Gardens - New Zealand - Auckland Region

Date: 16 February - 21 March 1958, 1960

From: Tomsett, Maurice William Henry :Colour slides of New Zealand

Reference: PA12-7766

Description: Phase 8 continued - 170. Cornwall Park, sheep grazing; 171. One Tree Hill Memorial, Sir John Logan Campbell (Early settler); 172-173. Overlooking Ellerslie, Penrose; 174. Onehunga, Manukau Harbour; 175. Memorial, Mt Hobson in background; 176. Royal Oak, Epsom, Memorial; 177. Volcanic crater below memorial; 178. Auckland airport. Three slides of views of Auckland in 1960. Includes views of the Winter Garden (Auckland Domain), and aerial views over the city Quantity: 12 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: 1863

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-038

Description: Pohutukawa flowering in the foreground of a view probably taken from the garden of Judge William Martin, Judges Bay. The view takes in North Head and Rangitoto Island in the background. Purchased with A-161-032/041. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 177 x 272 mm

Date: 1860 - 1880

From: Artist unknown :Sir William Martin's, Taurarua [1880s?] [And - Mount Egmont from New Plymouth with a settler's homestead, fences and cleared land. 1880s?]

Reference: A-090-020-1

Description: View from below a substantial house with several wings, single-storied, through an established garden. Other Titles - Judges Bay, Auckland Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in (possibly) the artist's hand with "Taurarua [Auckland]" added in another hand. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper glued to tan sketchbook page 128 x 194 mm on sheet 192 x 273 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

From: Artist unknown :Watercolours of New Zealand during the Waikato War of 1863 and on the voyage back to England, 1864.

Reference: A-161-040

Description: Shows tall trees and a flax bush in the foreground, with garden beds and lawns, a few houses on a hill to the left and sailing ships in the harbour in the background. A-161-032/041 and B-064-022 purchased together. All appear to be by the same hand. Inscriptions: Verso - [title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 231 X 175 mm

Date: 1929

By: Donner, Tibor Karl, 1907-1993

Reference: A-128-013

Description: View of the whole frontage of the building seen from between tall tree trunks in the left foreground, a bed of flowers and a cabbage tree in the right foreground. The artist "Tib" Donner was Auckland City Architect and a friend of architect Cedric Firth's Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper 257 x 309 mm

Date: 1885

By: Outhwaite, Anne Jane Louisa, 1842-1925

Reference: A-176-012

Description: Shows Swainson's home at Judge's Bay, now the site of the Parnell Rose Gardens, with a view out to the Harbour, with North Head and Rangitoto. A willow tree and a Norfolk pine are distinguishable amongst the plants on the right. Inscriptions: On separate label: View of Auckland Head and residence of the late Hon. W. Swainson first Attorney-General of New Zealand by Miss Isa Outhwaite of Auckland, artist, 1885. Taurarua.; Verso - Taurarua. With I. O's love Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 115 x 153 mm

Date: [Between 1897 and 1903]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959

Reference: PA1-f-194-36

Description: Lady Constance Knox mounted on her horse Bruno, in the garden of Government House, Auckland. Two photographs taken between 1897 and 1903 by Herman John Schmidt of Auckland. In the upper photograph (PA1-f-194-36-1) horse and rider are facing left; in the lower photograph (PA1-f-194-36-2) they are facing right. Source of descriptive information - Photographer identified from PA1-f-194-33, which was taken at the same time. At the time this photograph was taken, the studio was still operating as the Charles Hemus studio, although Herman Schmidt was the active photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - Lady Constance Knox Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographs mounted on album page, 27.2 x 35.9 cm (page size)

Date: 1994

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6554

Description: Native clematis in flower in garden at 24 Polkinghorn Drive Whangaparaoa Peninsula, Auckland (October 1994). Coral fungus and flowering pohutukawa, Wenderholm Regional Park (September 1994). Flowering pohutukawa, Army Bay, Whangaparaoa Peninsula (December 1994). Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: 1892

By: Schmidt, William Shaw Diedrich, 1870-1968; New Zealand Graphic and Star Printing Works; New Zealand Graphic and Ladies' Journal

Reference: D-001-004

Description: In the left foreground a drive with horse and carriage, fenced with formal young plantings. In the centre and right foreground, partially cleared native bush, including flax, treeferns and cabbage trees. Rangitoto Island and North Head on the far left, the harbour in the centre and the city with its volcanic cones in the background. Other Titles - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21 1892. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Supplement to the Christmas number of the New Zealand graphic, Dec 21, 1892. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 304 x 898 mm on sheet 455 x 1015 mm

Date: [Between 1897 and 1903]

From: Ranfurly family: Collection

By: Schmidt, Herman John, 1872-1959

Reference: PA1-f-194-22

Description: Government House, Auckland. Two photographs taken between 1897 and 1903 by Herman John Schmidt of Auckland. The upper photograph (PA1-f-194-22-1) shows the front of the house looking from the north east; the lower photograph (PA1-f-194-22-2) shows the house and gardens looking from the west. At the time these photographs were taken, the studio was still operating as the Charles Hemus studio, although Herman Schmidt was the active photographer. Inscriptions: Album page - top right - Government House, Auckland [inscription runs across two pages] Quantity: 2 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Two photographs mounted on album page, 27.2 x 35.9 cm (page size)

Date: 1922 - 1940

From: Brooks, Catherine, 1884-1980 :[Thirty (30) watercolours of Auckland, Onehunga and Rotorua. 1922-1940].

Reference: A-306-046

Description: Shows a view in the Gardens at Onehunga, across a sunlit mown lawn towards a bed of red canna lilies underneath a norfolk pine. There is a white wooden house with red roof in the right background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 146 x 255 mm.

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-b

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: 1887

From: Hands, Alfred Watson, 1849-1927 :[Scenes in New Zealand] 1865, 1881, 1887

By: Hands, Alfred Watson (Rev), 1849-1927

Reference: A-254-014

Description: A young Norfolk pine growing in a lawn, flanked by part of the trunk and a few branches of one of the native pines with dense low trees in the background. A few visible branches overhead may be from a eucalypt Other Titles - Near Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 355 x 180 mm Provenance: Donation; Mrs M S G MacLeod, Tunbridge Wells, 12 August 1977

Date: 1885 - 1886

By: Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)

Reference: D-001-006-a

Description: Birds eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east. The only known detailed birds-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm

Date: ca 1861

From: Urquhart album

By: Kinder, John, 1819-1903; Warre, Henry James, 1819-1898

Reference: PA1-q-250-39

Description: Photograph of a painting (possibly by John Kinder or Henry James Warre) depicting the view over the Government House lawn, and Auckland Harbour. Rangitoto is in the background. Date, and location, of original, unknown. Photographer unidentified. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - Man of war Rangitoto Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 13.6 x 19.9 cm, with trimmed upper corners, mounted on album page 27.1 x 21.7 cm

Date: [1860s-1870s]

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA7-48-06

Description: View of Sir George's Grey home on Kawau Island, taken from `The Terrace' to the left of the house, by Daniel Louis Munday, in 1860s or as late as 1870s. Shows the garden area to the left of the house, the flagpole and the jetty. Other views of Sir George Grey's house and garden possibly taken on same day at PA1-f-039, p11 and PA7-48-03. Same image at PA1-f-039, p 10. Inscriptions: Mount verso - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20.3 x 25.2 cm on card 26 x 34 cm

Date: 1913 - 1920

By: Jones, Ethel Susan, 1870-1952

Reference: A-082-007

Description: A brick mill tower with a house and gardens beyond it, a road in front The tower was demolished in 1922 suggesting that the scene predates 1922. The remains of the site were demolished in 1952. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - signature and part of title. Title continues lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 268 x 305 mm

Date: 1844

From: Ashworth, Edward 1814-1896 :Sketchbook [1844]

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: E-042-032

Description: A view of seven or eight houses and their gardens in central Auckland, with the harbour in the background. There are other houses in the distance. A group of Maori stands on a nearby hill to the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pen and sepia wash 135 x 216 mm Provenance: Purchased Sotheby's auction, London, 1966

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1982-F

Description: Panoramic view looking up at a large two-storeyed brick hospital building with a tiled roof. Gravel drive in the foreground. On the far left there is a gate with a label reading "Kiwi". Centre left on the lawn a statue of the Blessed Virgin faces the hospital. Herbaceous border on the near side of the drive, left and right, and there is a rockery border around the lawn in front of the building. A nun is leaning over the deep entrance porch flanked by two pillars, another balcony above. Fire escapes. Part of the building on the left is of a different design with arched windows, a decorative parapet and verandahs downstairs. Two cars are parked at the head of the drive on the far left of the buildings. Houses are visible amongst trees to the right of the hospital. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Mater Misericordiae Hospital. Mountain Road. Mt. Eden. Auckland. N.Z. No. 85 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 112.7 cm

Date: Between 1923 and 1928

From: Moore, Robert Percy, 1881-1948 :Panoramic photographs of New Zealand

Reference: Pan-1983-F

Description: Panoramic view looking across a wide driveway from the left which divides to go left in front of a two-storeyed wooden convent building with verandahs upstairs and downstairs on the left. On the right the drive leads towards large buildings partly hidden by trees. A large lawn with established trees, palms, cabbage trees, shrubs and flower beds on the left. Two women are seated on a garden seat in the centre middle distance. Another woman is walking in front of a building in the left middle distance. Large Norfolk pine in the right foreground. Photograph taken in the 1920s by Robert Percy Moore. Refer also Pan-1987 Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - Convent Sacred Heart. [No.] 84A. Victoria Avenue. Remuera. Auckland, N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Panoramic negative 24.4 x 131.1 cm