Waterfalls - New Zealand - Canterbury Region

Date: 1862

Reference: A-219-008

Description: Shows a waterfall between cliffs, 'Ferguson's River' joining the River Townsend (Townshend). The Wharfdale area was in Canterbury near Oxford, connected with gold prospecting. Inscriptions: Signed: Wm.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 220 x 290 mm Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts section, from 'McEnnis, 1937' [not traced], 12 April 1978.

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010-b

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: 1868

From: Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :[Collection of sketches] ca 1860-ca 1895

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: A-182-084

Description: A high narrow waterfall dropping down a bushed valley, with bare hills on either side The artist is known to have visited Akaroa in 1868 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 260 x 175 mm

Date: [1880s]

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

By: Coxhead, Frank Arnold, 1851-1908

Reference: PA7-42-24

Description: View of the falls taken by F A Coxhead Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Devils Punch Bowl, Hokitika Road Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print 19.5 x 14.5 cm on mount

Reference: PA7-33-15

Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) mounted on card.

Date: 1875 - 1972

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-005

Description: A waterfall at Arthur's Pass Reproduced by courtesy of the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithographs 530 x 355 mm on sheet 630 x 515 mm

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010-a

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: 1867-1868

From: Cooke, I V :Photographs of New Zealand and Australia

By: Mundy, Daniel Louis, 1826-1881

Reference: PA1-f-045

Description: Photographs taken in 1867 and 1868 by Daniel Louis Mundy. Collection comprises: moa skeletons on display in the Canterbury Museum, Maori man sitting in front of a flax plant in the Hokianga, a black pine forest in Westland, miners' whares at Tararu creek in the Thames goldfield, Punch Bowl Falls, Otira Gorge, fern trees at Governor's Bay, waterfall at Waihi at the head of lake Taupo, tramway at Moanataiari in the Thames goldfield, bush at German Bay (Akaroa), Waitohi creek in the Thames goldfield, Onoke (Hokianga), kauri forest at Wairere Stream (Hokianga), Wild Missouri and Russell's batteries at Tararu Creek, waterfalls at Banks Peninsula and Otira Gorge. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album bound in green morrocco, with gold tooling, 41.2 x 30.2 cm

Date: ca 1860s-1870s

Reference: PAColl-4553

Description: Twelve photographs from the same series: Roto Kanapanapa or Boiling Mud Lakes; Otukapuerangi or Pink Terraces (front and side views); Rotomahana or Hot Lakes; cascade in the bush, Canterbury; Punsh (sic) Bowl Falls, Westland; footbridge over the Avon, Christchurch; East Town Belt footbridge, Christchurch; Missouri Gold Battery, Aukland (sic); Provincial Council Chamber, Christchurch (back view); birds-eye view of the Provincial Government Building, Christchurch; and Russell, Bay of Islands. Captions taken from the photographs. Photographer unidentified but probably the Burton Bros. Quantity: 12 b&w original photographic print(s). Processing information: According to the Donations Book there were 40 photographs in the accession so others have yet to be located.

Date: 1875 - 1972

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-005-a

Description: A waterfall at Arthur's Pass Reproduced by courtesy of the Auckland City Art Gallery Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 530 x 355 mm on sheet 630 x 515 mm

Date: [ca 1895-1915]

Reference: PAColl-6904

Description: A large collection of miscellaneous original and copy negatives mostly of Christchurch and the surrounding area. Some are studio portraits of family groups. The rest of the collection includes: a street scene in front of the old railway station; a cycling race; men rowing and canoeing; children playing in a swing park; a brass band playing on board a steamer; various beach scenes including donkey rides; train pulling into Kaiapoi station; a small bach; two girls next to a waterfall; trams and a cyclist going past the Jubliee Clock Tower; the front facade of St Paul's Presbyterian Church; three views of the old Public Hospital next to Hagley Park; the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of Oxford Terrace and Worcester Street; a copy negative of a carte de visite of a couple kissing; a monument incorporating a tiki on a tall pole and other maori carvings (location unknown); a man at the doorway of his shed with an array of gardening implements; two men pulling a covering back from a hangi pit; the cathedral with a number of trams in front; a tram advertising Ballantynes; a kitchen interior showing a range with kettles on top and a cupboard and dresser with crockery; six Maori on horseback possibly in a procession; a porter bringing a cart of luggage up to a train; five men giving friends piggy backs on the beach; sheep being driven past stock yards; the Avon River; a crowd outside the Avon Rowing Club; Wilson the maltman's horse and cart crossing a bridge; and two images of a harvest festival in a hall with a painted back drop and sheaves of corn arranged in front of it. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-045133 to 045196 and 045802 to 045816 Quantity: 76 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass ¼ plate negatives Processing information: These were originally part of a sequence of unidentified negatives. They were assumed to form a collection due to the similarity in date and location. At the time of entry 1/4-045190 was missing.

Date: 1972 - 1905

By: Wilson, Laurence William, 1851-1912; Capper Press (Christchurch, N.Z.)

Reference: C-085-010

Description: A view of the Bealey River looking towards the Southern Alps. In the left foreground, a road winds around a cliff, a small waterfall crossing the road. A man on horseback is droving sheep around a corner. Reproduction of an original oil painting in the Robert McDougall Art Gallery (Christchurch Art Gallery) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 375 x 534 mm on sheet 516 x 628 mm

Date: 1947

From: Forbes, Josephine K, 1917-2005 :[John Lysaght Moore and Sophie Augusta Moore art works].

Reference: E-723-019

Description: A view of the Devil's Punchbowl falls from below Other Titles - Devil's Punchbowl Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, each 215 x 170 mm.

Date: [Circa 1920s]

From: Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957 :Albums of the Southern Alps

By: Driver, H (Mrs), active 1977; Sutton-Turner, Arthur Seymour, 1879?-1957

Reference: PA1-f-073

Description: Album of photographs taken by mountaineer and photographer Arthur Sutton-Turner, all related to the Southern Alps and all with good captions. People climbing with Sutton-Turner include Jack Lippe and T A Fletcher. A number of images relate to their journey towards the mountains, stopping at two sheep stations, the Richmond Station at Lake Tekapo, and Lilybank Station. At Lilybank, Sutton-Turner took a number of photographs of sheep being mustered from the High Country ready for shearing, and finally trucks being loaded with wool bales for sale in Fairlie. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with brown hessian cover; 29 x 43 cm

From: Sandys, Edward Roper Stapleton, b 1845 :[Seven charcoal drawings of New Zealand, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. ca 1888-1889]

Reference: C-169-008

Description: Shows three young women by a waterfall at Akaroa. Two of them are sitting on rocks at the base of the fall; the other is standing Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - E Sandys [in charcoal]; Verso - top left - Waterfall, Akaroa, NZ [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal on paper, 485 x 635 mm Provenance: Previously in a private collection belonging to descendants of the artist

Date: 1868 - 1870

From: Hurt, Theodore Octavius, 1839-1932 :[New Zealand views; sketchbook. 1865-1869].

Reference: E-501-f-041

Description: Shows waterfall seen through vegetation. Probably painted around the end of the 1860s. The artist is known to have been in the vicinity after the wreck of the ketch (probably the "Crest") in 1868 - his picture of Akaroa Heads is dated 1869. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (On separate label): [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Watercolour, 150 x 116 mm. Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's, London, to a private buyer, in 1982.

Date: 1862

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888; Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)

Reference: C-096-006

Description: Twin waterfalls at the terminal face of a glacier, in the valley of the River Macaulay, rocky foreground, the Southern Alps behind. An exploring party is traversing the valley floor. Illustration for lecture, Notes on the mountains and glaciers of the Canterbury Province, New Zealand, delivered by J. Haast, 1864 Based on a drawing by Julius von Haast. The exploring party is likely to be Haast's group, since they were the first Europeans to explore this area. Inscriptions: Recto - J. Gully; Mount recto - [title and] Mount Forbes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 593 x 470 mm

Date: 1866

By: Chevalier, Nicholas, 1828-1902; Laing, Elizabeth, [1862?]-1950

Reference: A-102-017

Description: Looking up the valley towards the dividing range and the pass, with a high waterfall on the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 178 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-002

Description: A waterfall in a crevasse, surrounded by flax, cabbage trees and grassland, with part of a fence visible in the middle ground to the right. A pukeko is running past in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 245 x 170 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1862

From: Haast family: Collection

Reference: C-097-065

Description: An extensive view of mountains, with two waterfalls descending a sheer drop below a glacier. Source image for John Gully's watercolour of the same title (C-096-006). Reproduced in: Paul, Janet. "Twelve water colours of glaciers in the Province of Canterbury", 'Turnbull Library Record, volume 7, issue 2, October 1974, page 28. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour on 2 sheets of wove paper glued at centre 165 x 320 mm