Gibraltar

Date: 1876

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-041

Description: The title on a trimmed page of a sketchbook. The watercolour to which it refers has been cut out of the book. The Library does not hold a Spanish sketchbook by E. A. Williams. It seems probable that the watercolour titled here has been glued into another sketchbook Other Titles - Gibraltar Inscriptions: Album page - title as transcribed Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Ink title on remnant of page 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1931

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-6-013

Description: View of Gibraltar from on board the `Cathay'. The town is on the left with two lighthouses in the middle distance. Land can be seen in the far distance to the right. Drawn on loose piece of paper (P & O S N Company letterhead on verso) inserted into sketchbook Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 102 x 177 mm

Date: Jan 1832-Jan 1833

From: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 : Papers

Reference: MSX-5158

Description: Diary kept by William Mein Smith while stationed with the Royal Artillery in Gibraltar (Jan 1832-Jan 1833) Quantity: 1 volume(s).

Date: 1956

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-q-578

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931

From: Castle family :Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-1613

Description: Album relating to journey from New Zealand to England via the Suez Canal. Includes photographs of floral tributes to Zillah prior to her departure; embarkation in Wellington July 1931; Voyage to Sydney; Sydney parks, buildings, zoos, beaches; Dixon family in Sydney; Melbourne gardens, buildings; Adelaide buildings, parks, gardens; King's Park, Perth, buildings, opening pearls, Serpentine Falls and Western Australian aboriginals; Colombo, Ceylon, catamarans, coconut palms, native quarters, rickshaws, High cast Indian girl; Aden; Red Sea; Suez Canal; Bedoin Sheik; Ismalia; Port Tewfik; Port Said; Voyage on 'Balranald'; Fancy dress and deck tennis, and lifeboat drills on ship; Australian heavyweight George Cook training on ship; Malta; Gibraltar; Spainish coast; First sight of England, Chalk cliffs of Dover. In 1931 Zillah Castle received a violin scholarship to the Royal College of Music, London, where she went chaperoned by Mavis, her eldest sister. They returned in 1934. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 18 x 30 cm

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-008

Description: A scene in Gibraltar showing a sailing vessel at port and houses on the hillside overlooking the sea Other Titles - Gibraltar Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in the hand of the artist Richard Taylor's father was also Richard Taylor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on album page. Physical Description: Pencil on page, 168 x 203 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Sketchbook. No. 9 [188-?]

Reference: E-375-003/004

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 95 x 318 mm.

Date: 1880 - 1890

From: Medley, Mary Catherine 1835- :Sketchbook. No. 9 [188-?]

Reference: E-375-018/019

Description: Shows a large horseshoe shaped rock on a beach Quantity: 1 drawing(s) (double page). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 95 x 315 mm.

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1057

Description: Commercial photographs and postcards collected on a trip to England in 1928. They include Perth Western Australia, the Suez Canal, Port said and Cairo in Egypt, Naples and Pompei in Italy, Toulon and Paris in France as well as a group showing the interiors of the Royal Palace at Fontainebleau, Windsor Castle, St Albans, Stratford on Avon, and Oxford in England. There is a photograph of the liner "Osterly", and others showing its first class public rooms. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1874

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-003

Description: Three men, probably soldiers, standing in conversation. They are wearing berets and two are wrapped in cloaks, while the third has a short jacket and a cummerbund. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1838

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-206-005

Description: A large cave with stalamites and stalactites. Light enters through an opening at the rear. A soldier is addressing several figures seated in the dark, in the foreground Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 206 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, 1966

Date: 1931

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :[Sketchbooks]

Reference: E-292-q-6-004

Description: View of the Rock of Gibraltar as seen from on board ship with a steamship in the foreground on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 125 x 185 mm

Date: 1874

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-002

Description: Two sketches, one showing a headlandl, a fishing boat and a sandspit with a group of people hauling in a fishing net; the other shows two sailing ships becalmed in still water Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page 170 x 240 mm

Date: 1875

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-014

Description: Rough sketch of a horse and cart seen from the side, the horse to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page 170 x 240 mm

Date: [1910s]

Reference: PA1-q-187

Description: Postcards from the 1910s, with one of the ship RMS Ormonde at the beginning. Most of the views are taken in Britain and Europe, with a few of Australia (inserted in an envelope in a pocket inside front cover, and at the end of the album), and one of the Invercargill water tower and water works (p 046). The British postcards are all tourist views of landscapes, university colleges (Cambridge), churches and other historical buildings, including Hampton Court Palace. Many of the European postcards are again of historical buildings and landscapes, but one sequence shows scenes of war damage in Belgium (pages 058-076). Many of the views show the environment before the first World War, with the same view at the end of the war. Examples of these are at Dixmunde [i.e. Diksmuide, or Dixmude], Ypres, and Ostende [i.e. Oostende]. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with red cover, stylised decoration of flowers in green and black, entitled `Post Card Album' in golden lettering; 28.0 x 22.5 cm

Date: 1928

From: Living, John Frederick, d 1978 :Photographs of the South Seas Exhibition and holidays

Reference: PA1-o-1055

Description: Trip to England; from Toulon and Gibraltar to England. There are images of groups of friends and then trips from London to Oxford, St Albans, Kenilworth, and Guildford which included villages such as Chalfont St Giles and Nuneham Courtney. Others record a walking tour through the Buckinghamshire countryside between Chenies and Rickmansworth which took in a stately home at Moor Park. Stratford on Avon and Canterbury complete the English section of this album, after which the photographer visited Paris, France Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1931

From: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995: Photographs

Reference: PA1-o-763

Description: In 1931 Eric McCormick went to England to attend Clare College Cambridge. This is a record of his trip there via Australia, Sri lanka, Suez, The Mediterranean, Italy and Gibraltar. There are photographs, but most of the images are Postcards Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1939-1945

By: Morrison, John Craig, 1918-1944

Reference: PAColl-0922

Description: Quantity: 38 b&w original photographic print(s) in one envelope in a box. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-1329, papers of John Craig Morrison.

Date: 1874

From: Williams, Edward Arthur 1824-1898 :Gibr[altar] 1874 [to 1877]

Reference: E-350-q-004

Description: A frontal portrait of a seated veiled woman, a child standing on the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on page 170 x 240 mm