MAJOR ACCESSIONS OF ORIGINAL ART MATERIAL BETWEEN MAY 1969 AND JUNE 1971

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1 October 1971, Page 104

MAJOR ACCESSIONS OF ORIGINAL ART MATERIAL BETWEEN MAY 1969 AND JUNE 1971

This entry excludes paintings and sketches in the Webster collection which will be listed later; as well as sketches in manuscripts such as Captain T. B. Collinson’s autobiography. [ANGAS, George French] 1822-1886 Nene Hokianga [1844] Watercolour 30 cmx 22 cm. Original for plate 17 (Nene or Tamati Waka) in the New Zealanders Illustrated (1847). PURCHASE

—Women of the Ngati Toa Tribe. Porirua Cook’s Sfreights. August 1844. Watercolour 30 cm x 22 cm. Identified by artist as E Rua, E Pari, and E Hoki. Original for plate 13 in the New Zealanders Illustrated (1847). PURCHASE ARDEN, Henry Hamer 1845-1935 Two watercolours of New Plymouth. [lß6os] PURCHASE

ARTIST UNKNO WN [Massacre Bay, Nelson, 1843] Watercolour 76 cmx 55.5 cm PURCHASE ARTIST UNKNOWN La France Oil. 47 cm x 63 cm. donation: Mrs Sidet, Wellington. AUBREY, Christopher] [Battery buildings of the Woodstock goldmining company, at the junction of the Waitawheta Stream and Ohinemuri River] 1897. 37 cmx 53.5 cm. PURCHASE

BARRAUD, Charles Decimus 1832-1897 [The barracks, Napier] [ca 1866] Watercolour. 29.5 cmx 47 cm. donation : Miss E. M. D. Acland, Somerset, England. BARNES, Frank S S Hinemoa Oil. donation: Mrs E. L. Jackson, Wellington. [BARRAUD, William Francis] 1850-1926 Tokaano 1908 Watercolour. 26 cm x 36 cm. PURCHASE

BARRAUD, Charles Decimus 1832-1897 Three watercolours. [Maori woman in cloak] 1856 Te Rangihaeta 1856 [Bush Walk, Taita] 1856 PURCHASE [BOSCAWEN, Colonel —] Umurakau Pa, Te Whaite [1895] Watercolour. 15 cmx 26 cm. donation : Estate of Mrs Hume-Hogg, Hatuma. BLOMFIELD, Charles 1848-1926 Pink Terraces 1890 Oil on canvas. 43 cm X 58 cm. White Terraces 1888 Oil on canvas. 43 cm x 58 cm. donation : Estate of Mrs Hume-Hogg, Hatuma. BRIDGE, Colonel Cyprian 1808-crt 1883 Album of watercolours and pencil sketches. on indefinite loan from: Mrs J. Ihimaera, Wellington.

CAYLEY, Neville Henry Peniston 1853-1903 Eight watercolours of Australian birds [ca 1900] PURCHASE [CRAWFORD, James Coutts] 1817-1889 Fifty watercolour and pencil sketches of New Zealand subjects 1839-50. on loan from : Brigadier H. N. Crawford. DISTON,J. Swinton Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand [ca 1900?] Watercolour. 17 cmx 35 cm. donation: Mrs F. Hanson, Wellington. FOX, Sir William 1812-1893 Francis Joseph Glacier, Waikato River, Westland, New Zealand [1872] 25.5 cm x 42 cm. donation : Estate of Miss M. V. Mueller, Auckland. —Two watercolours of Wellington [lß4os]. PURCHASE

[FRANKLIN, Sir John or another (? Dr John Richardson) on same Arctic expeditions] 1786-1847 Carleton House from the East [lß2o] Black conte and white chalk on grey paper. 13 cm x 21 cm. Great Slave Lake S-W 1820

Black conte and white chalk on grey paper. 16.5 cmx 23.5 cm. [Rocky Mountains] [IB2O or 1826] Black conte and white chalk on grey paper. 19.5 cm x 22 cm.

Rockey Mountains, from Mackenzies River Pencil. 16 cmx 23.5 cm. [IB2O or 1826] [Eskimo canoes on lake] [IB2O or 1826] Pencil and watercolour. 16 cmx 24 cm. Part of the Upper Winnipeg falls (this in Sir John Franklin’s handwriting) [IB2O-1 or 1826] Pencil. 13.5 cmx 20.5 cm. [Mackenzies River?] [?iß26] Pencil. 13.5 cmx 20.5 cm. First view of the Rocky mounts from Mackenzie River [IB2O-1 or 1826] Pencil 15.5 cmx 22 cm. [Wooded islands and boat] Watercolour and pencil. 16 cm X 21 cm. provenance: Purchased with drawings by William Swainson from a descendant.

[GILFILLAN, John Alexander] 1793-1863 Te Rauparaha 1842 Pencil and wash. 20.5 cmx 16.5 cm.

PURCHASE [GOLD, Lt-Gen. Charles Emilius] 1803-1871 Thirty-four watercolour paintings. 1847-60 Collection includes ten Wellington landscapes; five Taranaki scenes, i 860; a number of studies of New Zealand bush and tree ferns; eight other landscape studies and an animated ‘Maori War Dance’. PURCHASE HUBBARD, Percy Orderly room NZAC 1883 Parihaka 1883 watercolour. 9.8 cmx 13.8 cm. donation: Mr J. N. Harrison, Takapau. [JACK, James Whitson] i86o?-i950 Rimutaka [ca 1885] Watercolour. 17.5 cmx 25 cm. donation: Mrs June Starke.

[KINDER, John] 1819-1903 Tongariro. January 3 1862 Watercolour. 25.5 cmx 35 cm. Unfinished sketch with pencil notes. PURCHASE [LIARDET, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn] 1799-1878 [The scene of the Wairau Massacre, at Tuamarina, Blenheim] [ca 1866] 30 cmx 48 cm. PURCHASE [MARTENS, Conrad] 1801-1878 Kororarika, Bay of Islands [1835]

Watercolour on grey paper. 19 cm x 29 cm. PURCHASE [Explorers(?) outside cave.] [lß4os] Coloured pencil and watercolour. 8.5 cmx 11 cm. Initialled CM 1.1. PURCHASE View of one of the Society Islands. Eimeo near Otaite. Pencil drawing. 15.7 cmx 24 cm. PURCHASE MINCHIN, R. E. [Lion Peak] Milford Sound, New Zealand Watercolour [ca 1890]. 35 cmx 25 cm. PURCHASE

OLIVER, Admiral Richard Aldworth 1811-1889 Eagle Tower Carnarvon. July 11 [18 ]46 Watercolour. 37 cmx 27 cm. donation: G. S. C. Oliver, England. SANDYS, E[dward] R[oper Stapleton] Ten charcoal drawings of New Zealand landscapes, [ca 1888?] Artist on HMS Opal in Russell 1887, in Auckland 1888.

[SMITH, Captain William Mein, ra] 1798-1869 Bush cleared from Underwood near Mr Petre’s Valley in the Hutt, N.Z. [lßsos] Watercolour. PURCHASE Three watercolours. [Dead tree] [ca 1850s?] 24 cmx 16.5 cm. Hutt Valley. Ist Gorge Looking South 1851 18 cm x 25 cm. [Fort Richmond and the Hutt Bridge] [ca 1850] 16 cm x 24 cm. donation: Miss Dorothy Tully STURTEVANT, G. N.

Four watercolours of Lyall Bay, Wellington Harbour and Auckland Harbour. donation : Estate of Ellen Mary Sturtevant. SWAINSON, Edith Stanway 1844-1903 Seven pencil drawings. Tree studies and scenes mainly about Manawatu and Rangitikei Rivers. One drawing: Taku Tuan Cottage. Port Phillip dated 31 August 18(5)8 has written on back ‘Copied from Papa. ESS.’ View in the Greenstone River, Otago [lß6os]. Unsigned but titled in

ESS’s hand. Oil on paper. PURCHASE [Landscape with Mountains and lake - ? South Island] [lß6os?] Oil on paper. 9 cmx 14 cm. Initialled ESS 1.1. PURCHASE SWAINSON, L[ucelle] Frances] 1842-? Fern Grove April 1857 Pencil. 17 cm x 22 cm.

PURCHASE SWAINSON, M[ary] 1826-1854 Kitchen at [ca 1844] Pencil. 12 cm x 22 cm. PURCHASE SWAINSON, William 1789-1855 Twelve Sicilian sketches. Pencil and sepia wash: ink and wash ‘Drawn with burnt paper’. [IBO7-15] PURCHASE

Two Sicilian drawings. Pencil. PURCHASE Cheri Bay. Zante [Zakinthos] 19 May 1812 Ink and wash. 17 cmx 32.5 cm. And two other drawings in similar style [Greece] Heathy . . . Grand water [lßl2]. Ink and wash. 17 cmx 30.5 cm. [Greece? Valley] [1812?] Pencil. 17 cmx 44.5 cm. PURCHASE

Bird Study n.d. Pencil drawing. 22 cmx 16 cm. PURCHASE Two colour lithographs of sea shells. 22 cmx 13 cm. [lß3os] PURCHASE

Five pencil drawings. Young Cabbage Tree; our Cows; Hawkeshead 1847 12 cm x 9.5 cm. Soft Leaved tree fern. Upper Hutt 1848 16 cmx 11 cm. Rhodes Farm, Porirua [ca 1845-50] 9 cm x 14 cm. Cave at Brown’s Point, Kapiti Is. 12 cmx 17.5 cm. Native Hutt, Kapiti Island 11 cm X 15.5 cm. PURCHASE

Thirteen pencil drawings of New Zealand subjects. 1845-54 One Australian drawing. Pencil on green paper. Teihatuan. P. Phillip 15 July ’53 Common wattle. 21 cm x 14 cm. PURCHASE

TYRRELL, A. E. Trentham Bathing Parade Bridge Oil. donation: Waikato Art Gallery, Hamilton. WAGEMAN, - ? [Portrait of William Swainson] 1839. Pencil. 25.5 cmx 20.5 cm. On back is written ‘My Father, William Swainson, the Naturalist at the age of 50 - Portrait by Wageman 1839.’ Signed E[dwin] Nfewcombe] Swainson’. PURCHASE

WILLIAMS, Lieut-Col. Edward Arthur ca 1824-1898 Three watercolours. Col. Wane's residence at New Plymouth 10 June ’65 12.5 cm x 34 cm. Auckland Harbor [1864?] 16.5 cm x 25 cm. Auckland, 2 August 64 12 cmx 25 cm. PURCHASE [unsigned] [Looking across Wanganui River to the town] [?iß6s] Watercolour. 18 cmx 33 cm. purchase