Sketchbooks

Date: 1864

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Smith, Russell Wordsworth, 1913-1983

Reference: E-174

Description: Views of Kaikouras, Timaru, Oamaru, Queenstown Wakatipu, Mataura River, Tuapeka, Picton and Pelorus Sound Acquired with E-171, E-172 and E-173: Wairarapa and Wellington sketchbooks; E-171 is signed J C Crawford The sketchbook comprises 75 pages; see subsidiary records cataloguing of individual pages Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink drawings (49) (7 with wash) 135 x 179 mm, ¼ navy morocco, purple buckram Provenance: Previously estate of Russell Smith, Masterton.

Date: 2009-2019

By: Laing, Sarah Elizabeth, 1973-

Reference: ATL-Group-00943

Description: Collection comprises original works by fiction writer and graphic artist Sarah Laing. Includes original comics of Laing's autobiographical webcomic 'Let me be Frank' (2009-2019); a partial manuscript of 'Mansfield and Me' (2016); illustrations from Laing's novel 'The Fall of Light' (2013); and eight sketchbooks which complement these three works. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 5 original cartoon(s) water colour and pen on A4 paper. 2 box(es). Processing information: Most recent accrual to this collection has not yet been processed by staff.

Date: 1848-1852

From: Mantell family : Papers

Reference: qMS-1310

Description: South Island scenes, chiefly Canterbury and Otago, also Marlborough. Surveyors' camps, Maori pas and other identified scenes Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss (photocopy) (35 cm; maroon slip case)

Date: 1860s

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: Micro-Art-004

Description: 1. Sketchbook of a journey up the Rangitikei River 1862 (51 drawings); 2.Sketchbook of a journey to Havelock and the Pelorus Sound and Central Otago, 1864 (75 drawings); 3. A journey up the Manawatu River, 1862 (94 drawings); 4.Journey up the Wanganui River, 1861 & 1862 and other journeys (71 drawings - ); 5. A journey from Upper Hutt to Waikanae, Jan 1863. 6. A journey to the Waikato, Feb. 1864; 7 & 8. A journey to the Wairarapa, 1863. Physical Description: Negative microfilm (486 frames)

Date: n d

From: Crawford family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1001-031

Description: Pencil sketches of - France, Greece, Crete, Africa, Chatham Islands, Australia, Wellington Harbour, Samoa, Honolulu, San Francisco, California Quantity: 1 volume(s).

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field, George Alexander Hughes, 1905-1992

Reference: E-016-6

Description: Mostly pencil drawings done in May 1871 on a trip to Southland, including Riverton, the Waiau River, Lynwood Station and Lake Te Anau The pages are detached from the binding and many appear to have been rearranged Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, ca 70 pages, page size 101 x 177 mm, black morocco cover, brass clasp

Date: 1891

From: Cowan family: Collection

Reference: E-965-f-12

Description: Blue Lake in foreground, with the Red Crater and Ngaruahoe both steaming in the background, with a snow-clad Mount Ruapehu beyond. The beginning of a pencil sketch of mountains on the reverse is titled "Ngaruahoe & Tongario from Rangipo desert". Other titles - Te Wai-whakaata-o-te-Rangihiroa. 25 April 1891 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - View from top of Tongariro April 25/91 [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - Blue Lake - Te Wai Whakata o te Rangihiroa (Rangihiroa's mirror) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on loose insert,

Date: 1846 - 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871; Moresby, Caroline, 1845?-

Reference: A-288-001/039

Description: Views of Pipitea Pa, Porirua, Wellington Harbour, Hutt Valley, Rangitoto Island, Auckland Harbour, New Plymouth, Vanuatu, 2 of Europe All watercolours removed from album pages and stored separately. Album retained in the additional box at A-288. Inscriptions: Album cover, inside front cover. Artist's name and his inscription to his third daughter, Caroline, a grand-daughter's poem, other inscriptions. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) 37 watercolours, 1 pencil sketch, MS notes on inside front cover. Physical Description: Watercolours, sizes vary Provenance: Given by the artist to his third daughter, Caroline (later Moresby), then by family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1830 - 1850

By: Mantell, Gideon Algernon, 1790-1852; Mantell, Mary Ann, 1795-1869; Dinkel, Joseph J, active 1830s-1860s; Scharf, George Johann, 1788-1860; Basire, James, 1796-1869; Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; Mantell-Harding, Alton Cyril William, 1896-1975

Reference: E-330-f

Description: Includes watercolour by George Scharf "Reptiles restored", watercolours by Joseph Dinkel, watercolours and drawings by Gideon Mantell and Mary Mantell, engravings and lithographs by Scharf, Dinkel and James Basire, chiefly of fossil remains (particularly of the iguanodon) and geological drawings and including reprints or proof prints from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Scrapbook and sketchbook 52 cm high Provenance: Mantell family; Probably the 'Book of sketches by G A Mantell' donated by Mrs A C W Mantell-Harding, Wellington, on 29 6 1948 Transfers: transferred from the Manuscripts Collection 1970s?.

Date: [1972-1980?]

By: Scales, Helen Flora Victoria, 1887-1985; Tennant, Patty, active 1992; de Lange, Barbi, active 1960s-1998

Reference: E-584

Description: Six pages of sketches showing boats in a harbour (four pages are entitled "Colombo", one dated 1 May '77; and may refer to the name of the boat but probably to a port at Colombo. Flora Scales visited England and France in 1977 and may have gone by boat. One of the images is entitled "May at sea"). A page near the back lists what may be a shopping list: Easter cards, stockings, brassiere, hair grips, turps. Title and provenance from accompanying slip of yellow paper. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook of 36 leaves, 62 x 103 mm, 7 of which contain pencil drawings. Provenance: Lent to Barbi de Lange by the artist's niece Patty Tennant in 1992.

Date: 1911-1913

By: Smith, Sydney Ure, 1887-1949; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-025-q

Description: Views of Sydney, some dated 1911, 1912 and 1913 Drawings are dated between 1911 and 1912 while a related etching is dated Aug 1915. Title printed on front cover Inscriptions: Inside front cover: Bookplate of Alex H Turnbull, Fortuna favet audaci, showing a man turning aside a bull; label of Tyrell's Bookshop, 22 Castelreagh St, Sydney Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Watercolours, pencil, ink and crayon sketches of Sydney. ¼ vellum, brown boards, spine height 328 mm. Images glued to brown paper pages. Provenance: Collection of Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, acquired between 1913 and 1915? The volume appears to have been compiled by the artist as a presentation album for sale.

Date: 1861

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-017-5

Description: Drawings from design classes, fantasy drawings, cartoons, landscapes. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, 66 x 113 mm (page size); dark brown calf, blind-tooled front and back, brass clasp

Date: 1866 - 1869

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Five sketchbooks with views of Dunedin and district and manuscript notes]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-017-1

Description: Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, 74 x 128 mm (page size); morocco, gold rule, brass clasp

Date: 1853-1885

By: Richmond, Christopher William (Hon), 1821-1895

Reference: E-284

Description: Include views of Central Otago, West Coast, Marlborough, Wellington, Bream Head, Egypt, England, France, voyage to England, seascapes, yachts and ships. For details see records for individual pages. At head of title: Richmond and Atkinson family papers, vol 45. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) containing. 85 drawing(s) (pencil). 4 drawing(s) pencil and ink. 1 drawing(s) pencil and wash. Physical Description: Art originals, pencil, 170 x 230 mm or smaller, in album, 240 mm, 1/2 blue moroccco, blue buckram Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - acc. 77-253: Richmond and Atkinson papers.

Date: 1931

By: Hill, Mabel, 1872-1956; Mason, Elizabeth, 1909-

Reference: E-517

Description: Pencil sketches and watercolours showing: Woman among rocks watching rowboat, Capri - Faraleone or Faraglioni rocks[sic], [Hillside and hilltop dwellings], The cave of Mithras - Sept 1st 1931, Looking from the cave of Mithras Sept 1 1931, Lucy Flannigan [sketching], [Sketch of] boats and boatmen, [Sunset with yacht], [more sketches of boats and boatmen]. The Faraglioni rocks are on the seaward side of Capri. (Information from Kendrah Brimblecombe 18.11.1996). Inscriptions: Album page - (Inside front cover): Mabel McIndoe / Sherbourne...(mainly Capri 1931) Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Hardbound book, 13 leaves, 140 x 233 mm.

By: Hodgkins family

Reference: E-038-q-2

Description: Most of the contents is work by William Mathew Hodgkins, including views of Taranaki, 1869 Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Bound and loose drawings various media, in hand-made sketchbook, grey stitched paper covers and endpapers, cream centre sheets, 230 x 150 mm, containing additional loose drawings of varying sizes Transfers: One pencil drawing, folded in four, on fragile tracing paper, unfolded and moved to separate location, B-183-031; another, on lined paper moved to location A-447-014, in November 2011.

Date: 1880 - 1900

By: Velden, Petrus van der, 1837-1913

Reference: E-048-f

Description: Landscapes, especially rock and sky studies (some probably of Bondi Rocks, Sydney and Sydney Heads), buildings, a preliminary study for the oil Funeral at Marken, studies of people. One double-sided pencil and watercolour sketch removed and framed in the 1970s: 'Creek' [Bondi Rocks] located at G-488 Dated around 1900. Van der Velden was resident in Sydney until 1904, when he moved to New Zealand Inscriptions: Inscriptions in Dutch and initials PvdV inside front cover in pencil; also inscription on page one. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Charcoal, pencil and watercolour, page size 254 x 370 mm, fawn linen covers, 1/2 red morocco & buckram box.

Date: 1870 - 1871

By: Marcroft, J W, active 1870-1918; Wright, Keith A, active 1997

Reference: E-564

Description: Contains pencil sketches of Neils Flat [or Flax?] Mills (by A E B), Wakaperau Camp, Our camp at Hunts Bush May 1870 (by A E B), Mr Hunts residence May 1870 (by J W M), and untitled sketches of church buildings, sailboats, and European scenes of ponds, churchyards (by A I C?) and J W M. Wakaperau may be Whakapirau, or possibly Whakapara; both are farm localities in Northland. Newspaper cutting from "The Dominion" 21 March 1928, page 6, confirms that J W M, is likely to be J W Marcroft. The donor's letter at AT 10/14, gives additional biographical information about Marcroft. Inscriptions: Album page - bottom right - (on front cover): J.W.M. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Soft covered sketchbook, 190 x 260 mm. Provenance: Donated by Mr Keith A Wright of Brisbane, in 1997.

Date: 1870 - 1873

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field, George Alexander Hughes, 1905-1992

Reference: E-016-4

Description: Inside back cover: label headed T J & J Smith's ivory surface metallic memorandum books ... London Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Sketchbook, ca 70 pages, page size 88 x 153 mm. Dark green morocco cover, blind embossed rule inside edge, marbled endpapers

Date: 1844

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042

Description: Views of Auckland, Northland, Australia, Djakarta, Hong Kong, Chili Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash and watercolours in sketchbook, morocco boards