Showing posts with label Wellington Town Hall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wellington Town Hall. Show all posts

Saturday, September 27, 2014

New Zealand Digital Art Entropy (19-20th C)

Costume design for Pageant of Empire [Indian dancer] - Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
This costume sketch was originally designed by Mollie Rodie in 1940 for the Red Cross Pageant held in Wellington Town Hall on 18 September 1940. Mollie may have redrawn this sketch for the grand finale of the Victory Queen Carnival in Wellington Town Hall 3-5 June 1941, which featured the same pageant again. Pageants and queen carnivals were popular ways to raise money during World War II (1939-45).
Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908 :Green walking twig. New Zealand. [ca 1880] - Alexander Turnbull Library
Stick insect seen from above
Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) :Trans-Antarctic Expedition, patron H.M. the Queen. Share certificate 1956-58 ...
Certificate shows a map of Antarctica in the centre, penguins at the left, men with a ski sled at the right, and a photographic portrait of Sir Edmund Hillary below. The whole is bordered by a yellow "rope". The certificate is signed by Charles M Bowden on behalf of the Ross Sea Committee. The manuscript signatures of George Lowe and E P Hillary are at lower right
The Yellow Book - Auckland Libraries
Lane, John (Publisher), Date(s): 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897...Showing four covers of 'the Yellow Book'. I was unable to find this books digitized this time...
[Kinder, John] 1819-1903 :The old Mission House (the Revd T. Chapman's) at the Ngae, Roturua, N[ew] Z[ealan]d. Jan[ua...
Single storey thatched roof house, with an outbuilding behind and to the left, viewed through trees. A large exotic tree, possibly a willow is growing to the right of and close to the house. This mission station was moved from Mokoia Island to Te Ngae, on the eastern side of Lake Rotorua in July 1840. The Reverend Thomas Chapman ran the station for a period then later shifted to Maketu.



Vast majority of posted images are online available at the artwork section of the DigitalNZ project (link provided)


Sometimes I move from strictly “ancient manuscripts” –which is my main leitmotif in facsimilium- to almost “contemporaneous” art pieces. I discovered today the amazing project “New Zealand digital content” and for sure I’ll be back to other sections of this site...