Self-portraits

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Goldie, Charles Frederick 1870-1947 :[Self portrait sketches and photograph 1897 or 1898]

Reference: A-252-013

Description: Frontal portrait of Goldie as a small child. He is shown standing, dressed in elaboratey-decorated clothes, and sucking a drink through a straw. The sketch has been clipped out of a letter, probably written from Paris to Grace Hesketh Most probably drawn in or around 1898 when Goldie was in Paris. Compare three very similar drawings at A-252-010, A-252-011 and A-252-012, two of which form part of letters written from Paris. This letter has an imprint on the edge on the back 'Bellavoine Jeune Paris' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on wove paper, 105 x 110 mm (irregular edges) Transfers: The image is a copy of a formal studio portrait photograph (a carte-de-visite) of Goldie as a child, ca 1875. A copy of the photograph is held in Turnbull Library Pictures and the photograph itself is located at PAColl-2406. The photograph was purchased with the drawing..

Date: 1844

From: [Angas, George French] 1822-1886 :[Sketchbook 1844]

By: Angas, George French, 1822-1886

Reference: A-020-028-1

Description: Full length squatting stylised portrait of Te Rangihaeata holding a pipe or other object and carved by himself. It formed the lower portion of the central pillar supporting the roof of Rangihaeata's house on Mana Island, the house being known as Kaitangata. The image was about 4 feet high and had eyes of inlaid paua shell. Original sketch for lithograph In: Angas G F "New Zealanders Illustrated", Plate XLVI, no. 1 p.105 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 134 x 228 mm

Date: 1897 - 1899

From: Goldie, Charles Frederick 1870-1947 :[Self portrait sketches and photograph 1897 or 1898]

Reference: A-252-011

Description: Head and shoulders caricature self-portrait with witty comments about the subject's barber. Most probably drawn in or around 1898 when Goldie was in Paris. Compare three very similar drawings at A-252-010, A-252-012 and A-252-013, two of which form part of letters written from Paris Inscriptions: Recto - right of image - title inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on wove paper, 172 x 108 mm

Date: 1911

By: Low, David Alexander Cecil (Sir), 1891-1963

Reference: C-047-021

Description: A set of vignettes concerning current political and social matters in Christchurch and beyond. 'Music hath charms' shows the Salvation Army band 'leading a mutiny against the City Council' while they play loudly outside the Christchurch City Council buildings. A drunk man, seen in Dunedin, carries a large sandwich board 'Prohibition a blunder'. A cricket player getting bowled relates to 'South African cricketers' against the Australians in their 5th test. A London professor snoozes under a tree, after stating that 'the sun could do all world's work'. Two small boys, one with an executioner's axe, his dead parents behind him, discuss the murder of the parents after his mother refused to give him a penny to buy lollies. Relates to a newspaper account of a boy in Dunedin reacting violently to strict parents, including his trying to hang himself. A self portrait shows Low sobbing into his handkerchief, while he draws Tommy Taylor, but regrets the ending of the political life of Joseph Ward and William Massey for caricature purposes. Councillor Thacker pulling up a tree from Cathedral Square in the process of transplanting it rather that cutting it down. A confrontation between Britain and Kaiser Bill is about importing goods between the two countries. Four elderly men in a punch-up, holding a placard 'Peace perfect peace' refers to Dowieites in Zion City rioting Other Titles - soothe Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - David Low recit [sic] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 522 x 358 mm

Date: 1939

From: Reeve, Alan, 1910-1962 :[Collection of caricatures] / Alan Reeve. - 1938-1940, 1958

By: Reeve, Alan Llewellyn, 1910-1962; Reeve, Elizabeth, -1990

Reference: B-120-017

Description: Head and shoulder portrait of a man with a beard. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 425 x 327 mm.

Date: 1978

From: [Posters advertising exhibitions of graphic arts and two-dimensional artworks. 1978]

Reference: Eph-C-GRAPHIC-ARTS-1978-02

Description: Features a watercolour self-portait of the artist. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, sepia, on sheet 406 x 290 mm. Provenance: Acquired in 1984.

Date: 1865

From: Greer, Henry Harpur, 1821-1886 (attrib) :Maori chief Hori Tapeia; [and H G Robley] War dance [of the Ngaiterangi. 1865. Photograph]

By: Robley, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930

Reference: A-128-025-2

Description: A photograph of an original watercolour by H G Robley; this watercolour was the basis for "War dance of the Ngaiterangi. Native games at Te Papa Camp, Tauranga, New Zealand, [1865] ..." reproduced in the Illustrated London news, v 48 (1866), page 417. A large group of Maori men performing a haka, shown at a moment of leaping in the air. They are carrying a mixture of muskets and spears, and dressed in mixed European and Maori clothing. They are observed by a group of European and Maori men and women, with the artist's self portrait sketching near the centre in the foreground. In the background are low hills of Tauranga with several European buildings and a few military tents. Other Titles - Ngati Rangi Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Sepia photograph, 120 x 180 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Mike Dottridge of England in 2003.

Date: 1997

From: Garland, Nicholas, 1935- :Illustrations and cartoons by Nicholas Garland, from the Daily Telegraph, London

By: Garland, Nicholas, 1935-

Reference: A-294-021

Description: Shows full-length self-portrait, on flyer which already features a self-portrait of the cartoonist sitting frowning with a pen poised above a blak sheet of paper. The flyer advertises an illustrated talk given by Garland at the National Library Auditorium on 23 September 1997, organised by the New Zealand Cartoon Archive Trust under the auspices of The British Council and the NZ-UK Link Programme, and with the support of Brierly Investments Limited. Extended Title - On [flyer], Public lecture, Nicholas Garland, leading British political cartoonist. "The art of caricature - what it is and how it is done". Inscriptions: Recto - centre - [Signature] Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s) on printed flyer.. Physical Description: Ink on paper, 300 x 210 mm.

Date: 1959

By: Digest Print (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: ArtEph-1959-M-02

Description: Catalogue lists 96 works by artist Victor Leonard Mitchell (1925-1980), and shows a reproduction of a self portrait on the front cover. The back cover gives a paragraph of biographical notes. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on folded pamphlet, 204 x 128 mm.

Date: 1996 - 1998

By: Garland, Nicholas, 1935-; Foster, Susan E, 1946-

Reference: A-294-024/033

Description: Includes self-portrait caricatures on letters and faxes written relating to his visit to New Zealand in 1997. Dates of the letters/faxes are: 17 October 1996, 22 May 1997, 5 October 1997, 14 October 1997, 3 December 1997, 4 December 1997, 25 January 1998, 5 March 1998. Quantity: 9 drawing(s). 4 photocopy/ies (faxed copies). Physical Description: Ink drawings and text, or faxes/photocopies, on paper 302 x 210 mm.

Date: Circa 1913

From: MacLeod, Rosemary :Portraits taken by Chas Campbell, Invercargill ; albums entitled "Photograms 1913", by C A Campbell, and "family photographs"

By: Campbell, Charles, 1854-1943

Reference: PA1-o-318

Description: Five photographs taken by C A Campbell [Charles Campbell?]. They include two portraits, one of `Margot'; and one of `Arthur, taken by himself by holding a long "string" attached to his toe from his camera at the Macandrew's Bay "Batch"'. The other three are outdoor scenes in the Invercargill and Dunedin areas. Two show the Botanical Gardens in Invercargill, one with the dome of thr Basilica seen in the background, the other of a creek in the Botanical Gardens. The fifth image is of Nicholls Creek Falls, near Dunedin. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown cover, hand-lettered `Photograms by C.A. Campbell, 1913'; 20.5 x 28.5 cm

Date: 1916 - 1918

From: McFarlane, Francis Ledingham, 1888-1948 :[Sketches from war service in India and the Middle East, 1919-1918] / F L McFarlane

Reference: E-291-q-022

Description: The two pencil sketches are likely to be profile self-portraits of McFarlane. In the top sketch he sits in the river washing his own clothes. Below is a head and shoulder profile portrait of him in a pith smoking a pipe like me now? Haven't seen my face for months so excuse flattery". At top right is a ticket (probably for a bus) in Bombay, listing 278 stops, including: Sassoon Dock, Grant's Building, Museum East, Ballard Pier, Bori Bunder, Dhobi Talao, Prince's Dock, Girgaum P Ch, Pydhonie, Nall Bazar, Charni Rd Jn, Grant Rad, Foras rd, Tardeo, Mazacon. The two handwritten envelopes show several forwarding addresses. Other Titles - Dhobi Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches, printed ticket, handwritten envelopes, mounted on album page 336 x 238 mm.

Date: 2002

By: Henshaw, David, 1939-2014

Reference: H-669-003

Description: Profile self-portrait. Used on the invitation to The Famous Five Exhibition. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on A4 size paper.

Date: 1959

By: Clark, Russell Stuart Cedric, 1905-1966; Maconie, Janet Frazer Hamilton, 1913-1998

Reference: A-280-001

Description: Facial portrait showing the artist with moustache and glasses Used to illustrate the front cover of 'The drawings of Russell Clark' by Michael Dunn. (Auckland, Collins, 1976) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - R.C.; Backing board recto - Partially erased inscription "Janet Maconie". "Russell Clark". Also framer's label for McGregor Wright, Wellington. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing ; visible image 270 x 230 mm in cardboard mat 400 x 330 mm Provenance: Previously owned by Janet Maconie of Wellington.

Date: 1905 - 1986 - 1910

By: Joel, Grace Jane, 1865-1924; Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Reference: C-117-080

Description: Head and shoulders full-face self portrait. Reproduction of oil painting laid on board. Original held Dunedin Public Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured 540 x 650 mm Provenance: Deposited on legal deposit.

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-057-3

Description: Frontal head and shoulders portrait of a young man wearing glasses and a dunce's pointed cap On the verso of C-103-057-1, which is dated July 10 1849 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 69 x 98 mm

Date: [1940s]

By: Carey, Ida Harriet, 1891-1982

Reference: G-101

Description: A three-quarter head-and-shoulders portrait of the Hamilton artist Ida Carey, possibly during the 1940s, when she would have been in her 50s. She wears her hair fashionably for the time, with long drop earings visible below. She wears a necklace of gold-coloured beads and the colour of her dress and shawl match that of the neclace and earrings. She has a neutral expression, looking off to the viewer's left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - I. H. Carey [in brushpoint]; Verso - Self portrait / price 30 guineas / Ida Carey / 21 Firth St / Hamilton [in coloured pencil] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, in moulded, painted frame, 500 x 395 mm (sight)

Date: 1892

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Sketchbooks] 1890-1893

Reference: E-315-q-5-008

Description: A frontal head and shoulders of an unidentified man, top of page. Lower left, a possible self-portrait showing an elderly man with a pince-nez and moustache, inscribed 25 Jan 1892, 1/2 past 10 p.m. Lower right, a profile view of a standing man in a great-coat and bowler hat. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil in sketchbook, page size 244 x 123 mm.

Date: 18 August 1962

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

By: Jenks, William Brough, 1933-2017

Reference: A-480-010

Description: Self portrait of William Jenks. Drawing in ink on paper with inscription verso "Self-portrait William Jenks", and mounted printed caption "William Jenks - a self portrait", most likely clipped from newspaper. The drawing is date-stamped "18 Aug 1962". Title from item. Inscriptions: Verso - bottom centre - Self portrait | William Jenks [in ballpoint pen] Arrangement: Originally enclosed in suspension file with photographic prints. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink on paper, 268 x 146 mm. Transfers: Drawing originally with Evening Post International Collection, Library reference PAColl-10755-1045. Processing information: Drawing originally enclosed with folder of photographic prints - separated for reasons of preservation and storage.

Date: 1976

By: Eagle, Allie, 1949-2022

Reference: G-305

Description: Head and shoulders three-quarters frontal portrait, showing Allie Eagle (Alison Mitchell) seated in an armchair Supplied title. Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed and dated "August '76" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on board 395 x 294 mm Provenance: Purchased from the artist, Henderson, 1984 (See TL 3/1/1/4, 18/8/84 for copyright assignment