Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 28, 1 January 1995, Page 102

Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

A Selective List of Acquisitions, July 1994 to June 1995 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 'Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection', Turnbull Library Record 27(1994), 103-04. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included; photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded. artist unknown. [Soldier Asleep in a Whare, Being Watched Over by a Maori Woman. Between 1845 and 1865 J Watercolour. A rare interior domestic view of a young soldier, being tenderly watched by a young Maori woman as he sleeps, purchase. Alexander, james edward, 1803-85. Proposed Maori Rangers, 1861. Watercolour. A Zouave-type uniform designed by Colonel Alexander of the 14th Regiment. Two Maori men are shown modelling the uniform against a New Zealand landscape background, purchase. aubrey, Christopher. Ford, Jacob's River, Wrey's Bush [Southland], 1887. Watercolour. A team of horses and a covered wagon along with a man on horseback and his dog, crossing the swollen Aparima River, purchase.

backhouse, john Philemon, 1845-1908. [Pink Terrace] and [White Terrace ca. 1880]. Two oils on card. A pair of oils, postcard size, possibly painted for the tourist trade, donation: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [beechey, Frederick william], 1796-1856. [Landing in Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island, December 1825] Watercolour. Very similar to an engraving in F. W. Beechy's Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific ... (London, 1831), but possibly showing the crew returning to HMS Blossom, rather than landing at Pitcairn. purchase. bowring, Walter armiger, 1874-1931. [Ten Press Portraits of Notable New Zealanders] 1900-1903. Ten chromolithographs, mostly of Christchurch identities, donation: Mrs Molly Cameron, Masterton. butler, Margaret, 1883-1947. [Bust of Architect William Meek Page] 1936. Plaster bust. A life-size portrait of Wellington architect W. M. Page, donated by his daughter. donation: Miss Kirsty Page, Dunedin. drummond-fish, g., fl. 1906-38. [Anzac Bay ... Looking towards Imbros] 1915 and [Anzac Camp, Gallipoli, 1915]. Two watercolours. Detailed views at Gallipoli showing the Anzac camp at breakfast-time and the surrounding area, purchase. eastman, david, d. ca. 1972. [Portrait of Olive Smuts-Kennedy] 1969. Oil on board. Life-size portrait of a noted Wellington local body politician, donation: Mrs Olive Smuts-Kennedy, Waikanae. flint, c. w., fl. 1881. Wharekauri in an Early Stage of Cultivation, Chatham Islands, New Zealand, 1881. Pencil and watercolour. A rare view of the homestead and outbuildings of a pastoral run in the Chathams, the property of Edward Chudleigh. The artist's surname is not clear and could be Hunt, rather than Flint, purchase. furkert, Frederick william, 1876-1949. [Public Works Department Camps at Ohakune, ca. 1906, during the Completion of the Main Trunk Line] Two oils on board and on tin. Details of PWD camps in dense bush, painted by the engineer in charge of the completion of the Main Trunk Line, donation: Miss Ursula Furkert, Wellington. gully, john, 1819—88. [Trafalgar Street South, Nelson, Looking towards Christ Church Cathedral] 1885. Watercolour. An early view of Nelson with established trees and several identifiable buildings, purchase. harrison. [Portrait of William Swainson Engaged in Ornithological Research, ca. 1836] Oil on canvas. The artist of this portrait is referred to by contemporary family reports only as 'Mr Harrison', and his further identity is unknown. The portrait, painted in England, shows scientist and early Hutt Valley settler William Swainson at work on an ornithological publication, purchase.

hoyte, john clarke, 1835-1913. [Miners' Slab Huts in a Bush Clearing, Coromandel District, between 1854 and 1867] Watercolour. A detailed view of early settlers' temporary residences, purchase. igglesden, Charles moore, 1832-1920. [View Looking from Captain Sharpe's Garden, The Terrace, Wellington] Dec. 1868. Watercolour. A splendid and detailed view of early Wellington from Flagstaff Hill, incorporating the Clifton Terrace Boys' School, St Mary's Hill Street Basilica, and 'The Grange' in Wadestown, along with a view along Lambton Quay and out to the Hutt Valley. PURCHASE. lee-johnson, eric, 1908-93. [Charlesßrasch, 1951; Self-Portrait, 19405; MauriceDuggan, 19505; Rex Fairburn, 1945] Two ink, one pastel, one charcoal. Portraits of the artist's friends, writers Charles Brasch, Maurice Duggan, and Rex Fairburn, together with an early self-portrait, purchase. lodge, nevile Sidney, 1918-89. [Archive of Original Cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941-88] 3678 ink drawings. A significant donation to the New Zealand Cartoon Archive of a lifetime's work by one of New Zealand's best-known cartoonists, donation: Mrs N. Lodge, Wellington. mathews, roydon c, 18867-1973. 'Speak up laddie!', 1930 [Caricature of Alexander M. Burns, General Manager, Christchurch Press]. Ink and Chinese white. Drawn by a Christchurch journalist, this portrait includes signatures of senior journalists on the Press, purchase. norman, edmund, 1820-75. [Waikato or Wairarapa Settlement, 1840 s or 1850s] Ink and wash. One of New Zealand's most careful and accurate early surveyor-artists drew this as-yet-unidentified scene of a river plain with low hills, cabbage-tree and flax, a European house, and part of a Maori pa. purchase. Oliver, richard aldworth, 1811-89. [Three Maori portraits, ca. 1850] Three watercolours. Portraits of Rangi-Hira, the wife of Rangihaeata, and her family; 'Halfcastes at Pomare's Pa, Bay of Islands, 1851', an original for the lithograph published in Oliver' sSketchesinNewZealand (London, 1852); and'TePaki, a Maori Warrior', purchase.