Messina

Date: 1956

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

Reference: PA1-q-578

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

Date: 1810

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1856 (Collector) :[Illustrations of fish, drawn by several artists] 1768-1830

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-021-009

Description: Shows a long brown fish with small fins. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Watercolour, 220 x 295 mm

Date: 1810

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-041

Description: A small cottage in the middle distance, and three larger stone buildings in the left foreground, with two agaves in flower. The lake is on the right Title written on back Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 85 x 140 mm Provenance: Purchased: Trevor Healy Auction, 11 May 1971.

Date: 1811

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :[Eighteen sketches. 1807-1851].

Reference: A-186-040

Description: Shows a sketch of a flat river valley between hills. A figure with a walking staff stands on a hill at the extreme left, and several buidlings can be seen on hills in the lefy middle distance. There is also a long building at the head of the valley towards the right. Dated ca 1811 when Swainson executed many drawings in the area, but may well have been done slightly earlier or later. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing on sheet 197 x 330 mm.

Date: 1960-1961

From: Morris, Raymond, fl 1955-2011 :Colour slides of New Zealand and overseas

Reference: PA12-8461

Description: Photographs of Egypt, Greece and Italy, taken 1960-1961 by Raymond Morris. Includes photographs of Piraeus Harbour, Piraeus Town Hall, two tourist slides of the Acropolis, Sunday morning at St Peter's Square in Vatican City. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides.

Date: 1943

From: Park, Keith Rodney (Sir), 1892-1975 :Photographs of Malta and the Middle East, 1939-1945

Reference: PA1-q-905

Description: Album containing photographs relating to Sir Keith Park (1892-1975) during 1943, when he was Air Officer Commanding in Chief of Malta. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Clear plastic binder, 31.5 x 26 cm, containing 46 sleeves

Date: 1868

From: Simpson, William 1823-1899 :Voyage to Abyssinia, Stromboli, Etna. Suez, Red Sea, Zoula

Reference: E-064-008/009

Description: Three drawings on double-page spread. The drawing at the top and to the left of the lefthand page shows Messina from the sea with the lighthouse on the far left and two boats in the foreground. The drawing on the right shows a closer view of the lighthouse (position of the lighthouse on lefthand drawing is indicated by `A'). The lower drawing shows the Messina coastline as seen from the sea (position on the upper drawing indicated by `B'). Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two pages of a sketchbook, page size 140 x 460 mm.

Date: 1830

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-032

Description: Shows a ruined gateway from Roman times Inscriptions: Unsigned on front. Legend on back which is initialled `W.S.' `This Gateway was pulled down in 1809 (the sketch was made in 1807). It probably was intended to form an entrance to a stately country Palace, the prosecution of which was afterwards abandoned' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash, 158 x 240 mm

Date: 1868

From: Simpson, William 1823-1899 :Voyage to Abyssinia, Stromboli, Etna. Suez, Red Sea, Zoula

Reference: E-064-006/007

Description: Three drawings on double-page spread. The drawing at the top runs across the two pages and shows a coastal profile of the Calubrian coast with houses near the water's edge visible in the distance to the right. The lower lefthand drawing shows a closer view of the above coastal town. The drawing on the lower righthand side shows the lighthouse at the entrance to the Straits of Messina with a boat in the foreground to the left. Quantity: 3 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil across two pages of a sketchbook, page size 140 x 460 mm.

Date: 1807

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :[Eighteen sketches. 1807-1851].

Reference: A-186-025

Description: Shows a stalk with leaves and dark pink flowers. The Lotus tetragonolobus is also known as the Asparagus pea, or Winged pea. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on sheet 273 x 205 mm. Provenance: Purchased from Brian Groshinski, Australia, in 2003.

Date: 1810

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-044

Description: A ruined brick arch on the left, a man observing the scene in the foreground, houses and a convent with cypresses and other trees in the valley above the viewer. Inscriptions: Verso - Legend on back: 'This beautiful little valley is just at the north entrance of Messina and is the same as the Pata de Legnia [Jumara] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 157 x 227 mm

Date: 1810

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-031

Description: A small cottage in an Italian landscape Sketched 1810. W.S. Inscriptions: Verso - Initialled legend `Vine-dressers Cottage - St Fillipo near Messina situated high up the Fumara, near its commencement'. Recto: W S 1810 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing, 168 x 230 mm

Date: 1811

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-187-006

Description: Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 7.3 x 12.8 ins

Date: 1810

From: Swainson, William, 1789-1856 (Collector) :[Illustrations of fish, drawn by several artists] 1768-1830

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-021-007

Description: A fish with a blue and green body. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 160 x 240 mm