Shag Rock

Date: 1887

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbook. [February 1886 - January 1887]

Reference: E-034-4-062

Description: Rough sketch of Shag Rock which is between Clifton and Sumner. Beneath the sketch is erased text. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 215 x 144 mm

Date: 1880 - 1890

By: Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: A-170-018

Description: Looking from Monck's Bay, Redcliffs, along the coastline, towards Shag Rock, with Cave Rock in the distance and Scarborough Hill in the background. Part of a post and rail fence is in the foreground Field/Hodgkins Collection 1967 Other Titles - Christchurch Inscriptions: Verso - Title and signature on back Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 175 x 251 mm

Date: 1882

From: Hunter, Norman Mitchell b 1859 :[Sketches of New Zealand. 1882-1883]

By: Hunter, Norman Mitchell, 1859-

Reference: E-328-f-044-3

Description: View from Sumner beach looking back towards the city, with Shag Rock to the right Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cliffs overhanging Christchurch - Sumner Road (from beach) 2/11/82 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 84 x 127 mm

Date: 1864

By: Jackson, Mason, 1819-1903; Elsbee, James, active 1858-1860s

Reference: A-343-036

Description: Shows a view looking west from beside Cave Rock, along the shore to Shag Rock, Sumner. There is a group of three buildings on the shore at the left. Illustrated London news, 26 Nov 1864, page 535 gives name of original photographer. Same engraving at E-372-f-025 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - M Jackson Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured wood engraving, 160 x 240 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Anah Dunsheath in 2002.

From: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975 :[Scenes in the Heathcote-Avon estuary district] [1950s?]

Reference: A-227-260

Description: Shows a road running between two grassy covered landscapes and a hut with hills in the distance. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 200 x 280 mm

Date: [1880s]

From: Bextaud, E J (Mrs), fl 1976 :Photographs of New Zealand

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-04

Description: Photograoh of Shag Rock and surrounding coastal area. Photograph taken by F A Coxhead in 1880s or 1890s. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Shag Rock, Sumner; Photographer's title on negative - bottom right - F.A.C. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 14.2 x 19.5 cm on mount

Date: 1880-1889

By: F Bradley & Company; Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881; Deveril, Herbert, 1840-1911

Reference: PA1-o-497

Description: Album of photographs compiled ca 1880s, from print published by F Bradley & Co, of Christchurch. Comprises views of Shag Rock, Timaru, Christchurch, Bealey, Greymouth, Oamaru, Rangitata River bridge, Dunedin, Taupo, Waimakariri River bridge, Governor's Bay, Kaiapoi, Arthur's Pass, Kawau Island, Cheviot, Akaroa Harbour, Alfred Falls, the Pink Terrace, White Island, Otira Gorge, Pigeon Bay, gold mining at Thames, Nelson, Heathcote River, the cable car across the Taramakau River, Sumner, and Tamatekapua meeting house at Ohinemutu. Also included are carte de visite portraits of Maori. Among the photographers whose work is shown are Herbert Deveril and Daniel Louis Mundy. Each photograph has a printed inscription attached on the back of the page. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with black cover; 25 x 32 cm

Date: 1895 - 1904

From: Strong, Austin, 1881-1952 :[Sketches. ca 1895-1904]

Reference: A-058-016

Description: Shows three different vignettes, one of Cave Rock with a small building and flagpole on top; one view of Rock seen from the Sumner side looking back towards Redcliffs; and one of a headland, possibly Scarborough Heads. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 180 x 255 mm.

Date: 1882

From: Haylock, Arthur Lagden 1860-1948 :Sketches by A. L. Haylock, 1882.

By: Haylock, Arthur Lagden, 1860-1948; Haylock, Greta Muriel, 1898-1980

Reference: E-060-1-036

Description: Sumner Beach, with a few houses at the foot of Richmond Hill, looking towards Shag Rock and Redcliffs Extended Title - from Sketches by A L Haylock, 1882. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 117 x 195 mm

Date: 1848-1859

From: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892: Memoirs and sketchbooks

By: Marsack, Croft Augustus, 1824-1892

Reference: E-973-1

Description: The first extant volume in a series of sketchbooks by Croft Augustus Marsack. Comprises table of contents followed by pencil and watercolour sketches numbered 33 to 76, dated 1848 to 1859. The "Index to the sketches" lists the titles as follows: - No. 33 Equihen with the warren coast in the distance. - No. 34 The Green hills (Green hill flat) Condette warren. - No. 35 Vimereux castle with point Alpreck in the distance. - No. 36 Our house at Outreau from the gardens. - No. 37 Le Portel church. - No. 38 A farm at St Etienne. - No. 39 Houses from the Liane and floodgate bridge beyond. - No. 40 Valley of the Liane and Mont St Etienne. - No. 41 The place where F Bateman shot himself (Great sea flat) Condette warren, with Mt St Frieux. - No. 42 The Tour du Renard farm with point Grisnez in the distance. - No. 43 The good hole in the Great sea flat (Condette warren). - No. 44 St Leonard's church - No. 45 Firs in the Great north flat (Condette warren). - No. 46 Vimereux and it's harbour. - No. 47 Alpreck lighthouse. - No. 48 Our house at St Leonards from the high road. - No. 49 The stone windmill on the Calais road looking towards Ouimille - No. 50 Selak mill with Ambleteuse castle in the distance. - No. 51 The forest of Hordelot from the Great flat (Condette warren). - No. 52 Ouimille church with Mont Lambert in the distance. - No. 53 The farm at the top of the hill on the road to Outreau. - No. 54 The lighthouse at Beachy Head, looking towards Newhaven. - No. 55 Westdean, near Seaford, Sussex. - No. 56 Mr R Lovegrove's house at Caversham near Reading. - No. 57 The Northern end of Papanui Bush Cant[erbur]y Set[tleme]nt New Zealand. - No. 58 The Land Office with Messrs Barker's and Brittan's houses Christchurch. - No. 59 The Waterloo Hôtel, Porirua road, Wellington NZ. - No. 60 The church at Nelson, New Zealand. - No. 61 The Government House, Sydney, Australia. - No. 62 The Château d'Argnes, near Dieppe. - No. 63 Entrance to the harbour of Dieppe. - No. 64 Caversham Park House from Mr R Lovegrove's premises. - No. 65 Auckland, New Zealand, from the Epsom Road. - No. 66 Stricklands, residence of the Rev[ere]nd Charles Mackie, near Christchurch. - No. 67 The cemetery Christchurch. - No. 68 The Bricks wharf River Avon Christchurch with my house and Mr Beau. - No. 69 Mrs Deans' house, at Riccarton Bush. - No. 70 The Shag Rock and Sumner Bar. - No. 71 Beulah on the Avon (back view). - No. 72 Mr Hichin's house on the Avon. - No. 73 Beulah on the Avon (front view). - No. 74 Town of New Plymouth from the sea, and Mount-Egmont. - No. 75 View of the Claireau looking towards Sellier's house. - No. 76 The Château de Quéhen. The captions from the preliminary index pages are not repeated on the sketches, which have the number inscribed in the top right and in many cases the year in the top left corner. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil, and watercolour, in bound sketchbook, 46 leaves of watermarked paper, black cloth boards with printed ornamental frame design around title "Album", stationer's label on front pastedown "Watel | Libraire | Boulogne S. M.", 140 x 210 mm.

Date: 1859

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: E-340-q-004

Description: A view of Shag rock with a sailing vessel in the background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Shag Rock New Zealand. 1859. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 260 mm

Reference: A-104-011/018

Description: Enclosed in a folder titled 'Illustrations for article on Sumner Cave'. Comprises one drawing of partly-shaped adzes with a lithograph based on the drawing, a picture of Shag Rock at Sumner, a plan, possibly of a rocky outcrop near the mouth of the Rakaia River, an image of a feather (possibly a moa feather), a scientific drawing of a rocky outcrop with the sea on the right, a swamp on the left (possibly early Redcliffs), a limestone cliff with a shelter close to sea or a river, with two men, Maori rock drawings (possibly from the limestone cliff shelter), a map of the mouth of the Rakaia River, 'Cryer's homestead' and possibly an archaeological site of a Maori village at the river mouth. Includes copy of rock drawings. Possibly drawings for an article on early Māori in Canterbury by Johannes Andersen; or from the Polynesian Society Other Titles - Sumner Cave Quantity: 7 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, lithographs, sizes vary ca 101 x 152 mm

Date: 1886 - 1887

By: Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-034-4

Description: Includes scenic sketches around the Manapouri area, sketches of Shag Rock, Sumner, and portrait sketches. Inscriptions: Album front cover, in ink: Sketch Book [underlined]. Isabel Hodgkins Feb 14th 86. Inside front cover: Isabel Hodgkins, Weara, Ravensbourne Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, on 67 pages in sketchbook, 215 x 144 mm.

Date: 1887

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbook. [February 1886 - January 1887]

Reference: E-034-4-064

Description: Sketch of Shag Rock, a large rock near the foreshore between Clifton and Sumner. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on page of sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 215 x 144 mm

From: Adkin, George Leslie, 1888-1964 :Photographs of New Zealand geology, geography, and the Maori history of Horowhenua

Reference: 1/4-023244-G

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1866

From: [Cookson, Janetta Maria] 1812-1867 :Auckland Wellington 1861 1851-1865

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Cousins & Wolfe (Firm)

Reference: E-340-q-012

Description: Shows a two-masted boat pulled up on to the beach in the right foreground, with Shag Rock in the left middle distance. One of a set of five lithographs that could possibly be after Janetta Maria Cookson originals, or could be after an original by Thomas Selby Cousins. The lithograph must have been produced before 1867, the year of Janetta Cookson's death. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Cousins & Wolfe, Litho; Recto - bottom right - Christchurch, N.Z.; Recto - beneath image - (In pencil): 1866 April Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Coloured lithograph 145 x 203 mm, tipped into sketchbook.

Date: [Circa 1870s to 1885]

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908; Ring, James, 1856-1939

Reference: PA1-o-387

Description: Photographs of New Zealand taken by various photographers before 1886, of whom F A Coxhead and James Ring are identifiable. Most of the images have captions, and names of places and buildings etc. are listed above. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with blue cover, black corners and spine, entitled `New Zealand scenery' in gold lettering; 20 x 26 cm

Date: 1887

From: Hodgkins, Isabel Jane 1867-1950 :Sketchbook. [February 1886 - January 1887]

Reference: E-034-4-063

Description: View of Shag Rock between Sumner and Clifton Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 144 x 215 mm

Date: 28 Jul 1880

By: Hutton, Frederick Wollaston, 1836-1905

Reference: fMS-Papers-5949

Description: Illuminated letter of farewell from the Otago Institute to Professor Hutton on his departure from Dunedin Hutton was moving from his position as professor of natural history at Otago University to become professor of biology at Canterbury University College Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Illuminated manuscript with mss text, gold address and watercolour paintings Provenance: Unknown; donor had been given it in England `because I was a New Zealander'. Watercolour illustrations of Lawyer's Head, Otago; Milford Sound; Caples Valle;, on the Leith; Shag Rock, Sumner; Kinloch; Coast Scene, near Nelson; and one unidentifiable scene

Date: [1915-1941]

From: Cowan, James, 1870-1943 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-11310-146

Description: Research papers including correspondence, drafts, research notes, photographs and some clippings based around Cowan's book 'Maori folk tales of the Port Hills' published in 1923. They were in an envelope which was annotated with 'Port Hills. Clippings from book on Canterbury, Tikao etc'. Includes correspondence from William A Taylor from 1935 about the Maori history of Canterbury and Otago, also a letter from H Fildes entitled 'Cannibal Gorge' relating to the Ngai Tahu history from the West Coast. There is also a handwritten account [in an unknown hand] about Hinepoupou from Rangitoto Island [D'Urville Island], and a handwritten list of Maori place names from Banks Peninsula, written by Ngai Tahu leader Hone Taare Tikao in 1915. Other research notes and drafts including one about Pelorus Jack, the famous dolphin. Two photographs of Tuawera [Cave Rock, Sumner] and Rapanui [Shag Rock, Sumner] and a photograph of 'Cocksfooters at work, Banks Peninsula...'. Language - Some place names etc in Maori Arrangement: 32 in original listing Quantity: 1 folder(s). Two photographs of Tuawera/Cave Rock, Sumner and Rapanui/Shag Rock, also a photograph of cocksfooters at work, Banks Peninsula, annotated on the back and signed by Buckland. Also a card with an image on the front of Rapanui/Shag Rock.