Catalogue of Paintings by Webb's Auction House

Catalogue of Paintings

to be sold on THURSDAY 25 JULY 1985 at 2pm

ESTIMATES

As a guide for prospective purchasers the auctioneers publish · estimates for all the lots in the catalogue following each description.

Lots may be sold below or above estimates depending on the degree of competition.

ABSENTEE BIDS

If instructed, the auctioneers will bid on behalf of clients. The service is free and all bids are confidential. Lots will be bought as cheaply as the room bids allow and with regard to any reserves placed upon them by the sellers.

APPRAISALS

Appraisals are made and advice given concerning the sale of Antiques and Works of Art free of charge in all main centres in New Zealand.

VALUATIONS

Valuations for insurance, probate or family division are undertaken on either a quotation basis or a small percentage plus any travelling expenses incurred.

INSURANCE

All lots are purchased at the risk of the purchaser from the fall of the hammer. Insurance can be arranged with the Sun Alliance & London Insurance Group on an "All Risks" basis for a premium of I O'/o.

CONDITIONS OF SALE

I. The highest bidder to the purchaser, subject to the Auctioneers having a right to refuse the bidding of any person. Should any dispute arise as to the biddings, the lot in dispute to be immediately put up for sale again at the preceding bidding, or the Auctioneers may declare the purchaser.

2. No person shall advance less at a bid than a sum to be nominated by the Auctioneer and no bid shall be retracted.

3. All lots are sold subject to the right of the seller or his agent to bid or else to impose a reserve.

4. The purchaser to give his name, address and to pay down I 0 percent of the purchase money in part payment thereof. In default of any of which matters the lot or lots purchased may be immediately put up again and resold.

5. All lots are sold as shown and with all faults, imperfections, and errors to description. The Auctioneers act as agents; they have full discretion to refuse any bidding or to withdraw any lot or lots from the sale without in either case giving any reason; neither they nor the Vendor are responsible for errors of description or for genuineness or authenticity of any lot or fault or defect in it, and make no warranty whatever.

6. The lots are at the buyer's risk from the fall of the hammer and

are to be taken away at the buyer's expense, in default of which the Auctioneers will not hold themselves responsible; if the same are lost, stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole risk of the purchaser. If the lots are not cleared or paid for, they may then be sold immediately either publicly or by private treaty, without any notice being given to the defaulter.

7. Upon failure of the purchaser to comply with any of the above conditions the money deposited in part payments shall be forfeited, and the defaulter shall make good any loss arising from the resale, together with the charges and expenses in respect of both sales.

8. No goods are to be removed while selling is in progress. Receipted invoices must be produced prior to delivery of any lot. The Auctioneers reserve the right to request identification in the case of any purchaser not known to the Auctioneer who pays by cheque. Charging to credit cards will not be accepted as means of payment.

9. "No person being the purchaser of any item falling within the provisions of the Antiquities Act 1975 or the Arms Act 1958 shall be entitled to take possession of such item or to demand possession thereof from the Auctioneer unless and until such person produces to the Auctioneer a licence pursuant to the appropriate one of the two Acts referred to above."

OLD NEW ZEALAND PAINTINGS

New Zealand Colour Plate Books Maori Artefacts

Six Paintings of New Zealand Thoroughbreds

European Paintings, Prints and Drawings

to be sold on THURSDAY 25 JULY 1985 at 2pm in our Gallery Saleroom

Viewing:

Thursday & Friday July 18 and 19 9am-6pm Sunday July 21 11am-4pm Monday July 22, 9am-6pm Tuesday July 23, 9am-7pm

NB: The gallery will be open from 1Oam day of sale when viewing will be by prior arrangement only

Peter Webb Galleries Limited

Auctioneers and Appraisers

Another copy No 67/750

1 An unusual antique greenstone 13

The New Zealand Graphic & pendant of oval form The face has Descriptive two vertical incised lines down its Barraud & Travers 1877 length Avon Fine Prints

Length 7 8 cm

facsimile edition 1973 (Nat. Registration No 968) No 663/1000

2 An early 19th century bone pendant 14

Illustrations To Adventure In New carved with a stylized human face in Zealand the centre E G Wakefield

Length 13.4 cm facsimile edition 1968 (Nat. Registration No . 971) No. 5/500

3 Four 19th century sharkstooth

The following six paintings are of New Zealand earrings. Three with the top portion thoroughbred racehorses and were encased in red sealing wax. commissioned for the publication 'New Zealand Max length 4 9 cm Thoroughbreds ' by Alister Taylor , 1980 (Nat. Registrations Nos 973 , 974 , 979 , 980) with an obsidian knife 15

Craig Taylor (Nat. Registration No. 972) Sky High oil on board

4 Three antique bone cloak pins signed Max length 13 5 cm

51 x 61 cm (Nat. Registration Nos 976, 977 , 978)

Illustrated on cover

5 An antique greenstone pendant 16 Craig Taylor Length 13 9 cm Carioca (Nat. Registration No. 969) oil on board

6 signed A 19th century ear pendant of 51 x 61 cm Tangiwai greenstone . 17 Length 8 6 cm repaired

Craig Taylor (Nat. Registration No 970) Sailor's Guide oil on board

7 A kiwi feather and plaited flax fibre kit.

51 x 61 cm c.1900 18 x 25 cm 18

Craig Taylor (Nat. Registration No. 923) Russia oil on board

8 A twined kiwi feather bag with bands 51 x 61 cm of white feathers top and bottom 19 c.1900 I. Forbes Maclaren 14 x 16 cm Untitled oil on canvas

9 C.F. Goldie; His Life & Paintings signed Alister Taylor & Jan Glen 1977

40 5 x 50 5 cm in cloth case as issued No 209/1600 20 I. Forbes Mclaren Untitled

10 C.F Goldie; Prints, Drawings and oil on canvas Criticism signed . Alister Taylor & Jan Glen 1979

40 5 x 50 5 cm in cloth case as issued No 816/1600 21

Charles Meryon Nouvelle Zealande, Presquil de Banks

11 The New Zealanders Illustrated Akaroa Geo French Angus 1846

Etching 1865 with margins Reed ' s facsimile edition 1966 fine copy. Rare No 630/750 12 x 16 5 cm (sight size)

John Barr Clarke Hoyte

Blythe Fletcher View from the South Head Sydney Fishermen and Boat watercolour

inscribed and dated 1879

in brushpoint 23 x 48 cm

43 Gottfried Lindauer

The Penitent Magdalen oil on canvas Fishing Boat signed and dated 1910 gouache 61 x 51 cm

Blythe Fletcher

in brushpoint This is an earlier version of a subject that

x 35 cm Lindauer painted more than once

44 Tom Peerless Landscape

Kepler Ranges from the North End of gouache Lake Manapouri

5 x 17.5 cm

and dated 1891 in brushpoint

45 Tom Peerless Landscape with Cattle oil on board Mountain and Lake Scene

watercolour

x 42 cm signed and dated 1884 in brushpoint 35 x 59 cm

Thomas Reginald Attwood

46 Tom Peerless Mt Earnslaw oil on canvas Lake and Fisherman

Artist Unknown

Tom Peerless Maori Women performing a Greeting Milford Sound

x 37 cm

Veronica (Vera) Cummings

48 Tom Peerless Sophia after C.F. Goldie Mountain Waterfall oil on canvas watercolour

49 Tom Peerless

Vera Cummings Mountain and Lake Scene Maori Woman with Pipe watercolour

50 Blythe Fletcher

Vera Cummings Beach Scene Head of a Maori with Pipe gouache

51 Blythe Fletcher

in brushpoint

C.F. Goldie, (after) Perema te Pahau

71 Charles Tole Tuhourangi Tribe Hamurana , an impression oil on canvas oil on board

45 x 39 cm

signed

The quality of this copy of a well-known 25x30cm Goldie subject suggests a pupil like Maud

72 Berge as its possible author Ivy M. Copeland Daffodils

William Henry Raworth

watercolour

Mountain and Lake Scene with two signed in brushpoint Figures 48 x 45 cm watercolour

signed and dated 1879 in brushpoint

73 Frank Brookesmith

24 x 47 cm Southland Landscape

Illustrated watercolour

signed and dated in brushpoint

William H. Raworth 22 x 31 cm Small Lake with Mountain Range

74 Minnie F. White watercolour From Timber to Land Development 32 x 62.5 cm oil on board signed

William H. Raworth 45 x 43 cm River and Dwelling

Alfred H. Cook watercolour signed and dated in brushpoint

Victoria Lake , Hagley Park 28 x 48 cm watercolour

very faint signature discernable lower left in

66 brush point

William H. Raworth 27.5 x 39 cm Humboldt Range and Glacier

76 Lake Wakatipu from Precipice Hut

Alfred H. Cook watercolour Sumner Estuary from the Hills signed with monogram , dated 18. Mar. watercolour 1875 and titled in brushpoint signed A.H Cook and dated 1930 in pencil 28 x 60 cm 18 x 23 cm

77 Alfred H. Cook

67 William H. Raworth Landscape Study Lake and Mountain Scene watercolour watercolour 12.5 x 17 5 cm signed and dated 1873 in brushpo int 34 x 66 cm

Alfred H. Cook

William H. Raworth Landscape Study watercolour Killin, Scotland 9 x 10 cm watercolour signed and dated 1895 in brushpoint

Alfred H. Cook 34 x 65 cm Landscape Study watercolour 9 5 x 10 5 cm

69 John Weeks

Composition

80 Alfred H. Cook • oil on board Landscape Study signed watercolour 31 x 36 cm 9 5 x 13.5 cm

70 Ivy M. Copeland

Alfred H. Cook Tulips Terraces, Landscape watercolour etching signed in brushpoint signed in pencil 35 x 25 cm 13 x 18 5 cm

Lot 36

Lot 57

Lot 63

Lot 85

Lot 111

Lot 113

Lot 123

Lot 119

82 Alfred H. Cook

92 Hilda Wiseman Landscape Beside the Stockyard etching watercolour signed on plate signed in pencil 13 5 x 20.5 cm 25 x 33 cm

83 Minnie F. White Head of a Woman

93 K. Airini Vane pencil The Hermitage Mt Cook signed signed and dated 1945 in brushpo int

32 x 23 5 cm 30 x 45 5 cm

84 Ron Stenberg

Harbour View , Auckland

94 Albert Hansen watercolour Browns Bay , Paremata signed in penc il watercolour 18 5 x 24 cm signed in brushpoint 25 x 36 cm

85 Peggy Spicer Ruins of Cement Works , Warkworth oil on board

95 W.R . Cole signed Steamer with Tugs 54 x 80 cm Illustrated watercolour signed in brushpo int

86 John Papas 32 x 49 cm The Artist's Garden oil on board , triptych

96 signed Ella Spicer 30 x 55 5 cm Landscape watercolour

87 Robin White signed in brushpoint Hooper ' s Inlet 29.5 x 34 cm pencil titled , signed and dated Jan 1975 34 9 x 27 9 cm

97 Nugent Herman Welch Reproduced : Robin White New Zealand House with Slate Roof Painter, Alister Taylor 1981 p.108 watercolour

88 Robin White signed in brushpoin t 17 x 25 cm Mt Eden Landscape pencil signed

98 Adele Younghusband 40 6 x 25.4 cm Still Life Reproduced : Idem p 93 oil on board

89 Robin White signed and dated 1958 54 x 40 cm Paremata Landscape monoprint signed and dated 1969

99 Frances I. Hunt

25.4 x 21 6 cm Still Life

Reproduced : Idem p 82 -.yatercolour 40 x 35 cm

90 Peggy Spicer Seascape with Cliff Face

100 signed in brushpoint

James Turkington 35 5 x 51 cm Floral Design for Mural pencil and watercolour

91 Colin McCahon signed and dated 1942 Puketutu and Manukau 33 x 33.5 cm 3 lithographs and title page 1957 with another similar, and a penc il study of 21 5 x 26 6 cm a girl (3)

101

Hilda Wiseman

Auckland East Coast Bays

102

111

John Charles Veitch

The Port of Wellington at Dusk watercolour

on canvas signed and dated in brushpoint

21.5 X 24 cni

Thomas Arthur McCormack

Sunlight

watercolour

103

x 100 cm Illustrated

112 Charles Decimus Barraud

The Huka Falls signed in ink watercolour

13.5 x 17 cm

Thomas Arthur McCormack

The Estuary, Collingwood

watercolour c 1929

104

signed C.D B and dated 1878 17 x 24 cm

William George Baker

Wanganui River signed in brushpoint

on canvas 29 x 36.5 cm titled and signed

x 88 cm

Thomas Arthur McCormack Illustrated At the Phone

wash drawing

William James Percival signed in ink Humbolt Range 18 5 x 11.5 cm watercolour signed and dated 1893 in brushpoint

105 Thomas Arthur McCormack 36 x 49 cm

signed in brushpoint

William Joseph -Wadham 23 5 x 18 5 cm

Landscape and Mountain Stream watercolour

106 Thomas Arthur McCormack signed in brushpoint

x 34 cm Estuary and Sky watercolour

116 W.S. Wachop

Sout~ Island Mountain Landscape

107

James McIntosh Madden

South Island Landscape oil on board (monochrome) signed and dated 1901 117 J. Elder Moultray 44 x 67 cm A Storm on the Teremaki River oil on board

108 James McIntosh Madden

5 x 46 cm

South Island Landscape oil on board (monochrome) 118 J. Elder Moultray signed and dated 1904

Junction of the Otira and Teremakau

5 x 54.5 cm Rivers

James McIntosh Madden

South Island Landscape

x 45 cm

110 James McIntosh Madden

5 x 45 5 cm

119 J.W. Carrington

The Maori Neck from Outer Beach

Stewart Island

South Island River Landscape oil on canvas watercolour signed and dated 1905 signed in brushpoint 39 5 x 74 5 cm 27 x 37 5 cm Illustrated

120 R.M.S . .

Scows Discharging Timber, Mechanics

129 Elizabeth Kelly

The Estuary from the Port Hills, Bay, Auckland Christchurch oil on canvas c 1890 watercolour

signed R.M S signed in brushpoint 35 x 52 cm 30 x 40 cm

121 J. de Friest

130 R.H. Wilson

North Island Mountain and River Caswell Sound Scene oil on board oil on canvas signed signed 37 x 49 cm 80 x 120 cm

122 J. Charlton Edgar

131 Laurence William Wilson Mangere Landscape 'Art Club Sketch' Seascape watercolour oil on board signed in brushpoint signed L.W.W 21 x 25 cm 17 x 29 cm

123 Robert Pheney

132 Lawrence William Wilson Landscape with Valley and Figures Sunrise at Reservation Inlet Traversing Track watercolour watercolour

titled and signed in brushpoint signed and dated 1835 in brushpoint 17 x 27 cm

52 x 73.5 cm

Illustrated

133 Lawrence William Wilson Safe Cove Lake Te Anau

124 R. Pheney oil on board

North Island Landscape titled and signed watercolour 19 5 x 29 cm

signed and dated 1908 in brushpoint 32 x 44 5 cm

134

Laurence William Wilson A View of Timaru

125 Cecil Kelly watercolour On the Banks of the Avon

title inscribed , signed and dated 1883 in oil on board brushpoint signed 19 5 x 33 cm 40 x 50 cm

135 Roland Hipkins

126 Charles Henry Howorth Autumn Morning - From Te AwaMilford Sound Showing Mitre Peak Napier and Pembroke Peak watercolour signed in brushpoint signed in brushpoint 27 x 55 cm 31.5 x 38 cm

127 Charles Henry Howorth

136 E.W. Christmas An Akaroa Valley Poplars by Lake oil on board oil on board

signed signed E.W C 25 x 35 cm 20 x 14 cm

128 Sydney Lough Thompson

137 William Allan Bollard

South Canterbury Landscape A Bush Road oil on board c.191 0 oil on board

signed S.L.T. signed 28 x 45 cm 59 x 75 cm

Johannes Theodorus Schonk b 1889

Still Life

Bethers

Edna Clarke Hall 1879-1979

Provenance: The Redfern Gallery, London 139 Early 19th Century English School

Armfield Sheltering from a Storm

in Landscape

18th Century British Scho~I

Family of Charles the First

H. Glover After van Dyke

Herbert Schmalz fl. 1879-1918

Cambell L. Mellon Mary Receiving Succor After

T. Rowlandson

Vittorio Savigni

Seascape and a River Landscape

W. Robert Johnson

156 19th Century Australian School

Sydney Heads watercolour 28 x 40 cm

157 J. Swinton Diston Landscape with Farm Houses watercolour signed in brushpoint 16 5 x 25 cm

158 Ramon Horsfield Early Morning , Thornton Victoria oil on canvas on board signed

44 x 59 5 cm

159 Allan W. Seaby The Needles, Isle of Wight woodblock print. No. 87/100 signed 17 x 20 cm

160 S. Rouse Portrait of a Gentleman oil pastel and charcoal signed and dated 1842 32 x 22 cm

161 R. H. Radford Streetscene watercolour signed twice and dated 1946 27 5 x 26 cm

162 William Collins R.A. 1788-1847 Beach with Children watercolour 17 5 x 26 cm

163 Fortesque Francis Croft Huddlestone d 1922 Clark Valley watercolour titled , signed F F C.H. and dated 1894 in brushpoint 30 x 45 cm

164 A. Harrison Seascape with Boat watercolour signed 12 5 x 25 cm

165 J. Brownlien Landscape oil on board signed 45 x 60 cm

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