Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

Turnbull Library Record, Volume 30, 1 January 1997, Page 100

Notes on Accessions to the Drawings and Prints Collection

A Selective List of Acquisitions, July 1996 to June 1997

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. Only original works and significant engravings and prints are included; photomechanical reproductions recently published are excluded.

artist unknown. [Homestead in the Rai Valley, ca 1870] Watercolour. An isolated farm homestead surrounded by cleared hillsides, beside the Rai Stream, on the road to French Pass. The watercolour may be the work of Marlborough surveyor Henry Handiside (1831-1877). purchase. artist unknown. New Zealand Company’s ship, for New Plymouth, Nelson, Wellington and Otago. Plan of the accommodations of the splendid ship Kelso. London, 1849. Engraving with letterpress. A rare ship plan showing the poop and cabin accommodation for one of New Zealand’s early immigrant ships. Handwritten annotations link the plan to a mutiny aboard the ship in 1850, on a later voyage from England to Hong Kong, purchase.

artist unknown. Purple waterhen [pukeko]; Rail [weka]; Fantail fly-catcher. London, J. Johnson, 1787. Three hand-coloured engravings. Very early engravings of New Zealand bird specimens, published as illustrations for v 01.2 of The Natural History of Birds (London, James Johnson, 1791). PURCHASE.

artist unknown. White Island and old Forbury house and stables in April 1857. Watercolour. White Island off St Clair Beach (formerly Forbury), Dunedin, forms the background to a depiction of an early homestead and its surrounding farmland, now part of Dunedin City. Given to the Library with a watercolour of Ohinemutu, ca 1900 by Edward William Payton, donation: Dr Margaret Neave, Wellington.

brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865. Church of England [and] The Parsonage, Wellington. Engraved by Elenry Melville after watercolours by S.C. Brees. London, 1847. 2 hand-coloured engravings. St Paul’s Anglican church in Wellington, on its original site, behind Parliament, along with its associated parsonage. Plates from Brees’s New Zealand Illustrated, donation: Mr John Gimson, Wellington.

bromhead, peter, b. 1933. [Original cartoons from the 1970 s and 1980s] Approx. 5,000 ink cartoons. Cartoon originals prepared for daily publication in the Auckland Star, along with a small number of unpublished originals, donation: Mr Peter Bromhead, Auckland. crozier, Robert, fl. 1854-1882. [Portrait of Ellen Monkhouse] October 31st 1862. Chalk drawing. Seated portrait, drawn in Manchester, before Ellen Monkhouse emigrated with her husband T.S. Monkhouse to New Zealand, donation: Mr Walter Cook, Wellington.

gibb, annie Mildred, 1888-1963. [William Menzies Gibb, ca 1920] Pastel. A portrait of a well-known Christchurch artist, by his granddaughter, acquired with a portrait in oils, artist unknown, of William Menzies Gibb’s mother, Marian Menzies Gibb. PURCHASE.

haughton & mair, architects. [Architectural plans from the archives ofßulleyment Fortune Architects, 19205-19605] Approx. 200 architectural plans. Plans of commercial and private buildings, Wellington Region, mostly under the company name of Haughton Son & Mair, but also V. P. Haughton, Kelly & Mair, Haughton & McKeon and Chrichton McKay & Haughton. An addition to a substantial previous donation of earlier plans, with more to come, donation: Mr Alan Bulleyment, Wellington.

holmwood, john, 1910-1987. Shop, Wellington Terrace [1930s or 19405] Etching. Terrace Stores Ltd, built in 1931 at 151 The Terrace, and belonging to G.A.F. (Peter) Field, purchase. lonsdale, neil, 1907-1989. [Archive of cartoons, 1955-1977] 425 ink cartoons. Original editorial cartoons, prepared for publication in the Auckland Star and greatly enriching the Library’s cartoon holdings for the 1950 s and 60s. donation: Mr Anthony Ellison, Auckland.

muntz, Charles adolphus, 1834-1907. [Horse in corral with barn, trees and mountains, Nelson Region, ca 1870] and [Cattle grazing on a river plain, Nelson Region, ca 1870] 2 watercolours. Rural scenes, showing farming and land clearance, by an artist who farmed close to the Nelson Lakes area, purchase. nairn, francis edward, 1819-1910. [Bullock dray being driven along a track through New Zealand bush, ca 1867] Watercolour. Purchased as an unidentified work, this watercolour has subsequently been identified as the work of surveyor, artist and goldminer F.E. Naim, and is likely to show a densely-bushed track on the road to Collingwood, Nelson Region, purchase.

nicholson, maria, fl. 1859-1862. [House in Nelson tenanted by Bishop Hobhouse, Christ Church Cathedral and a view of Nelson, 1860 or 1861] 9 ink drawings. Seven drawings of Bishop Hobhouse’s residence and garden in Grattan Street, Nelson, with considerable detail explained on an accompanying plan, with a drawing of Nelson cathedral and a distant view of Nelson township. The drawings are either the work of Mrs Mary Hobhouse, or of the Hobhouse family governess, Maria Nicholson, donation: Mrs A.D. Payne, Dorset, England.

norman, edmund, 1820-1875. Township of Nelson [lßsos or 1860s] Pencil & wash. View from Britannia Heights looking over the town, with Washington Valley in the foreground. Each house is carefully recorded by the meticulous surveyor-artist. PURCHASE. pottier, h.j.a. Souvenirs de Taiti, 1854-1856. Sketchbook. Pencil drawings of Papeete and life in Tahiti along with scenes of shipboard life, the work of a French sailor, purchase.

swainson, william, 1789-1855. Newcastle Light[house] and Nobby Island, N.S. W. Aug. 1851, and Long Beach near Newcastle, N.S. W. [lßsl] 2 pencil drawings. Two Australian landscape drawings by New Zealand naturalist William Swainson. bequest (donation): Dr John Eaton Turner, Wick, Scotland.

tait, Robert, 1830-1926. [Plans for a Lower Hutt Anglican church and for the architect’s house in Harold Street, Kelburn, 1870 s to 1890s] 17 ink & watercolour drawings. Unusually early architectural plans of two buildings. donation: Ms Catherine Linton, Virginia, United States of America. walker, malcolm, b. 1950. [Original cartoons, 1977-1983 and 1990-1992] 92 ink cartoons. Originals prepared for publication in the Sunday News and The Independent, donation: Mr Malcolm Walker, Auckland.

weld, Frederick aloysius, 1823-1897. [Lyttelton with immigration barracks and settlers’ houses, 1852 or 1853] Watercolour. A detailed view of early Lyttelton, looking north-west, with John Robert Godley’s house and other houses. The attribution to Weld is on the basis of stylistically similar views of Lyttelton held by Canterbury Museum, purchase.