; Wainui[?] Beach Gisborne Sept 1944; Young Nick's Head [from Gisborne]; Coast just south of Gisborne from train 9?sept/44; Mahia from Kopuawhara Stn., nikau and mountains (design for woodcut); [kowhai seedpods] (woodcut design), Maori motifs. Other Titles - "Rathbone" sketch book series 31 ... Winsor & Newton Ltd Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Hardbound grey volume, of 30 leaves, each 128 x 185 mm.

Date: 1876 - 1881

From: Gilmore, George Charles 1851-1935 :[Scenes in India, Ceylon, and Africa] 1876-1881

Reference: A-094-027

Description: Shows two hunters in long grass at the far left, approaching a pool on which ducks, pelicans and herons are resting or wading. Other birds fly overhead. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 203 mm.

Date: 1830 - 1837

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Watercolours of birds. 1828-1837.

Reference: E-256-q-093

Description: Drawing of a Blue Heron standing amongst grasses. The plumage is a grayish blue except of the feathers extending from the hind head to the base of the neck, which are rust coloured. From the breast hang long narrow feathers which are rust-coloured streaked greyish blue. Long narrow feathers extend from behind the wing to down beyond the tail. The bill and legs have not been coloured by the artist Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title in pencil; Recto - bottom left - Wings 10 3/4, Legs 7 (in pencil) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 216 x 150 mm

Reference: 1/2-008044-F

Description: A white heron standing next to what may be its nest at Harihari. Photographer unidentified. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film copy negative

Date: 1978

By: Hamon, Rei Paul Francis, 1921-2008

Reference: D-018-046

Description: Shows mountains reflected in a lake, white herons above the lake, possibly at Okarito No 197 of limited edition of 600 numbered & signed copies; original signed and given serial no. by artist Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 515 x 755 mm on sheet 594 x 840 mm

Date: 1976

By: Hamon, Rei Paul Francis, 1921-2008

Reference: C-108-020-a

Description: Shows two white herons in native bush beside lagoon No 146 of limited edition of 600 numbered and signed copies; original signed and given serial number by the artist Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 532 x 717 on sheet 560 x 760 mm Provenance: Legal deposit, 1976

Date: 1978

By: Hamon, Rei Paul Francis, 1921-2008

Reference: D-018-046-a

Description: Shows mountains reflected in a lake, white herons above the lake, possibly at Okarito No 198 of limited edition of 600 numbered & signed copies; original signed and given serial no. by artist Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 515 x 755 mm on sheet 594 x 840 mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7058

Description: Photographs of the Adelaide area taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include herons, and pelicans on Lake Alexandrina; roadside exhibition of old machines; a gum tree with a label showing where bark had been cut for a canoe; open country in northern Adelaide; bottle-house at Barossa; the Barossa Reservoir Dam, with views downstream, the "Whispering Wall" where a voice can be heard from one end to the other (140 meters), the dam after summer drought showing an exposed old bridge; carex plants (named as "nigger boys" plant in Ingle's index), and a banksia plant; the hills of Adelaide; an old mine entrance. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7057

Description: Photographs of the Adelaide area taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views include a hangar at Adelaide Airport holding the historic Vickers Vimy plane that the Smith brothers (Ross and Keith Macpherson Smith) piloted on the first England to Australia flight in 1919; control gates on Torrens River at Glenelg and the outflow; a park in Adelaide with the Torrens River running through, showing the river, a kiosk, and a fountain with shags resting on the edge, and the walkway to the kiosk; Adelaide from the hills; St Peter's Anglican Cathedral (listed in Ingle's index as a Catholic church); park near the university; a mynah bird; a waterfall in Waterfall Gully; fire in a stand of gum trees; rocks and the coastline at Encounter Bay; a heron, and swans in flight at Lake Alexandrina. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: 1969-1970

From: Blumhardt, Doreen (Dame), 1914-2009 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-8514

Description: Two views of an Australian hotel. Two groups of pots. Potters at work, 1962 and 1965. Scenic views mostly taken in 1969 and 1970 in the upper South Island. These include coastal and beach scenes taken at Motueka, Pohara, Wainui Inlet, and Takaka. These photographs focus on the lights and textures of the New Zealand landscape with patterns made by water and wind on sand, and the weathered remains of dead trees. Other unidentified views are of mountains, falling water, herons perched in and flying above the branches of a tree, a bridge over a river. There is a photograph of pohutukawas in flower, supplejack fruit, and orange fungi. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

From: Mayo, Eileen Rosemary (Dame), 1906-1994 :[Smaller works on paper. 1920s-1990s]

Reference: B-131-13-061

Description: Three birds and a turtle Probably drawn to illustrate The School Magazine, New South Wales Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: 4 ink on paper, glued to one card, 203 x 208 mm