THE TURNBULL LIBRARY PRINTS

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 October 1973, Page 64

THE TURNBULL LIBRARY PRINTS

The Angas Prints, 1973 —details overleaf The Mein Smith Prints, 1972 graphical and descriptive notes; $lO the set of 3, in folder illustrated in colour (for details, see below). Friends of the Turnbull Library are granted 10% discount, making the price to them $9.00 the set, or SI.BO for single prints. Five watercolours by Captain William Mein Smith, Royal Artillery (first SurveyorGeneral to the New Zealand Company) are reproduced in colour as three prints, two of which carry two pictures: 1 Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge, ca. 1847 (coloured surface 6J x 9£ inches) WITH Hutt River, near Taita, 1851 (coloured surface 7 x 9J inches) 2 A Road through Bush (coloured surface 13f x 9 inches) 3 ‘A Wet Day. July 1853’ [on the Huangarua River, Wairarapa] (coloured surface 7J x 10J inches) WITH Cliffs between Te Kopu and Whatarangi, Palliser Bay (coloured surface 7 x 10 inches) The edition is restricted to 2,500 hand-numbered sets. Each set is supplied in a folder illustrated in full colour with the Te Aro and Thorndon portions of the 3-part 1842 Wellington panorama engraved after Mein Smith in Illustrations to Jerningham Wakefield’s ‘Adventure in New Zealand.’ Similar to the Heaphy views, the folder illustrations each measure 9J x 1 7\ inches and constitute two further prints which may be framed. Note: Stocks are exhausted of The Queen’s Prints (Heaphy’s Thorndon, Te Aro and Nelson views); The Heaphy 1964 Prints (Hokianga, Egmont and Chatham Islands) ; The Barraud Wellington 1861 view; and the Jubilee Print of von Tempsky’s watercolour of the attack on Te Putahi Pa.

PRINTS STILL AVAILABLE ARE: The Fox Prints. 3 at $2.00 each, with descriptive leaflet. Stocks limited. The Fox Portfolio. 6 others at $3.00 each; or SIO.OO the set with descriptive text-sheet and brochure by Dr E. H. McCormick, in folder illustrated in colour. The Barraud Prints. 2 at $2.00 each, or sold as a pair with descriptive leaflet in folder illustrated in black and white with Barraud’s view of Wellington, 1861 (the third colour print, now sold out). Stocks limited. The Emily Harris N.Z. Flower Prints. 3 at $2.00 each; the set in illus. folder. The Maplestone Prints. 3 at $2.00 each; the set supplied in illustrated folder. The Cyprian Bridge Prints. 2 at $2.00 each; the pair in illustrated folder. Prints of the Thermal Regions. 3 at $3.00 each; the set at SB.OO in folder illustrated in colour. The paintings are by C. D. Barraud and Charles Blomfield.

10% DISCOUNT IS OFFERED THE FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY ON ALL PRINTS. ALL THE ABOVE PUBLICATIONS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY, BOX 8016, WELLINGTON. AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF PRINTS, BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, CATALOGUES, GREETING CARDS AND COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES PUBLISHED BY THE ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY AND THE FRIENDS OF THE TURNBULL LIBRARY IS AVAILABLE ON REQUEST.

Printed by Wright & Carman Limited, Trentham