A Want Supplied: Emily Harris Floral Autograph At Home Book 1903
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book (Wahlenbergia gracilis?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Front cover, hand-drawn title and artist’s name in green and gold, plus Wahlenbergia Gracilis (harebell) printed or painted red.
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Emily Cumming Harris. Wahlenbergia gracilis. Undated. Watercolour 260 x 370mm. Turnbull. B-018-017. (A clump of small white flowers against a brown background). https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22839813
Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand Mountain Flora. Flowers from Mount Egmont. 1. Ranunculus pinguis. 2. Fostera [sic] tenella. 3. Celmisia longifolia. 4. Wahlenbergia gracilis. 5. Lobelia. Shows group of flowers (named in accompanying text) growing in foreground, with Mount Taranaki in right distance. Turnbull. E-001-q-006. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22878573
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2a.Emily Cumming Harris. At Home (Celmisia, prostrate daisies?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book,[1903]. Small image bottom left. ‘At Home’ appears in place of ‘Monday.’
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand flowers, 1900. Celmisia sp. Watercolour on grey paper, 293 x 220 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album. Turnbull. E-790-q-021 (Shows white flowers and serrated leaves of mountain daisies or tikumu.).
2b. Emily Cumming Harris. Monday (xx). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right.
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3a. Emily Cumming Harris. Tuesday (Veronica macrantha, large-flowered hebe?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Small image bottom left.
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand Mountain Flora. Veronica macrantha. Geum uniflora. Small trees and flowers on mountain slopes. Shows these two species in flower growing in foreground around inset monotone landscape of plants in hill setting. Turnbull. E-001-q-016. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23246159
3b. Emily Cumming Harris. Tuesday (Rāta or pōhutukawa). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right.
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand flowers, 1900. Pohutukawa. Watercolour on grey paper, 282 x 214 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album. Turnbull. E-790-q-003 (Shows a sprig of pohutukawa in flower.)
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4a. Emily Cumming Harris. Wednesday (xx). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Small image bottom left.
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4b. Emily Cumming Harris. Wednesday (xx). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right. The lettering for ‘Wednesday’ sits overtop a white banner, which has very swirly flourishes on the edge. (CFD)
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5a. Emily Cumming Harris. Thursday (Native lobelia?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Small image bottom left.
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand Mountain Flora. Flowers from Mount Egmont. 1. Ranunculus pinguis. 2. Fostera [sic] tenella. 3. Celmisia longifolia. 4. Wahlenbergia gracilis. 5. Lobelia. Shows group of flowers (named in accompanying text) growing in foreground, with Mount Taranaki in right distance. Turnbull. E-001-q-006. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22878573
5b. Emily Cumming Harris. Thursday (Clematis indivisa). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right.
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand flowers, 1900. Clematis indivisa. Watercolour on green paper, 271 x 191 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album. Turnbull. E-790-q-006 (Shows a sprig of clematis indivisa (clematis paniculata) in flower.)
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6a. Emily Cumming Harris. Friday (xx). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Small image bottom left.
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6b. Emily Cumming Harris. Friday (Mānuka – Leptospermum scoparium?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right. There are 13 mānuka flowers within a rectangular box that contains the word ‘Friday’ in a beautiful scripty font, with a few flowers tumbling over the edges. The flowers are far more detailed than the two oil paintings Galpin 1906 and Nelson 1909, with the stamens in each flower clearly delineated. They seem designed to fill the background of the box, not drawn as a sprig or a whole branch. (CFD)
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7a. Emily Cumming Harris. Saturday (xx). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Small image bottom left.
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7b. Emily Cumming Harris. Saturday (Rhabdothamnus solandri – New Zealand gloxinia?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right. For the day marked ‘Saturday’, there is a set of circles set in the top-left of the image. The plants are laid overtop the circle, and the swirly lettering ‘SATURDAY’ is laid on top of the plants. (CFD)
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Emily Cumming Harris. Rhabdothamnus solandri (N. Z. hibiscus). Undated. Watercolour, no dimensions. Turnbull. B-018-018. (A branchlet of rhabdothamnus solandri, (matata or New Zealand gloxina), in flower This shrub is normally known as New Zealand gloxinia, not as New Zealand hibiscus as suggested in the artist’s title. The New Zealand hibiscus is hibiscus trionum.) https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23019242
Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand flowers, 1900. Hibiscus. Watercolour on white paper, 286 x 220 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album. Turnbull. E-790-q-009 (Shows a sprig of taurepo or New Zealand gloxinia with orange flowers.)
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8a. Emily Cumming Harris. End page (Hoheria angustifolia – narrow-leaved lacebark?). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image left?
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Emily Cumming Harris. New Zealand flowers, 1900. Hoheria populnea. Lacebark. Watercolour on grey paper, 281 x 218 mm, stuck to page of hardbound album. Turnbull. E-790-q-007 (Shows a sprig of lacebark with white flowers.)
8b. Emily Cumming Harris. End page (Convolvulus sepium). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Large image right. The flowers sit within a circle, and running diagonally behind the circle is a light-coloured watercolour band. Each edge of the diagonal band fades to a pattern, which looks like isobars on a weather map. Very subtle, but also deliberate. (CFD)
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Emily Cumming Harris. Untitled (Supplejack vine with red berries and white-flowering convolvulus). Undated. Watercolour, 580 X 390mm. Cranstone collection. (Framed, no mat, signed ‘Emily C Harris’. Shows central stem, vines, leaves and berries of Ripogonum scandens (kareo, pirita or supplejack) at left side of composition with three Convolvulus sepium flowers and several buds at lower right. A blue background gives the impression of sky behind the vines.)
Emily Cumming Harris. Untitled (Tītoki berries and white-flowering convolvulus). Undated. Watercolour, 250 x 350mm. Puke Ariki. PA2020.004. (Landscape format watercolour scene depicting botanical specimens with a coastal view. Several white convolvulus flowers intertwine with reddish-brown tītoki berries and green foliage, including ferns. The thin branches and long hanging strands of leaves of a tree, possibly a willow, are in the top right corner. In the midground on the right is an inlet with islands or surrounding hills. The scene is rendered in various shades of brown, green and blue, with white detailing on the closed flower buds, leaves in the top left corner, clouds, and ocean waves.)
Emily Cumming Harris. Untitled (Fuchsia and Sophora). 1879. Watercolour, 305 x 254mm. Puke Ariki. A65.641. (Botanical work of native flowers including pink Fuchsia, white convolvulus and foliage of Sophora (Kowhai).) (Sydney International Exhibition 1879?)
https://collection.pukeariki.com/objects/24349/untitled-fuchsia-and-sophora
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Emily Cumming Harris. Back cover (Boy and girl). New Zealand Floral Autograph At Home Book, [1903]. Back cover dark green with stylised drawing of boy and girl in long overcoats. He wears a hat, she wears a bonnet. They resemble a May Gibbs illustration.