Cape Verde Islands

Date: 1851

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-006

Description: 13 small sketches of ships and headlands passed by the Duke of Portland as the artist travelled to New Zealand in 1851. They include 1. 'The Ellenborough, bound for Calcutta ... 17 June 1851'. 2. 'Anchored off Dungeness, 17 June '51' (showing the Duke of Portland and other ships); 3. 'St Antonio Island, Cabo de Verde (part III)'; 4. 'Sussex Coast, believed to be Sandgate'; 5. 'Ellenborough in sight again, 17th July '51'; 6. [Small boat under sail - circular drawing]; 7. [Yachts]; 8. St Anthony Island, Cabo de Verde (Part II)'; 9.'Springbok, American, 31 July '51'; 10. [Unidentified ships]; 11. 'Barque. Eddystone Lighthouse'; 12. 'The Elivira Harbeck from New York bound to Rio ... 22d July '51'; 13. St Antonio Island, Cape de Verd rocks, 9200 ft high (part I)' Quantity: 13 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash or ink and wash, sizes vary

Date: 1881

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-001

Description: View looking down onto ships in the harbour of Sao Vicente. There are high mountains in the distance. Other Titles - Cape Verde Islands Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Drawn during a stop-over at Sao Vicente enroute to Australia on the `Garonne' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 178 mm

Date: 1900 - 1910

From: Various artists :[Twelve sketchbooks, by Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght (3), Emily Muriel Lysaght (4), and another Lysaght family member (5). 1890-1903]

By: Lysaght, Emily Muriel, 1875-1971; Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-891

Description: Includes sketches of rocks and stormy seas, mountains and sea, and coastal profiles, possibly along the south of the eastern coast of South America; with some scenes identified: Cordildera [?], Rio entrance, Fernando de Noranha, St Paul's Rocks, Fogo (Cape Verde Islands), Madeira, Campo Santo. Artist is probably either Mary Grace Caroline Lysaght, or Emily Muriel Lysaght. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, dark green morocco hardbound, 138 x 185 mm.

Date: 1881

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-002

Description: View a man on top of a mountain peak. There are higher mountains in the distance. Other Titles - Cape Verde Islands Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Drawn during a stop-over at the Cape Verde Islands in November 1881 while enroute to Australia on the `Garonne' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 178 mm

Date: 1870 - 1879

From: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850?-1936? :[Sketchbook; New Zealand, South American, Canary Islands, and English scenes, 1870s?]

By: Lysaght, Mary Grace Caroline, 1850-1935

Reference: E-044-q-2-042

Description: An upper pencil drawing of Cap de Verde; a lower view of Las Palmas seen across the sea Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fugo Cape de Verde Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing in album, page size 228 x 296 mm

Date: 1879

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919; Baldock, Belinda, -1999

Reference: E-581-q

Description: The New Zealand section shows the Cap Verde Islands, on the journey towards New Zealand, then the journey to Mount Cook, various camps on the way and the almost completed ascent of Mount Cook by Green, Kaufmann and Boss. The Swiss section of the volume begins with the lower reaches of the Rhine, then Heidelberg, "Our whole party in the Ascenstrasse" showing three women and two men, At the Zesenberg, J. B.'s first glissade (one man slipping in the snow watched by two women and another man), the Eiger, the Munch, at Murren, Schilthorn, the Breithorn, mountain flowers including an orchid, Tschingel Pass, Fall of the Kander, Ascent of Bahnhorn, ascending Zagergrat, at Linkenbad, ascent of Dent du Midi, and Mont Blanc. Most views show two and sometimes three women climbers, probably Green's daughter Agnes and her friend Sherlock Lennon, with the third woman possibly Green's wife, according to information supplied by the donor. The volume is in two sections, in tumble format, with Swiss watercolours at one end, and the New Zealand views at the other. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: 60 watercolours, tipped in on 59 pages in sketchbook with half black morocco and dark green buckram, page size 241 x 262 mm

Date: 1881

From: Green, William Spotswood, 1847-1919 :[Journey to New Zealand and the attempt on Mount Cook, November 1881 to March 1882, and] Dodging about Switzerland in 1879.

By: Green, William Spotswood (Rev), 1847-1919

Reference: E-581-q-003

Description: View of Fogo Island as seen from a distance enveloped in cloud with just the peak visible. The sailing ship Garonne [?] is in the foreground. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - title in ink Drawn in November 1881 while the artist was en route to Australia on the `Garonne' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 125 x 178 mm

Date: 1973

From: HART Aotearoa: Collection

By: New Zealand University Students' Association

Reference: Eph-D-RACIAL-HART-1973-02

Description: Shows atrocities and white supremacy in Mozambique, and text protesting about Portuguese oppression of inhabitants of Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. Dated from Roth list at Eph-A-ROTH-Posters Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph on poster 635 x 445 mm.

Date: 1838-1842

By: Cleveland, William, active 1838-1842

Reference: Micro-MS-0505

Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s) positive (c900p.).

Date: 1886

From: Lister, Joseph Jackson 1857-1927 :[Lister album] 1886-1890 [Watercolours by Joseph, and possibly Isabella and Gulielma Lister]

Reference: E-394-f-043-1

Description: Coastal profile of one of the Cape Verde islands Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 89 x 220 mm

Date: 1814

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations of ships and naval actions]. - London [chiefly Illustrated London news, ca 1850]-1911

By: Joyce Gold (Firm)

Reference: A-248-079

Description: A broadside view of a sailing ship outlined against a high peak Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 150 x 252 mm

Date: 1853 - 1860

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-009

Description: A view from the sea of a tropical settlement, including European-influenced buildings, with hills behind. The houses are set amongst gardens with palm-trees. Attached to the same sheet, on the same paper, and probably by the same hand as A-210-008, attributed to William Fox [Coast scene in Taranaki]. Both works attributed to Fox on stylistic grounds. The beach scene is unfinished, with pencil showing through the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil 135 x 216 mm Provenance: Collection of Rev James West Stack. Possibly given to him by the artist when Stack visited Fox at Westoe, Rangitikei in late summer, 1861. Transfers: Removed from: fMS Sequence: Stack, J.W. Papers and pictures.. Processing information: Transferred to Drawings & Prints from fMS Stack, Papers and Pictures, 1970s

Date: 1842

From: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896 : Journals

Reference: MS-0104-013

Description: Journal illustration by Edward Ashworth of a chapel at Port Praia, Cape Verde Islands, visited on his journey to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Pen and ink and watercolour, 11 x 17.6 cm

Date: 1842

From: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896 : Journals

Reference: MS-0104-014

Description: Journal illustration by Edward Ashworth of the market square at Port Praia, Cape Verde Islands, done during his journey to New Zealand. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 11 x 17.6 cm