Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 23, Issue 2, 1 October 1990, Page 173

Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, AUGUST 1989 TO JULY 1990

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 October 1989. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded.

artist unknown. [Encampment at River Mouth, Auckland, ca. 1844] Watercolour & pencil (oval) 11 X2ocm. purchase. [North Canterbury Sketches] 1882-1883. 14 pencil & wash drawings, in sketchbook 9 X 13cm. Shows views of Waikari township, Limehurst, Lake Taylor, Horsely Downs and Four Peaks Stations, and Maori rock drawings at Weka Pass, donation: Mr David Gibson, Cheltenham, England. anderson, georgina. Sir George Clifford’s Early Home, Stoneyhurst. Deer 12th, 1884. Watercolour, 35.4 X 25.2 cm. donation: Mr R. J. Case, Otaki.

BACKHOUSE, JOHN PHILEMON, 1845-1908. 36 watercolours of Australian and New Zealand scenes and Australasian birds, plants and butterflies, donation: Onehunga Public Library, Auckland. [Sketchbook of New Zealand Views] 18 watercolour, pencil, and monochrome wash sketches in album. Shows views of Auckland, Hamilton, Bay of Islands and Thames, donation: Onehunga Public Library, Auckland.

browne, michael, b. 1930. Three Faces: Landscape. 1990. Oil on board (3-part panorama), 29 X 122 cm. Shows a part of Wellington Harbour at three different times of day. donation: Mrs Syme Ritchie, Waikanae. bullock-webster, harold, 1855-1942. [lllustrations for ‘Memories of Sport and Travel 50 Years Ago’ and Other Sketches and Illustrations] 14 ink and watercolour sketches relating to Bullock-Webster’s autobiography, published in 1938. purchase.

charman, anne (johnstone). [Portrait of A. H. O’Keeffe, Artist] 1933. Oil on canvas, 33.5 X 26.5 cm. Alfred Henry O’Keeffe was a prominent Dunedin painter and art teacher, and leading member of the Otago Art Society from 1886 to 1941. donation: Mrs Anne Charman, Timaru. danvin, after sainson, louis auguste de, b. 1801. 5 hand-coloured engravings, from drawings by Danvin, after L. A. de Sainson, published in Domeny de Rienzi’s Oceanie (Paris, 1863). Views of Maori life and customs and early encounters with Europeans, donation: John Briggs, Alys Antiques, Cambridge.

DOWNSTAGE THEATRE. 252 sheets of stage plans and designs, donation: Downstage Theatre, Wellington. gully, John, 1819-1888. [Camping in the Bush. 187-] Watercolour, 56.5 X 39.5 cm. donation: Ministry of External Relations and Trade, Wellington. HEAPHY, CHARLES, 1820-1881. 2 pencil and 1 ink sketch. Show lake and boating scenes, purchase.

j.c. [Maori portraits. 1843?] 19 watercolours, 25.7 X 12.2 cm. Head and shoulder profile portraits of Maori mostly from the Nelson area. See separate article by Marian Minson in May 1990 issue of the Record for further details, purchase. king, MARCUS, b. 1891. The Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, February 6, 1840. 1939. Oil on board, 123 x 185 cm. Reconstructed view of the Treaty signing, painted for the centenary celebrations, February 1940. donation: Ministry of External Relations and Trade, Wellington.

lodge, NEVILLE Sidney, 1918-1989, and McCUNN, leith. [Cartoons for the Public Service Journal. 1958-1959] 6 pencil, ink & wash cartoons, donation: P.S.A. National Office, Wellington. maurin, antoine, 1793-1860. Nouvelle Zelande: 1.2. Vieille Femme et Esclave de Wangari. 3. Pako, Chef de Cap Reinga. 4. Tatouage de la Cuisse de Pako. 5. Naturel de Reinga. de Sainson pinxt., Maurin lith. [Paris: J. Tastu, 1833] Hand-coloured lithograph, 51.5 X 34.3 cm. Fromj. S. C. Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage de la Corvette lAstrolabe . . . Atlas, vol. I. purchase.

Rangui, I’un des Chefs de Shouraki ( Nouvelle Zelande). de Sainson pinx.; Maurin lith. [Paris: J. Tastu, 1833] Hand-coloured lithograph, 51.5 X 34.5 cm. Detached fromj. S. C. Dumont dUrvilles Voyage de la Corvette lAstrolabe . . . Atlas, vol. I. purchase. mitchell, Leonard Cornwall, 1901-1971. [Portrait of Nugent Welch] 1957. Oil on canvas, 101 X 82cm. Welch was Official War Artist during World War One and was Mitchell’s tutor at Wellington Technical College School of Art. purchase.

monkhouse, thomas stewart. [Sketchbooks and Studies] 4 sketchbooks, 18 loose pencil sketches and 1 manual on decorative art. Monkhouse was the first instructor of painting and drawing at the Melbourne Working Men’s College in the late 1880 s. donation: Walter Cook, Wellington. norman, edmund, 1820-1875. Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand, [ca. 1855] Pen & grey ink (4-part panorama), 22.5 X 122.5 cm. purchase. robley, horatio Gordon, 1840-1930. [Miscellaneous Sketches, Cards and Illustrations] 17 postcards, 4 illustrated envelopes, 1 ink & pencil sketch, 1 ink cartoon sketch & 37 illustrated letters. Consist mostly of Maori subject matter, purchase.

sainson, louis auguste de, b. 1801. Nouvelle Zelande: Cabane de la Bale Tolaga. Maison dun Chef de la Bale des lies. Maison du Chef Pomare . . . de Sainson, pinx. et lith.; lith. de Langlume. [Paris: J. Tastu, 1833] Hand-coloured lithograph, 32.5 x 52cm. From J. S. C. Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage de la Corvette I’Astrolabe . . . Atlas , vol. I. purchase. seddon, Beatrice, 1890-1987. Bell House in Lowry Bay, Wellington. Watercolour, 36.7 x 41.7 cm. donation: Mary Seddon, Wellington. worsley, Charles Nathaniel, d. 1923. Franz Joseph Glacier. Watercolour, 72 x 122.5 cm. donation: Ministry of External Relations and Trade, Wellington.