Untitled [Holnicote]
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0782
Date: 01/07/09
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0782
Artist: Acland Family
Date of work: c.1880
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper
Brief description: Landscape, Holnicote House, Mt Peel homestead and gardens.
Additional Information: JBA Acland wrote in his journal in 1856 ‘I hope, if I live, to do my share to reproduce England in this southern hemisphere’. Accordingly Holnicote, the station homestead at Mt Peel, was designed in England, and later planted with a very English garden. The bricks and timber for the house however, were all produced on the station. Construction began in 1865, and the house was built by Ben Ede of Ashburton along with John Fitzgerald of Arowhenua.
Artist: Acland Family
Date of work: c.1880
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper
Brief description: Landscape, Holnicote House, Mt Peel homestead and gardens.
Additional Information: JBA Acland wrote in his journal in 1856 ‘I hope, if I live, to do my share to reproduce England in this southern hemisphere’. Accordingly Holnicote, the station homestead at Mt Peel, was designed in England, and later planted with a very English garden. The bricks and timber for the house however, were all produced on the station. Construction began in 1865, and the house was built by Ben Ede of Ashburton along with John Fitzgerald of Arowhenua.
Interior of Sitting Room, Malvern Hills Station, Canterbury, New Zealand, July 1858
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/1670
Date: 01/07/09
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/1670
Artist: [Henry Harper]
Date of work: 1858
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Pencil and watercolour on white paper. Cut and mounted on thin cream card.
Dimensions: Actual - 238 x 213 mm
Additional information: Bishop H.J. Harper bought shares in Malvern Station around 1858, and appointed his son Charles as manager. His other son Henry later used Malvern as a base for his work ministering to the station families in the area. The interior view suggests the house was prefabricated, and shows the colonial love for rich red fabrics which enlivened their houses. Anna Peterson notes in ‘New Zealanders at Home’ that the furniture in the room was typical of middle class interiors at this time, being a mix of items imported from ‘home’ alongside makeshift shelves and homemade cupboards.
Artist: [Henry Harper]
Date of work: 1858
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Pencil and watercolour on white paper. Cut and mounted on thin cream card.
Dimensions: Actual - 238 x 213 mm
Additional information: Bishop H.J. Harper bought shares in Malvern Station around 1858, and appointed his son Charles as manager. His other son Henry later used Malvern as a base for his work ministering to the station families in the area. The interior view suggests the house was prefabricated, and shows the colonial love for rich red fabrics which enlivened their houses. Anna Peterson notes in ‘New Zealanders at Home’ that the furniture in the room was typical of middle class interiors at this time, being a mix of items imported from ‘home’ alongside makeshift shelves and homemade cupboards.
Untitled [Mt Peel Station]
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0788
Date: 01/07/09
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0788
Artist: [Leonard Stowe], 1837 - 1920
Date of work: 1873
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper.
Brief description: Landscape, View of Mt Peel Station and Upper Rangitata.
Dimensions: Actual - 221 x 347 mm
Additional information: The Church at Mount Peel Station was built in 1868. Named ‘The Church of the Holy Innocents’ in memory of the four young children buried there between 1864-1869, it was designed by William Brassington and constructed using locally quarried stone. Inside the church is a plaque in memory to Acland’s life long friend George Tripp. The church was also consecrated by Emily Acland’s father, Bishop Harper in 1869.
Artist: [Leonard Stowe], 1837 - 1920
Date of work: 1873
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper.
Brief description: Landscape, View of Mt Peel Station and Upper Rangitata.
Dimensions: Actual - 221 x 347 mm
Additional information: The Church at Mount Peel Station was built in 1868. Named ‘The Church of the Holy Innocents’ in memory of the four young children buried there between 1864-1869, it was designed by William Brassington and constructed using locally quarried stone. Inside the church is a plaque in memory to Acland’s life long friend George Tripp. The church was also consecrated by Emily Acland’s father, Bishop Harper in 1869.
Untitled [Menu Card]
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0765
Date: 01/07/09
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0765
Artist: Acland Family
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper
Brief description: Menu and postcard
Artist: Acland Family
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Watercolour on paper
Brief description: Menu and postcard
Untitled
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0764
Date: 01/07/09
Macmillan Brown Library - Te Puna Rakahau o Macmillan Brown, University of Canterbury, reference: UC/MBL/0764
Artist: Acland Family
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Pencil and wash on paper
Brief description: Caricature, group portrait, woman and man walking, being splattered by mud from horses hooves.
Artist: Acland Family
Collection: Macmillan Brown Library Sub Collection
Media: Pencil and wash on paper
Brief description: Caricature, group portrait, woman and man walking, being splattered by mud from horses hooves.