Frances Emma Harris. ‘Ascent of Mount Egmont. March 11th 1879.’ MS journal interleaved with 10 watercolour and ink sketches. And ‘Notes on Frances Harris’ by Emily Harris, Nelson, 12 June 1898, loose pages found in journal. Briant Papers.
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Front Cover
Loose watercolour inside journal
‘Taranaki or A lone peak’. Watercolour painting of Mt Taranaki. Card, not bound or pasted in, signed ‘Frances E. Harris’
Verso of watercolour. “An original sketch / Printed by Frances E Harris”
‘Ascent of Mount Egmont. March 11th 1879.’ Title page.
Page 1 (blank) and 2 (handwriting)
Page 3 (handwriting) and 4 (blank)
Page 5 (watercolour) and 6 (handwriting). ‘Puriri and Hinau trees’. Watercolour painting.
Page 7 and 8 (handwriting double spread)
Page 9 (handwriting) and 10 (ink sketch). ‘View from the ranges looking south’. Black and white water colour sketch.
Page 11 (blank) and 12 (handwriting)
Page 13 (handwriting) and 14 (sketch). ‘View of Mount Egmont from the ranges.’ Black and white ink sketch. Conical mountain central and surrounded by water or swamp, tops of trees in the foreground.
Page 15 (blank) and 16 (handwriting)
Page 17 and 18 (handwriting double spread)
Page 19 and 20 (handwriting double spread)
Page 21 and 22 (handwriting double spread)
Page 23 and 24 (handwriting double spread)
Page 25 (handwriting) and 26 (blank)
Page 27 and 28. ‘View from Henry’s clearing of Kaitaki ranges, Omata, and the Sugar Loaves’. Double page spread. Ink / black and white / sepia.
Page 29 (blank) and 30 (handwriting)
Page 31 and 32 (handwriting double spread)
Page 33 and 34 (handwriting double spread)
Page 35 and 36 (handwriting double spread)
Page 37 and 38 (handwriting double spread)
Page 39 (handwriting) and 40 (sketch). ‘Top of Mount Egmont from the camping ground’. Pencil sketch.
Page 41 (blank) and 42 (handwriting)
Page 43 (handwriting) and 44 (sketch). ‘Rata Stump’. Pencil sketch
Page 45 (blank) and 46 (handwriting)
Page 47 and 48 (handwriting double spread)
Page 49 (handwriting) and 50 (sketch). ‘Pines and Rata trees.’ Ink sketch. Black, white, sepia
Page 51 (watercolour) and 52 (blank). ‘View of Ruapehu from the Sugar loaf’. Full colour watercolour
Page 53 (blank) and 54 (cedar sample)
Page 55 (blank) and end page
Back Cover
Loose notes in journal. Emily Cumming Harris, Notes on Frances Emma Harris. Nelson, 12 June 1898.
