Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection
A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JANUARY 1985 TO MAY 1986
Acquisitions of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture 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 May 1985. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded.
ARTIST unknown. [Album of an officer en route to and from New Zealand and on service in New Zealand] 1863-1867. 42 pencil, ink & watercolour on album leaves 26.5 x 36.2 cm. purchase. Engraving & aquatint (hand-coloured) 17.8 x 11.8 cm purchase. Nueva Zelanda . . . Parte N. de la isla del Medio desde el Estrecho de Cook [after 1862] Pencil & watercolour 17.2 x 24.5 cm. Two coastal profiles. PURCHASE.
Rangihaeta: Rauparaha’s fighting general [lB4-?] Ink & watercolour 28.4 x 19.1 cm. Related to portraits of the same subject in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., in Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum, and in Alexander Turnbull Library, purchase. Rauparaha: Kafia chief [lB4-?] Ink & watercolour 27.7 x 18.5 cm. Related to portraits of the same subject in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass., in National Library of Australia, in Bett Collection, Nelson Provincial Museum, and in Alexander Turnbull Library. PURCHASE.
Wanganui [lB6-?] Pencil & watercolour 17.8 x 25.2 cm. PURCHASE. baloghy, george, b. 1950. [Kidikidi revisited. 1985] Coloured lithograph 31.6 x 45.5 cm. Pastiche based on Chazal’s 1826 aquatint after Lejeune. purchase. [BARRAUD, Charles decimus] 1822-1897. Ta ringa Kuri [lB5-?] Pencil & watercolour 17.2 x B.3cm. Portrait of Te Kaeaea (Ngati Tama tribe). PURCHASE.
CLARKE, CUTHBERT CHARLES, 1819-1863. Fern-tree. W. Swainsondel. Cuthbert Clarke lith. [Auckland, 1849]. Lithograph (hand-coloured) 18.4 x 15.2 cm. One of only three known copies. PURCHASE. [Rangitoto from central Auckland, with Maori figures and bullock cart in foreground. 1850?] Pencil 24.9 x 34.8 cm. purchase.
[COOKSON, JANETTA maria] 1812-1867. [Views of Lyttelton, Akaroa, Otaki and Rotorua] 1851-1853. 25 pencil or pencil & wash, each 17.5 x 25.7 cm. Views of the artist’s house at Mt Rhodes, Otaki church and mission station, various identified houses at Akaroa and Lyttelton. PURCHASE. [CROSS, ENID] [Portrait of Bare in an armchair, ca 1956] Pastel 53.7 x 41.8 cm. donation: Enid Cross, Auckland. CUSHMAN, GEORGE HEWITT, 1814-1876. View in New Zealand. Drawn by A. T. Agate. G. H. Cushman sc. [Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1845] Engraving 11.8 x 18.0 cm. Detached from Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. purchase. [GILBERT, GEORGE channing] 1838-1913. [Brighton Place, the home of Rev. Thomas Gilbert, Omata, New Plymouth] 1863. Pencil 19.7 x 28.0 cm.
[Brookwoodfrom the east, Omata. ca. 1860] Pencil 23.6 x 26.0 cm. [Brookwood, the home of Rev. H. Brown, Omata, New Plymouth, ca. 1860] Pencil 26.2 x 32.3 cm. [Farm, possibly at Wakatu, Nelson. 18—] Watercolour over pencil 29.3 X 20.8 cm. [House in a clearing at Omata. ca. 1860] Pencil 23.6 x 25.9 cm. [Mount Arthur range from Wakatu, showing the old road over the Waimea estuary, Nelson. 18—]
Watercolour over pencil 22.1 x 34.6 cm. [Oakura Bay and Tataraimaka Headland from Brookwood, Omata. ca. 1860] Pencil 23.6 x 25.9 cm. [Residence in the Nelson district. 18—] Watercolour 21.2 x 29.8 cm. Believed to show Sir Edward Stafford’s house. [Swiss cottage, the home ofjabez Marriage Gibson, ca. 1860] Pencil 18.9 x 27.9 cm. donation: Ray Gilbert, Eastbourne. [GLEESON, NELLIE] [Wallsend Mine, Westland. 1887?] Oil on unstretched canvas 25.4 x 37.3 cm. donation: Miss Agnes Sullivan, Petone.
[green, samuel edwy] 1838-1935. Off Bab el Mandeb [lB5-] Ink & watercolour 19.3 x 28.7 cm. Wreck of the Margarita Mirabeau near Cook Rock, Crystall beach, Akatore [l9ol] Pencil & watercolour 15.9 x 27.5 cm. DONATION: Professor G. H. Green, Auckland. guIIy,JOHN, 1819-1888. [Sketchbook of South Island scenes] 188 7. 25 pencil & 1 wash, each 13.6 x 21.8 cm. purchase. heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881. Mt Egmotit, from the Sugar Loaf Islands, Taranake. 1849. Watercolour & Chinese white 14.4 x 18.3 cm. PURCHASE. [HOLMES, WILLIAM Howard] 1825 P-1885. Wellington beach. 1856. Pencil & watercolour 22.2 x 33.2 cm. PURCHASE. HOMEYER, ELIZABETH, b. 1832 or 1833. Port Chalmers, Otago, N.Z. 1850. Watercolour with Chinese white 18.8 x 25.5 cm. purchase.
MACMILLAN, ETHEL LOUISA, d. 1942. [Chiefly Wellington scenes] 1933-1935. 18 watercolour over pencil, various sizes. Mainly scenes of Brooklyn and environs, where Ethel Macmillan (nee Latham) and her husband, tharles Edward (M.P. for Tauranga, 1923-1935) lived during the Parliamentary session. DONATION: Mrs Ellen McCormack, Tauranga. Matthews, marmaduke, 1885 P-1949. The Campanile - Wellington [193-?] Etching 23.4 x 17.1 cm. purchase.
moller, I. S.S. Manaia [between 1912 & 1926] Oil 34.0 x 63.0 cm. purchase. pokiha, rangi hauiti, 1895 or 1896-1980. Maori wharepuni [ca. 1910] Pencil & ink 18.4 x 24.5 cm. donation: Mrs B. Watters, Days Bay. SMITHER, MICHAEL DUNCAN, b. 1934. [Elizabeth Smither writing] 1974. Pencil 25.2 x 20.1 cm. purchase.
stones, Anthony, b. 1933. [Head of Rewi Alley] 1984. Patinated bronze 27.5 x 20,0 x 20.5. purchase. Sketchbooks, 1981-1982. 272 ink or ink & watercolour in 2 sketchbooks, each 28.0 x 22.0 cm. Portraits of Frank Sargeson, Michael Illingworth, Rod Dixon, John Walker, Sir Edmund Hillary and Roderick Finlayson. Auckland and Northland scenes. PURCHASE.
STRINGER, TERRY, b. 1946. [Head of Eve Page] 1984-1985. Patinated bronze 31.0 x 18.0 x 21.5 cm. purchase. swainson, william, 1789-1855. Road to the Hutt between Noranga & Petoni. 1848. Pencil 11.9 x 16.2 cm. Thompson’s (Young Rauperaha) New house. Otaki [1849?] Pencil 8.9 x 12.9 cm. donation: Early Settlers’ & Historical Association, Wellington. whidborne, harry elderton. Camp, Poutoko, New Zealand. 57th & 70th Detachments. 1864. Pencil & Chinese white 10.2 x 15.6 cm.
Fort Robert & coast half a mile beyond Poutoko, New Zealand [1864] Pencil & Chinese white 10.2 x 15.5 cm. purchase. WOOLLASTON, MOUNTFORD TOSSWILL, b. 1910. [Barry Brickell. 1968] Ink 38.0 x 50.5 cm. [Self-portrait] 1979. Pencil & watercolour 31.6 x 28.2 cm.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume 20, Issue 1, 1 May 1987, Page 50
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