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Name/Title

Etching, Solar Plate "Taranaki Pa Sites"

Solar plate etching in black ink on white paper. Composition consists of 5 long plates placed one below the other depicting landscape views of pa sites on the coastal road between Pungarehu to Warea road including Mt. Taranaki/Egmont. Some trees and power lines included. Titled, signed and dated below.

Accession No

TM2003.358

Name/Title

"Coastal Pa Sites - Taranaki"

Multi-coloured screenprint on paper composed of 3 long panoramic views of pa sites located between Pungarehu and Warea on the coastal road including Mt. Taranaki/Egmont.

Accession No

TM2003.357

Name/Title

"NZ Puff Ball"

An unframed botanical work of oil on canvas. Depicts a specimen of NZ puff ball. Predominant colours - cream coloured puff ball image with an orange coloured background.

Accession No

PA2016.004

Name/Title

"Banks' Florilegium: Part XXII, New Zealand (plates 447-469)"

Part XXII (22) of Banks' Florilegium containing 23 colour prints relating to New Zealand, printed from the original copperplate engravings in 1986 by Alecto Historical Editions in association with The British Museum (Natural History). The prints illustrate plants collected on Captain James Cook’s first voyage round the world in "H.M.S. Endeavour" (1768-1771). The specimens were gathered and classified by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.C., P.R.S., and Dr Daniel Solander, F.R.S., and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson.

Accession No

PA2011.113

Name/Title

"Banks' Florilegium: Part XXI, New Zealand (plates 424-446)"

Part XXI (21) of Banks' Florilegium containing 23 colour prints relating to New Zealand, printed from the original copperplate engravings in 1986 by Alecto Historical Editions in association with The British Museum (Natural History). The prints illustrate plants collected on Captain James Cook’s first voyage round the world in "H.M.S. Endeavour" (1768-1771). The specimens were gathered and classified by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart., K.B., P.C., P.R.S., and Dr Daniel Solander, F.R.S., and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson.

Accession No

PA2011.112

Name/Title

"Titoki"

Woodcut print depicting the Titoki (Alectryon excelsus) plant with leaves and berries enclosed in capsules. Rendered in green, ochre, black and red paint.

Accession No

PA2008.096

Name/Title

"Karaka"

Woodcut print depicting four leaves of the Karaka (cornyocarpus laevigatus) plant with eight berries. Rendered in green and yellow paint.

Accession No

PA2008.095

Name/Title

"Poroporo"

Colour woodblock print by John Lysaght Moore titled "Poroporo" 19/ up to 500. Depicts the purple flower and three fingered leaves of the Poroporo plant.

Accession No

A85.205

Name/Title

"Mt Egmont Buttercup Ranunculus nivicolus"

Watercolour depicting a Mt. Egmont Buttercup in bud and blossom. The background shows a mountain ridge with traces of snow and tussock vegetation.

Accession No

A85.198

Name/Title

"Humphries Castle"

View of Humphries Castle, Mount Taranaki, an outcrop of rock formed by lava flow.

Accession No

A75.643

Name/Title

"A Totara Top, alt. 3300 ft on Mount Egmont"

Ink drawing of a totara tree with moss, fern and lichen growing over the trunk.

Accession No

A75.583

Name/Title

"Moss, Lichen and Fern Vine"

Black ink drawing of a section of tree trunk covered with moss, lichen and fern vine.

Accession No

A75.582

Name/Title

"Renewing the Youth"

Black ink drawing of a totara tree and surrounding bush. The tree is drawn in higher detail and with thicker lines.

Accession No

A75.581

Name/Title

Untitled (Bush Scene)

Etching depicting a New Zealand bush scene.

Accession No

A75.577

Name/Title

Untitled (cabbage tree)

Lithograph depicting a cabbage tree, flax bush and assorted low lying plants. There is a faint hill in the background with a second cabbage tree.

Accession No

A75.576

Name/Title

Untitled (cabbage tree)

Lithograph printed onto thin paper depicting a cabbage tree, flax bush and assorted low lying plants.

Accession No

A75.574

Name/Title

Untitled

Watercolour with black ink details depicting the base of a tree on Mount Taranaki. The tree is covered in an epipytic vine (probably rata).

Accession No

A70.083

Name/Title

Untitled (Trees in the Moonlight)

Lithograph on thin, opaque rice paper of a line of trees on a hill in the midground and a low moon in the background.

Accession No

A70.082

Name/Title

Untitled (Tree)

Lithograph of a large tree and a much smaller tree in an empty landscape scene.

Accession No

A70.081

Name/Title

"The End of the Trail, North Egmont Track"

Mountain bush scene with a trail at centre. Trees and other vegetation line the trail.

Accession No

A70.071

Name/Title

"The Picnic Paddock - the Vale of Huatoki looking N.W."

Ink and pencil landscape drawing with the Huatoki river at centre, bridge, grazing animals and two dwellings on the hills to the right.

Accession No

A70.029

Name/Title

"The Battle of the Trunks"

Black ink drawing of a rimu tree covered in the epiphytic rata vine and surrounding bush.

Accession No

A66.709

Name/Title

"Lawyer vine, Mt. Egmont"

Black ink drawing on paper depicting the end of a lawyer vine branch.

Accession No

A66.696

Name/Title

"Brachyglottis repanda"

Unframed oil on canvas. Predominant colours are small white flowers, and autumn coloured leaves.

Accession No

A65.898

Name/Title

"Veronica koromiko"

An unframed botanical work of oil on canvas. Depicts a specimen of hebe. Predominant colours - yellows, green, cream, mauve, burgundy, and orange.

Accession No

A65.879