MAJOR ART ACCESSIONS SINCE NOVEMBER 1967

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 2, Issue 1, 1 April 1969, Page 34

MAJOR ART ACCESSIONS SINCE NOVEMBER 1967

ARTISTS UNKNOWN moil Jr/rjorrr.’D u/jv.i e rm. i v/oa>! uoy mxh 'A ojWtxa xii ibod. Miron 3rad s.ds go ovil oj bssficuim iavo Emigrants Depot Freemans Bay Auckland. 1863 2iloij£bl Watercolour. 7.7 x 17m. Purchase New Plymouth, New Zealand, [iß6o] Watercolour and pen and ink. 10.7 x 22.2 in. Purchase ■■jwrtani Shows township, Marsland Hill and harbour, St Mary’s church, various regiments and encampments near the church. 7 «3SCJ zeii one iavsb . , a D t,:li nn j-jWc vjoy [Portrait of F. E. Maning. ca 1850] Oil painting on canvas. 30 x 24m. Purchase AMATEUR performance, Britannia saloon on Monday evening next, September Ist .. . The Warlock of the Glen ... to conclude with the favourite Farce of the Village Lawyer. Wellington: Printed at the Spectator Office, Manners-Street, August: 16 1845. Theatrical poster; letterpress. 24.8 x ioin Purchase.

BARTON, Cranleigh Harper 21 watercolours. Donation: the artist. This collection includes several views of parts of Wellington City about 1930, which show buildings that have since been demolished. There are also a number of paintings of the Tongariro National Park. BLAKLEY, S. T. [Portrait of A. E. Wildey. 1939] Oil painting on canvas. 24 x 18in. Donation: Mrs Joan Bate. [BLOMFIELD, Charles] 1848-1926 [Venus Bath, Rotomahana. 1903] Oil painting on board. 18.8 x 24.8 m. Purchase Painting of the White Terraces before the Tarawera eruption. Probably copied from an earlier painting. CLARKE, I. Rotomahana Hot Springs (Te Tarata). Province of Auckland. Watercolour. 10.5 x 28.4 m. Purchase Inscribed: painted by I. Clarke 1862 Napier New Zealand. Panoramic view of Rotomahana, Mount Tarawera, and the White Terraces. COLLECTION of bookplates, book labels, and library slips Donation: Mr E. C. Simpson.

[FOX, William] 1812-1893 Fox Glacier, Weheka or Cook’s River, Westland, New Zealand [1872] Watercolour. 10x 16.5 m. Donation: Miss M. V. Mueller.

[HEAPHY, Charles] 1820-1881 [Castle Rock and Coromandel Harbour, ca 1853] Sepia. 9.7 x 14m. Purchase [HORSFALL, John Atherton] d. 1900 [Hutt River. 1875?] Watercolour. 14.4 x 23.1 m. Purchase —[Hutt Valley. 1875?] Watercolour. 10.5x15.3 in. Purchase —[Hutt Valley-Wainuiomata Hill and Lowry Trig from the BelmontPauatahanui Road. 1875?] Watercolour. 16.1 x 12.7 m. Purchase —[Mason’s Gardens, Hutt Valley. 1875?] Watercolour. 12.5 x 16.4 m. Purchase —[Taita, Lower Hutt. 1875?] Watercolour, ii.ix 19.5 m. Purchase —[York Bay, East Harbour, Wellington. 1875?] Watercolour. 12.2 x 20.2 m. Purchase

J. A. Horsfall was a Melbourne Quaker who visited New Zealand briefly in 1875, staying in the Hutt Valley. [HOYTE, John Barr Clarke] 1835-1913 Ngawhana, Rotomahana. \ca 1873] Watercolour. 10 x 16.8 in. Purchase Shows the pink Terraces in the background. JOEL, Grace, 1865-1924 [Richard John Seddon. 1906?] Oil painting on canvas. 36.4 x 28.3 in. Donation: NZ External Affairs Department. KINDER, John, 1819-1903 Tongariro & Roto Aire. 1862. Watercolour. 9.3 x 13.5 m. Purchase MORETON, Samuel Horatio, 1845-1921 Collection of pencil sketches, monochromes, and 2 sketchbooks. Donation: Wildey family. This collection of about 200 sketches will supplement the Library’s already extensive collection of Moreton’s watercolours, monochromes, and pencil sketches. MUNDY, Godfrey Charles Middle entrance Auckland Harbour. [Dec. 10th 1847] Pencil. 6.8 x io.2in. Purchase

Military Post on Porirua Harbour [1847] pencil. 7X 10.2 in Purchase. MUNDY, Mrs L. Five Islands, Illawarra. From the Mt. Keera Road. [Feb. 6th 1849] Pencil. 7.6 x 9.3 in. Purchase

—[lllawarra, a salt lagoon. Jan. 29th 1849] pencil and crayon. 7.8 x 9.7 m Purchase. The two Australian sketches by Mrs Mundy are the originals for lithographs illustrating Our Antipodes, by G. C. Mundy, London, 1852. OLIVER, Richard Aldworth New Zealand natives [ca 1850] Watercolour. 8 x 10 in. Purchase —‘Neddy’ a New Zealand half-cast, [ca 1850] Watercolour. 4.4 x 4.2 in. Purchase. —New Zealand Mouri female, [ca 1850] Watercolour. 4.5 x 3.6 m. Purchase The above three sketches were painted by Captain Oliver between 1847 and 1851 when he was the Commander of hms Fly, engaged in the first hydrographic survey of New Zealand.

PAYTON, E. W. Tauanui, Wairarapa. [iß]B3. Oil painting on canvas. 8.1 x 12.3 in. Purchase PIRINGER Vue de L’lle Huaheim dans la mer du sud. Jas. Clevely [sic]. Piringer. Paris: Bance [ca 1790] Aquatint (uncol.). 18.8 x 24.2 m. (trimmed). Purchase Shows the Resolution and Discovery about to sail from the Tahitian island of Huahine.

—Vue de detroit Charlotte dans la Nouvelle Zelande dans la mer du sud. Jas. Clevelyfsic] Piringer. Paris: Bance [ca 1790] Aquatint (uncol.). 18.9 x 24.2 m. (trimmed). Purchase Shows Captain Cook with Tahitians on the beach, native dwellings, canoes, and the Resolution and Discovery at anchor. The Library already holds a hand-coloured version of this print. The above two aquatints are French versions of two earlier aquatints after Cleveley, engraved by Jukes, ie [Matavai Bay, Tahiti] and Huaheine one of the Society Islands. RICHARDSON, W. City of Wellington, New Zealand. [lß4l] W. Richardson, lith: from a sketch by L. Nattrass. [lst ed.] London: Huggins’ Marine Mart [lß4l ?] Lithograph. 7.3 x 85.8 m. Purchase Has key on three separate sheets, also ‘Key to sketch of Wellington, Port Nicholson, in New Zealand’. SWAINSON, William, 1789-1855 Derwent River near New Norfolk; looking down. Feb. 1854. Pencil. 5.1 x 7.6 in. Purchase —Mr. Bielby’s[?] Range, 8 May [18]53 Pencil. 5.5 x 8.7 m. Purchase —SoEaster Bay. [Hutt] Road to Wellington. N.Zd. 1846 Pencil. 5.4 x 8.4 m. Purchase