Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 27, 1 January 1994, Page 103

Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

A Selective List of Acquisitions, July 1993 to June 1994

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 Accessions to the Drawings & Prints Collection’ in the Record for 1993 (Volume 26). Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included; photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded.

artist unknown. [Early Methodist Mission Station in Northland? 1838?] Ink. Unidentified upper North Island scene, from the collection of the Methodist Missionary Society, London, on paper watermarked 1837. purchase. artist unknown. [New Zealand and Pacific Sketchbook, 1848-49] Pencil and watercolour sketches. Views of Wellington and other parts of the North Island, Maori scenes and portraits, Pacific Island and Australian scenes, probably the work of a military or naval visitor, donation: Mrs Kate Kavanagh, England.

artist unknown. Wei Tongata, Waiwakaiho, Taranaki, 1857. Pencil. Portrait of ‘The oldest Maori in Taranaki’, donation: Mrs Joan A. Healey, England. baker, william george, 1864-1929. Otira Gorge in the 1880 s [1912?]. Oil on canvas. Shows the road through Otira Gorge with a carriage and four horses. Painted in 1912 for a London exhibition to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, donation: Mr L. St J. Godsland, England.

barraud, Charles decimus, 1822-97. [Wellington from Kelburn] 1870 and [Lake Coleridge Station] 1870. Two watercolours. A panoramic view of Wellington Harbour, with part of Thorndon, and an extensive view of an early high country run in the South Island, now part of a hydro-electric scheme, purchase. betts hopper, edward, d. 1840. [Self-Portrait 1830s] and [The Betts Hopper Home, Hampstead Heath, 1839 or 1840] One watercolour and four pencil. Edward Betts Hopper was a prominent early Wellington settler, who drowned in the Hutt River not long after his arrival, donation: Mrs Margaret E. Dunne, Auckland.

clere, Frederick de jersey, 1856-1952. [Views of Wellington and Thorndon 19205] Four watercolours. Two views of Bolton Street, one probably showing the Clere family home, dated 1928, a view of Wellington from the Botanic Gardens, and an English scene, donation: Mr David Luke, Wellington. firth, cedric h., d. 1994. [Architectural Plans, ca. 1930-80] Ca. 500 plans and drawings. The work of an influential New Zealand architect who worked in England and the United States, as well as in New Zealand with Ernst Plischke. donation: Greta and Hilda Firth, Dunedin.

[johnston, john tremenhere], Hapimana Ngapika and Reihana Taukawa Tukarawa [ 1863 or 1864], Two watercolours. Portraits of two of a group of fourteen Maori, mostly Ngapuhi, who visited England with William Jenkins in 1863-64. purchase.

[lebreton, louis-auguste-marie], 1818-66. Attributed works. [The Astrolabe Caught in Pack-Ice in Antarctica February] 1838. Ink, watercolour, and Chinese white. Dumont d’Urville’s ship with its crew attempting to release it from the ice. purchase. lynch, julia b., 18967-1975. [Matthew Kennedy] 1953. Oil on canvas board. Life-size portrait of M. J. Kennedy, Managing Director of the Wellington Gas Company until 1953. donation: The Kennedy Family, Island Bay, Wellington.

merrett, Joseph jenner, 18157-1854. Two Ladies of Orakau [lß4os?]. Watercolour. Formal portrait of two Maori women in traditional dress by one of the more important colonial artists, purchase. Oliver, richard aldworth, 1811-89. Tanghi, Motueka [ca. 1850]. Watercolour. Original for the lithograph published in Oliver’s Sketches in New Zealand (London, 1852), showing the pa at Motueka with a decorated canoe as a memorial to a recently-deceased chief, and part of the mourning ceremonies, purchase.

sommervell, a. m. Waerenga-a-Hika Mission Station [Poverty Bay ca. 1858]. Watercolour. The station of Bishop William Williams with its chapel, school, other buildings, and gardens, purchase. strutt, william, 1825-1915. Engineering a Tent as his First Home on Arrival in Taranaki, 1856. Pencil and watercolour. A drawing of Strutt and his wife Sarah with a Maori assistant building a tent in the bush, purchase.

turner, Nathaniel, 1793-1864. [Wesleydale Mission Station, Kaeo, Whangaroa, Northland, between 1824 & 1827] Pencil. A detailed view of the buildings at Wesleydale with a descriptive accompanying letter from pioneer missionary Nathaniel Turner, purchase. ullstrom, j. The Pacific Trading Post, Samoa, Painted from S. S. Westfalia, 1889. Oil on board. Painted by a German artist at the period when Germany’s control over Samoa was being established, purchase.

[warre, henry james] 1819-98. Auckland Harbour, Commercial Bay, October 1864 [Showing the Prison Hulk Marion/ with Maori Prisoners Taken at Rangiriri. Watercolour. The artist was Commanding Officer of the 57th Regiment in New Zealand. PURCHASE. weld, Frederick aloysius, 1823-91. Brackenfield, N.Z. 1862. Watercolour. Weld’s third home at Amberley, North Canterbury, with his wife and two oldest children in the front garden, purchase.