Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection
A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JUNE 1983 TO DECEMBER 1984
Acquisitions of paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture arc 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 1984. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photomechanical reproductions recently published arc excluded.
ARTIST UNKNOWN. Flotte de Ta'iti [Paris? 18-} Engraving 15 x 20.1 cm. PURCHASE. The Matata pah, New Zealand, the refuge of the murderers of the Rev. Mr Volkner [New York] Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1866. Engraving 20 x 25.1 cm. PURCHASE.
[The North Shore ferry leaving the Auckland terminal. 188-?] Watercolour 22.1 x 38cm. PURCHASE. Old mission house at Paihia [ 18—] Pencil & watercolour 12.4 x 18.2 cm. PURCHASE.
[Portrait of Anehana. 19—] Watercolour on rangiora 1eaf21.2 x 14.5 cm. DONATION: Mrs E.M. Shaw, Christchurch. [The Southern Alps. Afier 1867?] Watercolour 11.3 x 18.2 cm. After plate on p. 38 of G.F. von Hochstetter’s New Zealand, its physical geography... (Stuttgart, 1867), from original by Charles Heaphy. PURCHASE.
[Taupo Lake. Afier 1867?] Watercolour 11.3 x 21.1 cm. After plate on p. 364 of G.F. von Hochstetter’s New Zealand, its physical geography... (Stuttgart, 1867), from original by Hochstetter. PURCHASE.
[ Te Awaiti Station. 186-?] 3 pencil, each 11 x 18cm. DONATION: Mrs A. Newman, Hastings. Union Steamship Co. of New Zealand Limited. New buildings at Wellington... [ Wellington? 1909] 2 photolithographs, each 30 x 33cm. DONATION: Mrs J. Cormack, Levin.
View of the harbor of Auckland Island [Boston] Gleeson’s Pictorial DrawingRoom Companion [between 1851 & 1854] Engraving 14 x 25.2 cm. PURCHASE. ADAM, JEAN VICTOR, 1801-1867. Tonga-Tabou. vient demander la fin des hostility. De Sainson pinx ... [Paris] J. Tastu [1833] Lithograph (hand-coloured) 24.3 x 34.4 cm. PURCHASE.
[BENSEMANN, LEO VERNON] b. 1912. [Denis Glover. 195-?] Ink 21.6 x 15.7 cm. PURCHASE. [Self-portrait] 1981. Pencil 64 x 50cm. PURCHASE. BEYER, CHARLES, b. 1792. Pirogue deguerre de la Nouvelle-Zcdande... [Paris? 18—?] Engraving 15.1 x 20.2 cm. PURCHASE.
BOWRY, WILLIAM HENRY. [The mill, Renall Street, Masterton. 188-?] Watercolour 18.2 x 25.8 cm. PURCHASE. BURTON, SALLY, b. 1949. Rita Angus in Betty Curnow’s shirt. 1983. Oil on hardboard 57.5 x 60.6 cm. PURCHASE.
CALMAN, GORDON JAMIESON. Tiki-talk: epistles of the Corinthians. Souvenir - Lefi Wing 23rd RJmts [1917] 25 ink, each ca 15 x 20cm. Originals for illustrations published in Tiki-talk, magazine of troop-ship S.S. Corinthic. LONG-TERM LOAN.
CLERE, FREDERICK DE JERSEY, 1856-1952. Victoria College... 1904. Watercolour 29 x 54.2 cm. Unsuccessful design in competition for building for Victoria College, Wellington. PURCHASE.
[CRAWFORD, JAMES COUTTS] 1817-1889. [Sketchbooks of South Island, Wellington, Wairarapa and Manawatu scenes] 1863-64. Pencil & ink drawings in 4 sketchbooks, various sizes. PURCHASE. [FAIRBURN, ARTHUR REX DUGARD] 1904-1957. [Designs for fabric printing, 19471950] 34 lino block prints 9.7 x 25.4 cm. to 56.5 x 28.6 cm. PURCHASE. [GILFILLAN, JOHN ALEXANDER] 1793-1863. [Matarawa; the farm of Mr Gilfillan. Between 1845 & 1847] Watercolour 31.7 x 48cm. PURCHASE.
GRAINGER, ELIZABETH J., b. 1951. Dobbs Franks. Earth and Sky, Tauranga, 1969. 8 ink drawings in sketchbook, 27.6 x 37.8 cm. DONATION: Mr Dobbs Franks, Melbourne. HARBILD, T. The “John Williams’’: purchased and equipped by the Juvenile Friends of the London Missionary Society... London, John Snow [1866?] Chromolithograph 30.1 x 45.2 cm. PURCHASE. [HEAPHY, CHARLES] 1820-1881. [Anna Bishop. 1844?] Watercolour 24.9 x 17.9 cm. (oval). [The home of Mr & Mrs William Bishop, Maitai Valley. 1844?] Watercolour 24.4 x 32.1 cm. DONATION: Miss H. Nicholls, Waipuktirau.
HILL, MABEL, 1872-1956. His Worship the Mayor of Auckland, 1901, Dr f. Logan Campbell. Watercolour 37.6 x 27.6 cm. PURCHASE. HOLM, ANNIE ALEXANDER, 1874-1969. St Mark’s, Wgtn. 1897. Watercolour 35 x 22cm. DONATION: Mr J. Sutton-Pratt, Wellington.
J.O.W. [Scenes from a South Island journey] 1886. 7 watercolours, each 12.5 x 17.5 cm. Views of Waimauku, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Castle Hill, Cass, Waimakariri River and Dunedin. PURCHASE. J.T. SMITH & CO. ... View of the town and port of Lyttelton ... T.W. Riby delt. Christchurch, f.T. Smith &Co. [1883?] Lithograph 37.8 x 60cm. PURCHASE.
KELLS, HAZEL EDITH. “Kuia”. Dame Whina Cooper. 1982. Pastel 58.5 x 44cm. DONATION: Dr K.R. Standage, Whangarei. KINDER, JOHN, 1819-1903. Keri-Keri, Bay of Islands. 1858. Monotone watercolour over pencil 9.5 x 29.1 cm.
[Keri-Keri Falls. 1858] Pencil & blue wash 9.5 x 12cm. Old Jlax mill and village of Newmarket from the Carlton Road. 1858. Sepia ink 25.6 x 36.4 cm. The old Mission House (The Rcvd T. Chapman’s) at the Ngae, Rotorua. N.Zd. Jany 1858.
Monotone ink & wash over pencil 17.6 x 25.6 cm. S. Mark’s, Remuera & Mt. Eden. 1859. Monotone ink & watercolour 25.7 x 36.2 cm. Whangaroa. Deer. 30 [lßsß] Pencil 9.5 x 17.1 cm. PURCHASE.
KNOWLES, DAVID. [Jon Trimmer j 1984. Oil on hardboard 58 x 58.3 cm. PURCHASE.
LEGGATT, T.T. [ The Rutherford flax mill at Pungarehu] 1890. Pencil & watercolour 22.1 x3l.7cm. DONATION: Mr Q.E. Rutherford, Papakura.
LOHSE. [New Zealand illustrations to Malerische Reise um die Welt] Lohse sc. [Leipzig, Baumgartner, 1835] 2 engravings, each 18.2 x 21,7 cm. PURCHASE. MacCORMAC, PHYLLYS, b. 1905. [Portraits, chiefly of the artist Bare. 1946?] 5 pencil, various sizes. DONATION: Miss P. MacCormac, Auckland. [McFARLANE, FRANCIS LEDINGTON] 1888-1948. [Scenes from war service in the Middle East and India] 1916-1918. 53 pencil, ink & watercolour, and 5 sketchbooks, various sizes. DONATION: Mrs S. McFarlane-Highet, Lower Hutt. McFARLANE, SHONA, b. 1930. Allan Highet, M.P. 1913. Acrylic on hardboard 75.8 x 60.8 cm. DONATION: Mrs S. McFarlane-Highet, Lower Hutt.
MARSHALL, MARJORIE. Benhar Potteries [193-?] Oil 26.4 x 31cm. PURCHASE. MITCHELL, ALISON, b. 1949. [Self-portrait] August 1916. Pencil on board 39.5 x 29.4 cm. PURCHASE. NAIRN, JAMES McLACHLAN, 1859-1904. Horokiwi. 1898. Watercolour 28 x 38cm. [River scene] 1898. Watercolour 27.7 x 37.6 cm. DONATION: Miss F. A. Hughes, Taupo.
OLIVER, RICHARD ALDWORTH, 1811-1889. [Te Rauparaha wearing a cocked hat and tunic. 1848?] Sepia watercolour over pencil 26.8 x 27.7 cm. PURCHASE. PARK, ROBERT, 1812-1870. Rough sketch of the Tyne on the 6th July 1845. Watercolour over pencil 51.2 x 21.2 cm. DONATION: Mrs M.E. Moore, Kekerengu, Marlborough.
PERCY, william STRATFORD, b. 1872 or 1873. Wellington, New Zealand [ca 1900] Etching 21.2 x 21,2 cm. PURCHASE. [PHILLIPS, JOCK] b. 1947. [7// the light of the past. 1980-1983] 946 35mm colour transparencies. Slides taken by Dr Phillips and Chris Maclean in preparation of book on stained glass windows in New Zealand houses. PURCHASE.
RAFFET, AUGUSTE, 1804-1860. Baie Houa-Houa. Naturels executant une danse a bord de /’ Astrolabe. (Nouvelle-Zelande). De Sainson pinx [Paris]J. Tastu [1833] Lithograph (hand-coloured) 28.3 x 36.2 cm. PURCHASE. RICHMOND, JAMES CROWE, 1822-1898. [Bedstead Gully, Collingwood. 1873] Watercolour 36 x 53.5 cm. PURCHASE. French’s house as it appeared when H. & I took possession. May 1851. Pencil 26.7 x 39.9 cm. DONATION: Vice-Admiral Sir Maxwell Richardson, Whangarei.
[SMITHER, MICHAEL DUNCAN] b. 1939. [ Valerie Rigg and Anthony Watson playing the violin and viola. 1970] Pencil 26 x 20.6 cm. DONATION: Mr I. Bootham, Wellington. [STONES, ANTHONY] b. 1933. [Dan Davin. 1983] Patinated bronze sculpture on steel base 29.5 x 23.5 x 25.5 cm. PURCHASE. [TERRY, EDWARD LIONEL] 1867-1952. [A pair of white herons. 19-] Watercolour on black silk 10.5 x 6.5 cm. DONATION: Dr R.F. Aitken, Wellington.
WEEKS, JOHN, 1885-1965. [A bridge in Rome, ca 1928] Watercolour 14.7 x 16.2 cm. DONATION: MissJ. Sunderland, Wellington. WILLIAMS, EDWARD ARTHUR, 1824-1898. Auckland. Jan. [1866?] Pencil & watercolour on tinted paper 13 x 37.4 cm. [North Head and Rangitoto Island. 1864?] Pencil & watercolour on tinted paper 13 x 36.8 cm. PURCHASE.
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Turnbull Library Record, Volume XVIII, Issue 1, 1 May 1985, Page 53
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