Places

Date: 1848

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-008

Description: Shows mountainous coastline from the sea, with some peaks wreathed in cloud. Possibly by C H Kettle. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - [Stamp]: New Zealand Company 21 Sep 1848; Recto - above image - 2 in 48/2078 1 In 48/2078 right; Note by A H Turnbull on mount. Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketches 77 x 254 mm, 76 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, with other New Zealand Company material.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-015

Description: View from the first ridge above the beach showing a prefabricated barracks to the left and the tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson, a well, a flag, and several carts. The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant snow-capped Moutere Hills and Tasman Range. The first three immigrant ships, The Will Watch, the Whitby and the Arrow are shown in the harbour with flags flying. There are clumps of trees at the water's edge, but the land is otherwise grassed or with flax and bracken. Original watercolour for the related lithograph "View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the Town of Nelson" published in 1842. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited: Treasures in Trust. Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1997, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch, 1997, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 1997, total exposure 27 weeks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 386 x 492 mm on sheet 465 x 587 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other material from the disbanded New Zealand Company in 1915 in London.

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-002

Description: Shows a lake scene (Te Whanga Lagoon) with two ducks in the water and two shags on a branch in the foreground, a canoe on the lake in right distance. Across the lake is a distinctive volcanic cone hill with smaller peaks further in the distance. Tree ferns, a cabbage tree and other trees are nearby, with flax flowering on the strip of land in the foreground The volcanic peak shown may be Te Ranga, close to the South-west corner of Te Whanga Lagoon Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 132 x 355 mm on sheet 221 x 368 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-113-005

Description: View looking across the waterfront past a road skirting a cliff towards part of the harbour, with from left, inscribed along the top, the Manse and Captain Cargill's house, the Resident Agent's Office (of the New Zealand Company), Mr C. H. Kettle's house, Mr Valpy's house, the Survey Office, and on far right the school and church. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - features identified in ink along the top of the view. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Stamped with the New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 7 1850 and inscribed by the New Zealand Company No. 338. A watercolour in the Hocken Collections is very similar to this view. It is titled Dunedin, Otago, January 1849. It has been annotated by T. M. Hocken as showing the 'Emigrants barracks built of manuka ... site of back of Customhouse in Bond St' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash drawing 230 x 463 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards & Co, with other New Zealand Company material, London, 1915 Processing information: Formerly located at C-013-005

Date: 1848

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-001

Description: Shows two figures on the near ridge, looking down over the inlet of Picton Harbour at left. To the right are hills, and in the distance can be seen islands and hills in the Marlborough Sounds. There is a small area of cleared land with a Maori kainga or pa (Waitohi Pa?) in the port area to the left, and slightly to the right, a building that appears to be a European church. The New Zealand Company stamp, dated 1848, appears in the sky area along with the number 268. Painted for the New Zealand Company during Fox's travels around the northern South Island in 1848. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Waitohi, Picton Inscriptions: Recto - above image - No. 268 [with NZ Company stamp dated "14 July 1848"] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 557 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-003

Description: View looking north along the lower west coast of the North Island. Names Mts Egmont and Tongariro (this is more correctly Ruapehu), which are shown in the distance. On the face of the painting, at the top, is "No. 36" (added at a later date), with the N Z Company stamp which is dated "Mar 23 1842", the date of the watercolour's arrival in London and registration by the New Zealand Company. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No 36; Recto - top centre - [Stamp] - New Zealand Company, Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 185 x 487 mm (Portfolio D: no 1) Provenance: Acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-006

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down over Thorndon, showing the Immigration Barracks, the first St Paul's Church and a single house on the shore at Oriental Bay. The view looks across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Evans Bay. There are several dead trees on Thorndon Flat. Point Jerningham is on the left across the water, and there are six ships and several smaller vessels in the harbour. Two flags are flying close to the shore The Hocken Library holds a lithograph (possibly a unique surviving copy) of this view, published by Jones & Bluett, Wellington, 1841. The view is taken at much the same time as Heaphy's 'Thorndon Flat, April 1841' (C-025-010) Features marked along the top, but trimmed, so that they are all incomplete: 'n Houses' is probably Immigration Houses'; 'a Esq.r' is probably Duppa Esquire [house in Oriental Bay]; 'Church' is probably St Paul's Church; 'ia' is the end of Mt Victoria; 'Bay' on the left, is Evans Bay. Dating: the associated lithograph was published in 1843. St Paul's Church, Museum Street, was consecrated in 1844, but possibly completed some time before 1844. Other Titles - Tinakori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 206 x 307 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased 1915, from Francis Edwards. Formerly New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-023

Description: Shows view looking across the valley to snow-capped peaks. There are stands of bush in the left foreground, and along the river which runs across the picture in the middle distance. The foreground also shows examples of tree ferns and flax. Exhibited: Drawn from Nature: Europeans record New Zealand 1770 - 1860". National Library Gallery 31 March - 28 May 1989. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]; Recto - top centre - (Handwritten in ink): No. 76; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D. No. 8; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 323 x 485 on sheet 375 x 505 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, from Francis Edwards, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection

Date: 1842

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-653

Description: Shows Thorndon and Te Aro, stores, houses, hotels, wharves, flagstaff, the Exchange, customhouse office, post office, man on horseback, settlers, Maoris, and ships in the harbour Original of: Day & Haghe. The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington. Published in Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845. Plate 4. For identification of buildings, refer to text of this publication. Smith was a New Zealand Company employee at the time of painting this oil and it was probably painted for the Company or as a promotion for colonisation of Wellington. Dimensions including frame: 460 x 1195 mm. Earlier frame, replaced in 1986 and again in 1990 included rounded upper inner corners. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 320 x 1060 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-005

Description: Shows a plain, either in the Waimea area, or more probably in the Motueka Valley, with the Motueka River passing through it. There are felled trees in the foreground, and a Maori food storage storage platform with two levels and curved rat-barriers on its legs. It holds flax kits of food. Mount Arthur (the distinctive conical shape in the centre) and the Tasman Mountains are in the background. Probably drawn in November 1841 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title. Also signature Chas Heaphy, bottom right; Recto - bottom left - No. 6; Recto - above image - New Zealand Company stamp, partly trimmed, bearing date March 1842 (the date of receipt in London) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 343 x 496 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-011

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with European sails in the foreground near two bush-topped rocks. In the middle distance on shore, is a large tent, the camp of Arthur Wakefield's preliminary expedition's shore-party, with the brig "Arrow" at anchor to the right. The snow-capped Arthur Range is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - No. 3 / Portfolio D; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Date-stamped: 23.3.1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company Collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-003

Description: Shows the tall thin trunk of a tree on a gentle slope in the right foreground, against a background of rolling terrain with some bush, and a distant hill. There appears to be no feature currently named Mount Westall on the Chatham Islands Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy del; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 280 x 228 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, as part of the New Zealand Company collection, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-010

Description: Shows broad river plain area with the faint hills of Wellington in the distance, looking from a low scrub-covered rise. Similar inscription in faint pencil on recto, but reading "Ruamakanga" and "divide Wairarapa Pakatitaki & Hutt" New Zealand Company Drawing number 335. Not marked on work with the usual stamp, but title corresponds to list of works received by the Company Other Titles - Ruamahanga from the east ; the range of mountains divides Wairarapa from the Pakuratahi & Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink, in the hand of William Mein Smith; title repeated in pencil on front, in upper sky area, in another hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper ; 194 x 512 mm Provenance: Acquired with the New Zealand Company paintings by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in 1915.

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1841

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-009

Description: A view from the south bank of the Whanganui River with the foreground details outlined in ink. There is a cabbage tree to the left, a tree fern to the right. Across the river is bush-clad undulating land with Mount Ruapehu in the distance. No houses are visible New Zealand company drawing, no. 6, Portfolio D. Information inscribed in ink lower left, probably before the New Zealand Company had had a stamp made. Probably 'Sketch near Wanganui' received by the New Zealand Company in London on 23 March 1842, listed by the Company as item number 48 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date [printed], signature. Also bottom left, in ink: No.6 Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 152 x 286 mm

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-004

Description: Shows view from high vantage point, looking over flat plain towards present-day Motueka, and out to Tasman Bay. Kaiteriteri is on the left, and D'Urville Island in the right distance with French Pass visible as a gap between the island and the mainland. New Zealand Company drawing no. 70. This is the original drawing for the lithograph 'The level country at the south end looking north of Blind Bay' published in E. J. Wakefield's 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' in 1845. The lithographer has added cows to the foreground and changed the predominant tree ferns and cabbage tree seen in this view. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: 23 Mar 1842; Recto - No. 70 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.