Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Date: 1847

Reference: A-023-015

Description: Also shows Molesworth's windmill and Aglionby Arms in position to which it was moved some time in 1850's. Fort Richmond had been pulled down by 1860. Formerly attributed to William Swainson; attribution is now based on close similiarity to privately owned signed work, and on George Swainson's known use of white chalk highlights. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, wash and white chalk, 170 x 240 mm

Date: 21 Jun 1850

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2373

Description: Letter to his father about visit to Melanesia on Bishop Selwyn's schooner the Undine, Apr-Jun 1850. He describes the islands visited noting the vegetation and shells and the attitude of the natives. At Eromango in the New Hebrides they anchored with the Fly. Swainson travelled through the New Hebrides, Hawaii, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia Quantity: 1 folder(s) (1 folded sheet). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (cross hatched on all pages)

Date: 1870

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: MapColl-832.41bj/1870/Acc.1191

Description: Relief map of the area from Wanganui to Ruapehu to Lake Taupo, the Kaimanawa ranges to the Rangitikei River. The route of the exploring company is marked from Major A. Marshall's to Lake Taupo including marked sites of their camps with dates. Mr. Birch's sheep track is marked. A note states that A to B is from sketch signed G.F.S. Note on catalogue card states: To accompany: Misc Mss. H8, Report on the practicability of constructing a road from Wanganui to Taupo, 1869. Misc MS H8 is written in pencil on top right of map. Note on bottom left states: Copy f7 Accompanied by a copy of a page from AJHR, 1870, A.-5, p.5. This page includes a report by George F. Swainson with proposals for a road. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and colour wash on dressed linen. coloured, scale [1:253 440], 91 x 79.3 cm.

Date: 1841 - 1854

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-186-017

Description: Positive microfilm print from Micro MS. 333 the Drawings & Sketches of Mary Marshall [with corrections and drawings by William Swainson] arranged by her father W. Swainson [ca. 1838-1854] copied 1961 from original in possession of Roger Marshall. Inscriptions: "Q? Some of the So Sea Islands? ask George Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies (microfilm print). Physical Description: Microfilm print, 4.6 x 7.4 ins

Date: 31 Dec 1869, 29 Jan 1870

Reference: MS-Papers-2782

Description: Copies of letters to Hon W Fox from H C Field and George F Swainson. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (2 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Swainson, Henry Gabriel, 1830-1892; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-024-017

Description: Shows sea, sailing ship and island on horizon. Probably part of Fiji, Tonga or Samoa, since the artist visited all of these island groups. Formerly attributed to William Swainson because removed from his sketchbook; however William never visited the South Pacific islands. Sons Henry and George both visited this area and this is probably Henry's work. Other Titles - Fiji, Tonga or Samoa Physical Description: Pencil, 119 x 222 mm

Date: 1860-1862

From: McLean family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0032-1001D

Description: Papers are mostly correspondence relating land transactions in the Wellington and Wanganui areas. Some names have been entered in the Name field. Letter from C A Calvert, Registrar of Supreme Court of Canterbury re probates and management of intestate estates with reference to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Great Britain Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1848 - 1851

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-030-001

Description: Shows Maori launching a canoe; a horse and cart are on the road to the right, at the base of a cliff Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030/002. Both slips removed in the course of conservation and no longer present. There is a faint pencil drawing of a bush scene on the verso. The backing of the work has been partially removed and the drawing is hard to see. This work was attributed by the Library to Cuthbert Clarke until 2008. However Clarke is not known to have visited the Wellington region and the style appears closer to that of R. A. Oliver, who was based in Wellington and visited the Hutt Valley on more than one occasion. One watercolour of the Hutt by Oliver is dated March 1848, another September 30th, with no year. Compare the articulation of the figure dragging the canoe at the right, with a figure in the same position, dragging a canoe at Wahapu, Bay of Islands, in Oliver's watercolour at C-001-011 Other Titles - Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863. 1848-1851 Inscriptions: Recto - 'Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030-002' according to catalogue card. Neither hand-written slip has been retained. The wording of the title suggests a later attribution, not the artist's own title. For location of this view compare with Charles Barraud's "[River valley] 1856" at B-084-005; and with G Swainson's "Road round the second gorge", lithograph in British Library - see file print of this at E-143-067. Several of Swainson's lithographs are after originals by other artists. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 327 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-143-014

Description: Three views on one page. The top view is a lithograph of Taita Stockade, in a clearing, with hills beyond. The central view is a seated Maori woman, named Taki. She is wrapped in a blanket. The lowest view is an extensive view over Tamaki, with farms, the harbour, clumps of bush. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph and of two ink and wash drawings

Date: 1849 - 1850

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-143-025

Description: Two views on one page. The upper view is a small lithograph of the farm of William Swainson at Lower Hutt, lithographed from a drawing by him, by his son G F Swainson. The lower view, at right-angles to the page, looks up the Waiwakaiho River and its suspension bridge over rolling country towards Mount Taranaki. It is the work of J J Merrett Other Titles - Suspension Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of ink drawing and of lithograph

Date: 1840

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-143-067-1

Description: Looking down the Hutt River with the road on the right. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-144-008-1

Description: View from the shore looking across Waitemata Harbour Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-144-006

Description: View across a harbour towards a mountain range, in the Coromandel area. A one-masted ketch is in the foreground, and a small rowboat is in the distance to the left Compare another less finished work showing the same scene further south at E-144-049 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing

Date: 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-144-041-1

Description: Rangiatea Church, with Hadfield's vicarage in front, a further European building beyond. A flax on the left and a tall cabbage tree on the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - G F Swainson delt. Title bottom centre. Date bottom right Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of crayon and wash drawing,

Date: 1853

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Bagnall, Austin Graham, 1912-1986

Reference: MapColl-832.4gbbd/1853/Acc.24902

Description: Sketch map of the province of Wellington, with topographical features including rivers, and depicting three major pieces of information as at December 1853 (tinted blue): the quantity of land purchased from the Maori (as at July 1953 1,469,700 and tinted pink and as at December 1853 3,168,600), the estimated quantity of available land (5,172,084), and the estimated quantity of waste land (2,161,317) as per Commissioner Donald Mclean's statement. The total of these lands is given as 10,502,001. A note on the map states that 'the contents of the purchases tinted blue are only approximated - not having been surveyed'. The land blocks identified include Ahiaruhe, Puketoi, Hapuka, Ahuriri, Mohaka, Whanganui and Rangitikei. Please note that the blue and pink tints on the map are indistinguishable due to the copy being in black and white. Map signed by the draughtsman, GF Swainson and by M Fitzgerald, surveyor in charge, 1853. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale [1:1 267 200], 31 x 38 cm. Provenance: Donated by A.G. Bagnall.

Date: 1856

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-189-022

Description: Kaiwharawhara Valley, Wellington, looking out towards the harbour, with a single-storied gabled house with an out-building, the whole surrounded by a fence and one or two trees, on the flat. The house was the first Wellington residence of Mary Marshall, nee Swainson, sister of the artist. The hills are shown newly denuded of bush, with some erosion. On the left is the old coach road towards Porirua. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Signed: G F Swainson Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photostat of pencil drawing

Date: 1930

By: Cole, Herbert Robert, 1890-1962; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Cowan, James, 1870-1943

Reference: A-173-016

Description: The two bastions and linking fence of Fort Richmond, Hutt Valley, ca 1945. The Hutt River runs across the foreground with the first arched bridge crossing it. Probably copied from a watercolour by S. C. Brees. Compare watercolour held in the Alexander Turnbull Library at B-031-035, which is from the same angle, although taken from a greater distance. Possibly intended for reproduction in James Cowan's book The New Zealand wars. The image used in Vol. 1 p. 93 is from a different angle and is captioned as being by George Swainson. The Library holds a drawing of the Fort by George Swainson (A-023-015) but it shows the second bridge over the river. Inscriptions: Herbert R Cole Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing 215 x 265 mm Transfers: Transferred from Photo Section, 1974.

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-188-014

Description: A single-storied house with fence to one side, at the base of the Hutt hills, viewed from across water, possible the edge of the Hutt Estuary, with raupo, flax and birds. Initially attributed to William Swainson with suggested title [House in the Hutt Valley]. However comparison with the style of George Swainson's crayon drawing of Herongate (A-188-013) suggests that William's son George is the more likely artist and that the house is located close to Herongate in Petone, not far from Moreings Creek and the Hutt Estuary. Other Titles - House in the Hutt Valley [former title, along with attribution to William Swainson] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Crayon on paper, 110 x 200 mm

Date: 1853

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-144-041-2

Description: A broadside view of the Victoria, with North Head (Auckland) in the background Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-189-021

Description: An early road alongside and above the Hutt River A lithograph produced by the son of the artist Other Titles - George Frederick Swainson Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 100 x 115mm