Notes on Art Accessions

Turnbull Library Record, Volume XIII, Issue 2, 1 October 1980, Page 124

Notes on Art Accessions

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JUNE 1979 TO MAY 1980

Acquisitions of art pieces are listed selectively in the Turnbull Library Record to alert scholars to newly acquired material judged to be of research value. The following list updates the 'Notes on Art Accessions' in the Record for October 1979. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photo-mechani-cal prints recently published are excluded.

ARTIST UNKNOWN. Bello guerriero dei Nuovi Zelandesi [Venice? 18 —?] Engraving (hand-col.) 14 X 20cm. PURCHASE. Genera avium Psittaci. Fam. Nestridae . . . [n.p., 18 —] Col. lith. 33 x 25cm. PURCHASE. Homme de la Nile Zelande [Paris? ca.lßos] Lith. (hand-col.) 14 X 9cm. PURCHASE. Lake Taupo 1250 feet above the sea level . . . Auckland, Star Litho, 1890. Col. lith. 31 X 49cm. PURCHASE. Mantell's apteryx. Apteryx Mantelli [London? ca.1875] Col. lith. 25 X 35cm. PURCHASE. New Zealand National Party publicity material. 1960, 1963. 17 ink drawings various sizes. DONATION: N.Z. National Party, Wellington. [Otago, or Attago, a chief at Amsterdam, ca.1785] Copper plate engraving (hand-col.) 28 X 20cm. PURCHASE. Ricevimento fatto da un Capo della Nuova Zelanda [Venice? 18 —] Engraving (hand-col.) 14 X 20cm. PURCHASE. S. 5. Huia aground [19 —] Oil 45 x 65cm. PURCHASE.

[Waitotara settlement, ca.lß7o] Watercolour 25 X 35cm. PURCHASE. ANDERSON, R. N. [Queen's Wharf, Wellington. 188-] Watercolour 77 X 122 cm. PURCHASE. [BARRAUD, CHARLES DECIMUS] 1822-1897. Tarawera Lake [lB7-] Watercolour 26 X 36cm. PURCHASE. CASELBERG, anna MARGARET F. A poet reading [Denis Glover]. 1976. Oil on hardboard 65 X 41cm. PURCHASE. CHERRY, ARTHUR L. New Zealand sketches [l9l-?] 9 etchings each 17 x 12cm. PURCHASE. DEVILLIER. Nouvelle Zelande. Ceremonie de baptemc [lB4-?] Engraving (hand-col.) 16 X 25cm. PURCHASE.

HIGGS, SYDNEY HAMLET, 1884-1978. 8 watercolours various sizes. Include views of Bowen Street, Farish Street, Lambton Quay, Pumpkin Cottage, Sherry Valley, Nelson and Trentham Camp, 1918-ca.1940. PURCHASE. HIMELY, SIGISMOND, 1801-1872. Plage de Korora-reka (Nouvelle Zelande) [Paris, Bertrand, 1835] Tinted lith. 29 x 38cm. PURCHASE.

EISE, IDA GERTRUDE, 1894-1978. Grey day, eastern beach [ca.l94o] Oil on hardboard 35 x 42.5 cm. PURCHASE. FANNING, JOAN. [John Cawte Beaglehole. 1954] Oil 60 X 50cm. PURCHASE. GULLY, JOHN, 1819-1888. [Mountain railway over the Rimutaka Range] 1880. Watercolour 36 X 30cm. PURCHASE. IVISON, THOMAS. Sketchbook aboard Louisa Campbell to New Zealand, 1846-1847. 29 pencil sketches in album 11 X 14cm. Sketches include convict ship Tory, Bay of Islands, Hauraki Gulf, coastal profiles of Bass Strait. Notes describe visit to Great Barrier Island, including yard of John Gillies, shipbuilder. Louisa Campbell was wrecked at Cape Farewell, 11 May 1847. PURCHASE.

LLOYD, TREVOR, 1863-1937. [Original drawings for cartoons, ca.1900-ca.1934] 84 chiefly ink, some watercolour various sizes. An important collection reflecting social and political attitudes of the period. PURCHASE. LYNDON, EDWARD. Mount Alford, Canterbury [lB6-?] Watercolour 26 X 36cm. PURCHASE. [MANTELL, WALTER BALDOCK DURRANT] 1820-1898. Akaroa, 1849. Ink 14 x 24cm. Shows Bruce's Hotel. PURCHASE. PAUL, JOANNA MARGARET, b. 1945. Portrait of a blind writer [O. E. Middleton] [1979] Acrylic on cardboard 61 X 61 cm. Together with one watercolour and two pencil preliminary sketches. PURCHASE.

Ruth Dallas [1979] 1 acrylic, 3 pencil various sizes. PURCHASE. PERKINS, CHRISTOPHER, 1891-1968. , 9 ink, 1 pencil various sizes. Chiefly Wellington scenes of late 1920 s and 19305. PURCHASE. [PETER, JULIET] At Ban's studio [1947-ca.1949] 6 watercolours various sizes. Studies of models at Helen Crabb's Wellington studio.

[Members of Helen Hitchings' group, ca.1949] 4 ink, 1 watercolour various sizes. Portraits of D. K. Mac Diarmid, Helen Hitchings, John Drawbridge. DONATION. PETRAROJA. Noukahiva-Oceania [lB4-?] Col. lith. 42 X 30cm. PURCHASE. ■ ' [PRESTON, REV. JAMES] 1834-1898. [Cricklewood, South Canterbury, ca.1875] Watercolour 23 X 30cm. PURCHASE.

SHARPE, ALFRED, ca.1830-ca.1912. [Devonport and the Waitemata harbour from above Parnell] 1877. Watercolour 42 X 62cm. PURCHASE. SHERWOOD, MAUD WINIFRED (KIMBELL), 1880-1956. [Woman in blue and white by the sea. 19—] Watercolour 47 X 31cm. PURCHASE. SMITH, WILLIAM MEIN, 1799-1869. Kaimatangi mouth of the river Kaiwata, 1855. Watercolour 18 x 26cm. Mr Hales Te Unuuunu [lB6-] Ink and sepia wash 18 x 26cm. Mr Russell's station at Kawa Kawa [lB6-]

Ink and watercolour 18 X 26cm. Mouth of the Pahaoa [lB6-] Ink and watercolour 18 X 26cm. Pakuratahi, 1869. Ink and wash 18 X 26cm. Pirikawiti from Tawanui [lB6-] Watercolour 18 X 26cm. Tauwherinikau Hotel — Wairarapa [lB6-] Sepia ink and watercolour 18 X 26cm. Waikekeno, East coast [lB6-] Sepia ink and watercolour 18 X 26cm. DONATION: Mrs F. Waghorn, Te Kuiti. Worksop Farm, Worksop Road, Masterton [1863?] Watercolour 16 X 20cm. DONATION: Mrs I. N. Scott, Auckland. STEWART, HELEN, b. 1899. [Life drawings with the Thursday group, ca.1948] 13 conte drawings on newsprint each 48 X 37cm. Show members of Helen Hitchings' group. DONATION: Juliet Peter, Wellington.

STEWART, JOHN TIFFIN, 1827-1913. Wanganui, outer harbour, 1897. Watercolour 18 X 52cm. PURCHASE. STOWE, MRS J. Wellington Harbour [and] Somes Island [IBB-] Watercolour 17 X 14cm. PURCHASE. [TURNER, DENNIS KNIGHT] b. 1924. [Original drawings for book illustrations, 1946]. 59 ink 22 x 28cm. DONATION: A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington. [TURNER, GEORGE] 1833-1911. Maori passengers. Ihiah Tainui, his wife and Maria with two children. Left on South side of upper ford of the River Bealey . . . [ca. 1880] Watercolour 13X 19cm. PURCHASE. UNDERWOOD, FRANK. Constance Craig, Auckland [l9-] Watercolour 26 X 36cm. PURCHASE.

VELDEN, PETRUS VAN DER, 1834-1913. Sketchbook, 1913. 9 pencil in album 11 X 18 cm. DONATION: Mr G. Chote, Auckland. WALSH, PHILIP, 1843-1914. 8 sketchbooks, IB6os-1890s. Pencil, ink and watercolour various sizes. Chiefly New Zealand scenes, though three albums have scenes of France and Ireland. The New Zealand material includes Bay of Islands, Coromandel, Waitara and Waimate, reflecting Archdeacon Walsh's appointments in New Zealand. DONATION: Mrs J. Bradstreet, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia.

WELCH, NUGENT HERMAN, 1881-1970. The boat harbour, Wellington [ca. 1918] Watercolour 18 X 26cm. PURCHASE WELD, SIR FREDERICK ALOYSIUS, 1823-1891. Amuri, 1850. Watercolour 17 x 25 cm. Clarence River, 1855. Watercolour 12 x 17cm. Hurnui [sic] our new "Run" [lB5-] Watercolour 9 X 28cm. Lake Taupo [1854] Watercolour 12 X 21cm. Roto Kanapanapa [1854] Watercolour 17 x 24cm.

Site of (intended) town of Waitohi (P.S. now Picton) Queen Charlottes Sound 1858 watercolour 11 x 34.5 cm.

Valley of the Upper Wairau [1855] Watercolour 14 x 22cm. A selection of titles from a collection of 24 watercolours, previously on long-term loan to the library and now donated by Mrs C. M. Scrope, Blenheim. WILLIAMS, EDWARD ARTHUR, 1824-1898. Auckland harbour & Isles . . . 1864. Watercolour 12 X 33cm. Looking up the Patea River . . . 1864. Watercolour 15 x 24cm. Mangatauteri [sic] Pah — Waikato River . . . 1864. Watercolour 15 X 25 cm. Pencil, ink and watercolour various sizes. Sketches cover his travels in Italy, Gibraltar, Norway, Belgium and Holland. PURCHASE.

WILSON, B. MUNRO. Washing day — Ngamotu, 1929. Watercolour 24 x 35 cm. PURCHASE WOOLLASTON, SIR MOUNTFORD TOSSWILL, b. 1910. Rosedale, Nelson, 1960. Ink 41 X 59cm. DONATION: Mrs E. M. Beaglehole, Wellington. WYNYARD, ROBERT HENRY, 1802-1864. Sketchbook, 1852. 10 pencil, 6 ink, 6 ink & wash in album 25 X 20cm. Subjects include North Cape, Bay of Islands, Mount Egmont, Wanganui, Waikanae, Porirua Barracks, Nelson and Akaroa. PURCHASE.