MAJOR ACCESSIONS OF ORIGINAL ART MATERIAL JULY 1971-JUNE 1973

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 6, Issue 2, 1 October 1973, Page 21

MAJOR ACCESSIONS OF ORIGINAL ART MATERIAL JULY 1971-JUNE 1973

The following list continues Art Accessions in the Record for October 1971. Dimensions give height before width. Quotations indicate titles written by artist.

ARTIST UNKNOWN [Armed Constabulary, Galatea] [ca 1886] Watercolour 9.5 X 15 cm. donation: Mrs A. S. Waters, Waipukurau, 1972. [Arrival of the ‘London’] [1842] Watercolour 19.5 X 24 cm. purchase 1973. [Battle Scene in Maori Wars] [1846?] Oil on card 29 X 46.5 cm. purchase 1972. Renata Kawepo [ca 1860] Pencil 18.3 X 11.2 cm. PURCHASE 3.3.73.

ANGAS, George French, 1822-1886 ‘Motupoi Pah with Tongariro’ 1844 Watercolour 28.8 X 32.4 cm. ‘On the Waikato at Kapou, 30 Sept. 1844’ Watercolour 15.3 X 22 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 30.3.73. ARMITAGE, Charles Edward, 1869?-1954 [Gisborne] [ca 1890s] Watercolour 17 X 24 cm. purchase 3.11.72.

AUBREY, C. fl. 1870-1910 ‘lsland Bay’ [ca 1900] Watercolour 18 X 27.5 cm. purchase 1972. BABINGTON, Thomas ‘Sterndale’, Totara Valley [ca 186-] Watercolour donation: Mr K. J. Ray, Te Marua 26.6.72. BARON, Ardrie del: ‘Kivi-Kivi (Apterix)’ Hand coloured engraving 14.6 X 21.4 cm. purchase 29.11.72.

BARRAUD, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 Album containing 12 watercolours. Page size 22.5 X 18 cm. purchase 19.4.73. ‘Otira Gorge, West Coast showing Mt Alexander. Deer 1874’ Watercolour 24.4 X 35.2 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, December 1971.

BARRAUD, Francis Phillip, 1824-1900 ‘Worcester’ Chromolithograph 12.8 X 19 cm. purchase 20.10.72. ‘Worcester’ Watercolour 15.3 X 25.7 cm. purchase 29.11.72. BARRAUD, William Francis, 1840-1926 ‘Junction of Hawea and Clutha at Alberton Near Wanaka’, 28 Jan. 1875. Watercolour 23.5 X 30.5 cm. purchase 1972.

BARTLEET, Ellen Wintrup, 1896-1973 13 Watercolours of Wellington. donation: Mrs R. B. Bartleet, Parnell, Auckland, September 1972. BEETHAM, Richmond, 1836-1912 The Roman Catholic Mission, Apia. Oil 46 X 76 cm. purchase 25.8.72. BENNIE, James ‘Dobson School’ 1887. Watercolour and ink 21 X 24 cm. purchase 25.8.72.

BREES, Samuel Charles, 1820-1865 ‘Aglionby Arms’ [ca 1843] Watercolour with varnish 20.2 X 28.2 cm. purchase 1972. BUHLER, Robert Portrait of Rex Nan Kivell, C.M.G., 1969. Pastel 51.5 X 40 cm. donation: Mr Rex deC. Nan Kivell, London, 1973. CHESNEY, F. ‘Nouveau Zealand, Port de Nicholson aupres de la capital’ [ca 1865].

Watercolour 19.5 X 28.4 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, 20.3.73. CHING, Raymond, 1946The Huia: male and female 1971. Photo lithographs 43 X 33 cm. purchase 1972. COTMAN, John Sell, 1782-1842 ‘North Wales’ Soft ground etching 7.5 X 11.3 cm. donation 12.3.73. CROWE, H. G. ‘North Valley, Dunedin, with old mill, 1863’ Oil on canvas 39 X 49 cm. purchase 1972.

DOMETT, Arthur, 1811-1887 Captain John Domett [ca 1839] Pencil 9.5 X 7 cm. purchase: Webster Coll., 1970. Church Hill, Trafalgar Square, Nelson N.Z. [ca 1850] Pencil 11.8 X 24.7 cm. ‘Scene up the Wairoa . . . South Waimea, Nelson, March Ist 1844’. Pencil 19.7 X 23.7 cm. purchase: Mr Oliver Welsh, London, 1972. EATON, Ben Bolton Street Cemetery [ 193-] Sepia and wash 24 X 24.5 cm. purchase 1971.

FIELD, Isabel Jane (Hodgkins), 1867-1930 ‘Journal of the 1886 Manapouri-Te Anau Excursion’ 110 pages. Pencil drawings. Two watercolours. donation: Major W. N. Pharazyn, Wellington. ‘Waikanae’ [ca 1895] Watercolour 23.5 X 33.5 cm. FODOR, George F. Champion Cows and Bulls [lB7-?] Oil 49 X 73.5 cm. FORBES, C. S. ‘View of Auckland, New Zealand 1843’ Pencil 33 X 54.7 cm.

FRASER, J. B. fl. 1860 s ‘Between Cashels Station and Shortland . . .’ [1869] Watercolour 15.4 X 24.3 cm. ‘Ohinemuri: 50 miles from the Thames Goldfields . . .’ 1869 Watercolour 12.2 X 24.8 cm. FROST, J. ‘Brothers’ Lighthouse’ 1877 Watercolour 21 X 41 cm. purchase 24.4.72.

GOULDSMITH, Edmund, 1852-1932 ‘Tauranga’ 1886 Watercolour 27 X 36.7 cm. purchase 30.11.72. GORE, Henry Morland, 1863?-1930 ‘Looking across Hutt River to All Saints Church, Taita’ 1894. Oil on canvas 49 X 82.5 cm. purchase 23.3.73. GREENWOOD, Sarah (Field), 1809-1889 Three pencil copies of original paintings, 1827, and accompanying medals. donation: Miss Rosemary Greenwood, Havelock North, 22.5.72.

[HALGOMBE, Edith Stanway (Swainson)] 1844-1903 [Campfire under tree fern] Watercolour 9.8 X 16 cm. [Maori outside whare beside lake] Watercolour 11 X 17.4 cm. ‘Mountain brook nr Cape Palliser’ Watercolour 13.3 X 16.5 cm. [Maori hut and figure beside river] Watercolour 16 X 25 cm.

HARLAND, J. S. ‘Maoris going to market’ 1861 Watercolour 6.5 X 21 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 30.3.73. HATTON, W. S. ‘Auckland, New Zealand IB6o’ Watercolour 27.5 X 36.6 cm. ‘Auckland Harbour’ [ca 1858] Watercolour 19 X 37.5 cm.

Mount Egmont, New Plymouth [ca 1859] Watercolour 26.4 X 36.6 cm. ‘Natural Breakwater and Harbour, Nelson 1859’ Watercolour ‘Panmure Bridge, Auckland 1859’ Watercolour 18.2 X 37.5 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 20.3.73. HEAPHY, Charles, 1820-1881 ‘The 24th Regiment at Quatre Bras . . .’ Sepia ink 16.5 X 22 cm. purchase 7.3.1973.

HETLEY, Georgina Barnes fl. 1860-1890 ‘Bell Block Stockade, New Plymouth’ [ca 1870] Watercolour 22.7 X 33.6 cm. purchase: John Maggs, London, 1972. HIGGS, Sydney ‘Old Custom House St. Wellington’ [ca 1930] Watercolour 20 X 15 cm. purchase 12.7.72.

[HILLIARD, George] fl. first half 19th C. ‘Lady Nugent on the high Seas 1840’ ‘Lady Nugent Sailing into Harbour entrance’ [lß4l] ‘My New Zealand Cottage’ 1840 ‘Groundplan for a house in Wellington’ 1840 ‘New Zealand flax plant’ [1841?] ‘Mountain profile from the sea —Bonavista Island’ [lß4o] [Pipitea Pa] 1841 [Panorama of Port Nicholson, 1841] ‘Wellington Cliffs from sea’ ca 1841 ‘Wellington. Plan of Baker’s Shop in Dickson St. 1841’ [Wellington. Waterfront, 1841]

HODGES, William, 1744-1797 ‘Tanna’ Red chalk 55 X 37.5 cm. purchase: Christie’s, London, 19.3.73. HODGKINS, Frances, 1869-1947 [Portrait of (?) William Hodgkins] [ca 189-s] Watercolour 38 X 28 cm. purchase 3.11.72.

HOGAN, Patrick Joseph, 1805-1878 7 lithographs of Auckland, Nos 1,2, 3 and 4. [ca 1852] purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 1971. HOYTE, John Barr Clarke, 1835-1915 ‘Gold diggings on the Thames’ Watercolour 31 X 53.5 cm. purchase 14.7.72. [Auckland Harbour from above Hobson’s Bay] 1869 Watercolour 46 X 32 cm. purchase: Mrs E. D. Pullon, England, 25.2.73.

HUDDLESTONE, W. ‘Native Flowers of New Zealand’ 1899 Chromolithograph 59.2 X 81 cm. purchase 14.7.72. HUTTON, Thomas Biddulph, fl. 1844-58 The Waimate, New Zealand [lßso] Two ink drawings on cards 9X12 cm. and 11X13 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 30.3.73.

KENDALL, E. N. ‘View of the Pendulum Station at Port Cook Island, 30 November 1828’ Watercolour 14.8 X 23.4 cm. ‘Pendulum Station at St Martin’s Cove, Hermite Island near Cape Horn’ 15 May 1829. Watercolour 15.6 X 22.8 cm. purchase: Christies, London, 19.3.73.

LANE, B. J., fl. 187‘Auckland Islands’, 31 Dec. 1878 Watercolour 47.3 X 33.3 cm. purchase 30.11.72. LAWSON, R. I. Architectural Plans: Lunatic Asylum, Seacliff Drawings 65 X 9.7 cm. donation: Mr Fergus G. F. Sheppard, Wellington.

LOWE, John Henry, 1841-1928 25 views of Nelson and the West Coast copied from sketchbook owned by Mrs Joy Gorton, Liverpool. donation: Mr R. C. Lowe, Mahina Bay, 1972. McCORMACK, Thomas Arthur, 1883-1973 ‘Government Buildings, Wellington’ [193-?]

Drypoint etching 16.5 X 13 cm. purchase 3.2.72. McDIARMID, Douglas, 1922‘Thomdon’ ca 1942 Oil 35.5 X 25 cm. PURCHASE 21.3.71.

MANSFIELD, Katherine, 1888-1923 Associations and Curiosa MARTENS, Conrad, 1801-1878 Kororarika, Bay of Islands [1835] Pencil and watercolour on grey paper 19 X 28 cm. purchase: Christies, Australia, 1972.

MARTIN, Albin, 1813-1888 [Auckland Farmyard] [ca 1855] Oil on canvas-backed paper 11 X 22.3 cm. ‘Auckland, looking over the Harbour to the North Shore’ ca 1855. Oil on canvas-backed paper 14.2 X 32.8 cm. ‘East Taranaki, N.Z.’ [ca 1855] Oil on card 20 X 33.5 cm. [Mount Aetna from the Sea] ca 1850 Watercolour 9.4 X 20 cm. ‘Mount Wellington. View from the 50 acres which I have lately bought’ [ca 1855]

Oil on paper 9.7 X 19.5 cm. [Otara Creek?—Tamaki] ca 1855 Oil on paper 16.3 X 9.8 cm. [Tamaki] ca 1856 Oil on card 14 x 25 cm. ‘View from near Howick looking down our creek . . .’ [ca 1855] Oil on paper 19.5 X 33.2 cm. [View from top of Bombay Hills] ca 1855 Watercolour 14 X 10.5 cm. ‘View in the Forest’ [ca 1850] Oil on paper 21.2 X 15.7 cm. ‘View from the Otahuhu road looking towards Onehunga, New Zealand’

[ca 1855] Oil on paper 19 X 26.2 cm. ‘Vico, Naples’ [ca 1845] Watercolour 11.2 X 21.5 cm.

Also five ink and wash or chalk studies of trees [ 184- ?] purchase: London, 7.11.1972. MINHINNICK, Gordon Edward George, 1902Ten original drawings for N.Z. Herald cartoons. Ink 29 X 33 cm. purchase: 6.11.72.

MUSIL, George Rothsay State School near Benalla, Victoria. Copy of original pencil and wash drawing by Mary Brown [ca 1880] of school which Michael Joseph Savage attended 1877-86. donation: Mrs Eileen M. Brown, Albury, N.S.W., 7.9.72. [NAIRN, Frank] fl. 1845-1876 Self-portrait Charcoal 59 X 45 cm. purchase 13.4.73.

[NERLI, Girolamo Ballati] 1863-1926 ‘Portrait of old Dr Stuart of Knox Church, Dunedin’ [ca 1890] purchase 12.7.72. OLIVER, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889 [Group of Maoris by river] [lßso] Watercolour 25.5 X 34 cm. ‘New Zealand Aborigines: Jekakeke and Jouahoolou’ 1850 Watercolour 24 X 33 cm. ‘New Zealand Aborigines: Akaroa’ Watercolour 35.5 X 25.5 cm. ‘New Zealand Bay de Islde’ Sept. 1850 Watercolour 26.5 X 37 cm.

[Te Rangihaeata and family outside whare] [lßso] Watercolour 26.5 X 37.5 cm. ‘Rimu Akaroa Dec. 10th 1850’ Watercolour 37 X 23.5 cm. ‘Wangari Sept. 21st 1850’ Watercolour 27 X 37 cm. [Waterfall and Treefems] [lßso] Watercolour 34 X 22 cm. And 10 watercolours of subjects in Wales, England, Madeira, Italy and Constantinople. purchase: Mr R. D. Oliver, Nottingham, 30.3.73. PEDRO, F. dal ‘Death of Captain Cock’ [sic]

Engraving 30 X 42 cm. purchase 1972. PRUDEN, G. E. Manawatu Gorge [ 189-] Oil 91 X 98 cm. purchase 27.4.73.

RICHMOND, James Crowe, 1822-1898 ‘Three Trees, Feb. ’7o’ Pencil 14 X 8.5 cm. ‘White Isd, 19 June 1868’ Pencil 9.5 X 26 cm. ‘Kawau’ Dec. 3 [lB6-] Pencil 9 X 26 cm. ‘Kawau. The Mine’ [lB6-] Pencil 9.5 X 32.5 cm. ‘Kawau Island. Pohutukawa’ [lB6-] Pencil 8.5 X 11 cm. ‘Ohinemuri. Thames’ Pencil 9 X 16.5 cm.

‘Ruins of old Spanish fortification. West Algeria’ 1876 Pencil 15 X 22 cm. [Rafter Patterns] from Arawa Accommodation House, Roto-iti, 1869 Pencil 19 X 17.5 cm. Trees Pencil 21 X 29 cm. [Lake Tennyson and Spencer Mountains] [1869] Watercolour 17.5 X 27 cm.

Cook’s Strait from beach near Karori —Wellington, Aug. 1869 Pencil 12 X 26 cm. ‘Cook’s Cove Jan. 22nd 1869’ Pencil 9 x 16.5 cm. Napier Bluff, Jan. 28th 1869 Pencil 9 X 16.5 cm. ‘L. Wanaka . . . from the township of Pembroke’ [1882?] Pencil 22 X 31 cm. Turanganui, 25 Jan. 1869 Pencil 9 X 16 cm.

“St Kilda” and “Whanganui” in fog and tide-rip, ‘Cook’s Strait, Feb, Ist 1869’ Pencil 17 X 25.5 cm. [Beach near Makara] [1869?]

Watercolour 30.5 X 23.5 cm. ‘Kaikoura in the Village’ [ca 1880] Watercolour 37 X 54.5 cm. ‘Mount Garganus. Mt Neaves Rakaia’ [ca 1880?] Pencil 30.5 X 49.7 cm. Mouth and lagoon Wairau River Watercolour 24 X 35 cm. [Nelson?] [lB6-] Watercolour 19 X 33 cm. Puzzuoli [lßß9] Watercolour 31 X 49 cm. Riwaka [ca 187-] Watercolour 55 X 39.5 cm. Slate River [ca 187-] Watercolour 25 X 35.5 cm. ‘Valley of Waimakariri above the R. Bealey, 1882’ Watercolour 25.5 X 54 cm. Waimea, Nelson, from Port Hills [lB7-?] Watercolour 23.5 X 50.5 cm. donation: Mrs E. H. Atkinson and family, York Bay, 16.5.73.

ROBLEY, Horatio Gordon, 1840-1930 ‘Carvings on a Huia Box that belonged to the Revd Mr Volkner [1865] Watercolour 44.5 X 29 cm. purchase 1972. ‘Return of Hongi’ [ca 1865] Gouache 18 X 34 cm. purchase 3.11.72. [Portrait of Maori with dogskin mat] [ca 1865] Oil on board 22.2 X 18.2 cm. purchase: Sotheby’s, London, 30.3.73.

[SCARF, George] 1788-1860 Portrait of John Rutherford [ca 1830] Oil 19 X 14 cm. purchase: E. M. Lawson & Co., England.

SELWYN, George Augustus, 1809-1878 Three conte drawings on grey paper of Tonga Tabu [lß4B] purchase : Webster Collection.

SELWYN, William, 1775-1855 Two conte and white chalk drawings, 1831. purchase: Webster Collection. STACK, Frederick Rice ‘View of Auckland Harbour, New Zealand, taken during the Regatta of Jan. 1862’ Lithograph 20 X 40.5 cm. ‘View of Auckland, New Zealand, from the crater of Mt Eden’ [1862] Lithograph 20 X 41.3 cm.

STODDART, Margaret Olrog, 1865-1934 [Worser Bay, Wellington] [192-?] Watercolour 24 X 32.5 cm. purchase 3.11.72. SWAINSON, George Frederick, 1829-1870 ‘Young Maori Girl’ Chalk and watercolour 32 X 21.5 cm. purchase 30.11.72.

SWAINSON, William, 1789-1855 ‘Great Black Fern, Lower Hutt’ [ca 1845] Pencil 17.5 X 11.5 cm. ‘Head of the Lardaria Valley. Near Messina’ [ca 1820] Pencil 22.2 X 15.1 cm. PURCHASE 30.11.72. ‘Nobby Island, Newcastle, N.S. Wales’ [1845] Pencil 12 X 19 cm. ‘Many-branched Pine’ 1845 Pencil and conte 15.7 X 22.7 cm. purchase 1972.

TAYLOR, Ernest Mervyn, 1906-1964 Te Kotuku Rerenga Tahi Wood engraving 17.7 X 14 cm. Maui Taming the Sun Wood engraving 11 X 14.5 cm. Creation of Hineahume Wood engraving 18.5 X 23 cm. purchase 30.11.72. TEMPSKY, von, Gustavus Ferdinand, 1828-1868 [Expedition, South America] [ca 1855] Ink and watercolour 11.5 X 18.5 cm.

‘Gambler from life’ [ca 1855] Brown ink 15 X 9.7 cm. ‘Prinz Awala River 13 August 1856’ Pencil 17 X 31 cm. purchase: Webster Collection, May 1970.

THOMSON, N. Christchurch Cathedral Square, 1917 Watercolour 32 X 16 cm. purchase 5.3.72. TINGEY, L. R. [Patent Slip, Evans Bay] [ 191 -] Oil 24 X 35 cm. purchase 25.8.72.

VELDEN, Petrus van der, 1834-1913 [Life study of lands: Canal and windmills] Pencil 31 X 51 cm. donation : Mr E. C. Simpson, Upper Hutt, 27.3.72. WATKIN, Len ‘Customs House, Wellington’ [l9l-?] Watercolour 44 X 34 cm. purchase 3.11.72.

WILLIAMS, Edward Arthur, See separate note [WILLIAMS, Samuel], 1822-1907 [Maoris in a hot pool] [ca 1835] Pencil 20.7 X 31 cm. [Corner at Ti Beach] [ca 1835] Watercolour 12 X 20 cm. donation: The Rt Rev. A. K. Warren, Christchurch, September 1972.

WOLLASTON,— Two small portrait drawings of John Pearse Pencil 8 X 13.5 cm. [lB5-] donation: Miss B. Pearse, Paris, 1972. WORSLEY, Charles Nathaniel,? —1923 ‘Harbour Scene’ Gisborne [ca 1915] Watercolour 29 X 50 cm. purchase 14.7.72.