• Title
  Sketches in New Zealand, 1845 / by Rev. Philip Peters Agnew
• Creator
  Philip Peters Agnew
• Call number
  PXA 1662
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1845
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Drawings
• Reference code
  1014768
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  23 drawings - watercolour, pen & ink and pencil : ;
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Reverend Philip Peters Agnew was born in Ross, Scotland in 1813. He studied at Oxford University before arriving in Sydney in 1844. He spent 1845 studying at St. John's College, Auckland, New Zealand. He returned to Sydney in 1846 and was appointed Chaplain to Sydney Gaol. In 1847 he was ordained Deacon and served at St. Andrew's Cathedral. From 1848 to 1856 he was Rector of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Carcoar,. In 1856 he was appointed Chaplain to Sydney Gaol and Immigration Chaplain. He later became a missionary mainly in Western NSW and Northern Victoria. He returned to England in 1881 and died ca. 1888.
  Reference : MLMSS 4194
• Scope and Content
  Drawings include portraits of Maori and views.
  1. Ko Reihana Pihanga Oct: 16
  2. Mr. Agnew's House at Purewa
  3. St Thomas', Tamaki
  4. Henare Taratoa Oct 17
  5. A Native Potatoe Store
  6. Marsh's house, Purewa Oct 18th 1845
  7. Paihui Chapel
  8. [Skull and lighthouse]
  9. Native school and the barn Oct 20th
  10. Natural Bastion near Auckland
  11. N.Z. Fern
  12. [Boats]
  13. [Tiki]
  14. Island of St Paul
  15. A Student's Maori Canoe, running into a mangrove bush
  16. [A Maori design]
  17. Ko te Hantapu
  18. Tareha
  19. Hamuera Takirau Oct 23
  20. Ro Miti, a Waikato native
  21. Eliza. Our neighbour
  22. Ko Rawe. A Tattoo'd female
  23. A tree fern. - "ponga" Oct. 15
  
  Forms part of Reverend Philip Peters Agnew papers, 1837-1883, with genealogical notes, 1982 at MLMSS 4194
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: creator died before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Pic.Acc. Update Project - Information transferred from Pic.Acc.5537 as part of the eRecords Project, 2012-2013
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1025610
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings are titled and four are signed "P.P.A."
• Subject
  Maori (New Zealand people).
  Women, Maori
  
• Topic
  portraits
  churches
  chapels
  canoes
  views
  ministers of religion
  tree ferns
  
• Place
  New Zealand
  St. Paul Island
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE496195

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