Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 May 1988, Page 59

Notes on Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection

A SELECTIVE LIST OF ACQUISITIONS, JUNE 1986 TO DECEMBER 1987

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 1987. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included: photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded. artist unknown. [Bertha Burnett. 1829] Oil 26.5 x 21.4 cm. (sight) Painted in Edinburgh in 1829. Subject came to N.Z. with husband Samuel Burnett. Settled at Taita where S. Burnett had a sawmill and supplied timber for the first Wellington wharf, bequest: Miss L. Knight, Masterton.

Browning Pass from the valley of the Wilberforce. [1866?] Pencil & Chinese white 17.8 x 24.3 cm. Related to lithograph by Ward & Reeves after Haast. purchase. Erino. Massacre Bay. [lB4-?] Ink and watercolour 13.8 x 12.9 cm. Rino was principal chief of Ngati Awa of Golden Bay. purchase. E Piko. [lB4-?] Watercolour 17.8 x 14.8 cm. E Piko was a chief from Motueka. purchase.

White negroes. [lß—?] [London]: Thos. Kelly, Paternoster Row, [n.d.] Engraving (hand-col.) 27.5 x 21.5 cm. Plate 27 from unknown publication, purchase. backhouse, john Philemon, 1845-1908. Lake Taupo; Mount Egmont; Rotorua; The Pink Terraces; The old bridge and toll-house, Whakarewarewa, Rotorua; Ohinemutu, Rotorua. [lßß6] 6 paintings in 3 mounts oil on board 7.6 x 12.7 cm each (sight), purchase. balch, vistus, 1799-1884. Ko-towa-towa, a New Zealand chief. Drawn by A. T. Agate, V. Balch sc. [Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1845]. Engraving 13.3 x 11.0 cm. Plate from C. Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838 . . . 1842. v.2, p. 396. purchase.

BARNS-GRAHAM, ALLAN BARCLAY, b. 1906. Oliver Duff. [194-?]. Black & white chalk on brown paper 37.2 x 27.4 cm. purchase. T. A. McCormack. [194-?] Black & white chalk on grey paper 37.5 x 27.1 cm. purchase. Baxter, george, 1804-1867. The Revd J. Williams’ first interview with the natives of Erromanga . . . Printed, in oil colours by G. Baxter (patentee) . . . London: J. Snow, [lß4o] Col. Baxter print 10.8 x 7.3 cm. Removed from John Williams, A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands . . . London, 1840, purchase. bootham, Joseph, 1911-1986. Peter McLeavey 1962. Pastel 52.0 x 37.2 cm (sight), purchase.

brown, nigel, b. 1949. Clairmont: Naked in memory Clairmont. 84. Colour monoprint with acrylic 59.6 x 45.2 cm. purchase. [chevalier, Nicholas], 1828-1902. Attributed works. Pigeon Point, Banks Peninsular [sic], New Zealand. [1866?] Proof etching 8.1 x 13.8 cm. From a pencil drawing now in the National Art Gallery entitled ‘Pigeon Bay’, purchase. clark, russell stuart, 1905-1966. Russell Clark August 1959. Ink 27.0 x 23.0 cm. purchase. [clarke, cuthbert Charles], 1819-1863. Coromandel Harbor [sic] N.Z. [1949?] Pencil & sepia wash 15.8 x 24.2 cm. purchase. Pahia [sic] Beach, Bay of Islands. [1849] Watercolour over pencil 16.3 x 22.9 cm. purchase. Opita on the Thames, N.Z. [1849] Ink & sepia watercolour 21.1 x 26.8 cm. purchase.

earle, Augustus, 1793-1838. [Against truth, n.d.J Watercolour, pen & ink 17.8 x 25.4 cm. purchase. fenner sears & co. Wesley Dale, New Zealand, drawn by John Dennis from a sketch by D. Tyerman. [London]: Fenner Sears & Co., [lß3l] Engraving (hand-col.) 9.8 x 14.1 cm. Original watercolour held by ATL. purchase.

forbes co. Apteryx australis. Boston: Forbes Co., [lß—?] Tinted lithograph 50.9 x 40.5 cm. purchase. grimsdale, Murray, b. 1943. Douglas Lilburn [19J85. Pencil, pastel & acrylic 40.2 x 30.4 cm. purchase.

guiaud, j. Aiguade aux lies Auckland . . . Desine par L. Le Breton lithe par J. Guiaud, lith. de Thierry freres, Paris. Paris: Gide Editeur, [1846] Plate from: Dumont d’Urville, J.S.C. Voyage au Pole sud. Atlas pittoresque. Plate 176. Lithograph (hand-col.) 20.2 x 37.2 cm. purchase. [harrison, Charles] [Gold mining scenes 186-?] Black’s Rush; Camp, Round Gully Tent, Saxons Rush; Dunedin Harbour; Greigs Station, Upper Taieri Plains; Hogburn; Junction township, Dunstan; The Manu-here-kia; Mollineaux [sic] River below the junction; Mollineuas [sic] River, Coal Point; Port Chalmers; Road to the Dunstan, Deep Creek; Rush to the Hogburn: The Woolshed; Upper township, Dunstan. Pencil, or pencil and grey wash on card variable sizes to 19.0 x 22.0 cm. purchase.

hawkins, william webster, b. 1842. Illustrations of N.Z., 1866-67. 29 ink drawings in sketchbook 22.0 x 27.5 cm, blue buckram, purchase. heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881. C. L. Churton: Mrs Heaphy, 1851. Pencil and watercolour on card 25.1 x 19.9 cm. (oval). Inscribed on verso ‘This was taken about 6 months before they were [married] . . .’ donation: Miss H. Nicholls, Waipukurau. holmes, william Howard, 1825-1885. [Willis St, Wellington] 1863. Pencil, watercolour, Chinese white 24.1 x 34.1 cm. purchase.

[hutton, thomas biddulph] 1824-1886. Sketch of Henry Williams house & premises from behind Horotutu Bay of Islands N. Zealand. 1859. Watercolour 8.8 x 2.6 cm. donation: Mr M. T. Hutton, Masterton. mcintyre, mary cecilia, b. 1933. Machine Dreams: From Scratch Aug 85. 1985. Pencil & col. pencil on paper 56.5 x 76.0 cm. Music group showing Charlotte Wrightson, Phil Dadson and Richard Von Sturmer, & self-portait of artist, purchase. [Portrait of Terry Stringer], 1986. Oil on hardboard 28.6 x 19.8 cm. purchase. Portrait of Tony Fomison. [1986?]. Lithograph, artist’s proof 38.4 x 53.7 cm. purchase. “See no evil”: a portrait of Patrick Hanly with thanks to Tony Fomison. [1986?] Oil on board 29.0 x 49.5 cm. Unfinished portrait of Sir Robert Muldoon on verso. PURCHASE.

maclure, Macdonald & macgregor (Firm). Lyttelton, Port of Victoria drawn by E. Norman; Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lith., London. Lyttelton: published by Martin Hey wood, [1859?] Tinted lithograph 24.9 x 39.1 cm. purchase. Town of Lyttelton. Drawn by E. Norman. Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lith., London. Lyttelton: published by Martin Heywood, [1859?] Tinted lithograph 24.8 x 38.8 cm. purchase. [Merrett, Joseph jenner] 1 8 16?-1 854. Tomita: Waka: Nene, New Zealand chief. [n.df Watercolour 29.5 x 25.8 cm. purchase. [preston, james] 1834-1898. Otahu homestead, 1861. Pencil, watercolour, Chinese white 24.5 x 34.8 cm. purchase. rees, william gilbert, 1827-1898. Original sketches. 1852-1884. 52 pencil or watercolour drawings in album 31.0 x 25.5 cm. 1/2 green calf, donation: Mrs G. Rees, Lower Hutt.

robley, horatio Gordon, 1840-1930. A Tangi at Matapihi. 1894. Watercolour & ink 19.7 x 29.4 cm. purchase. strutton, edith e., b. 1867? Pandila Rambal. 1904. Oil on board 21.8 x 15.3 cm. Portrait of an Indian woman, donation: St John’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington. Sutherland, scott, 1910-1984. Ron Stenberg [196-?] Patinated bronze 30.5 x 19.5 x 22.3 cm. donation: Ron Stenberg, Fife, Scotland. toogood, seymour h. Head Quarter camp, Waitotara River: looking towards the mouth & 1 mile from it, river fordable. [1865] Pencil & watercolour 11.9 x 21.9 cm. purchase. ward & reeves (Firm). [lllustrations for] Report . . . upon the practicability of constructing a bridle road through the gorge of the Otira . . . [Christchurch]: Ward & Reeves, [1865] 27 tinted lithographs variable sizes to 28.0 x 19.0 cm. purchase.