Places

Date: 1860

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: A-186-048

Description: Shows a view of the Hutt Valley with the river winding towards the foreground. The buildings of the stockade (Fort Richmond) are at the left with a blue white and red striped flag flying on a pole beside one of the buildings. There may be a bridge in the centre, with a further three houses at the right. Other Titles - And Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 90 x 255 mm, lower corners rounded Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1840 - 1850

Reference: B-009-013

Description: Two men resting beside a narrow road newly cleared through native bush, including a tall tree fern, with a river to the left. Could possibly be the Karori or Porirua areas, but more likely to show the making of the road between Petone and Taita Gorge in 1842, overseen by the artist, who was then Chief Surveyor. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print in 1972 - see C-028-036. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 228 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-054

Description: Shows a bush clearing with tall trees at left and right, beside a thatched cottage whose roof extends on the left side almost to the ground. There is a slab chiney on the near side, and to the right a woman stands beside a barrel. There is another low thatched hut at the left. In the left foreground lies a tree trunk. There is a solitary tree fern behind the house. Louis E Ward's "Early Wellington" (1928) notes on page 300, that a Mr Russell (spelt with a double l) was living at Taita in 1852 (quotes the 'Australian and New Zealand gazette' for 12 June 1852). Other Titles - Russell's Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [At extreme top right of mat]: 5 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 135 x 188 mm, mounted on sheet 224 x 300 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1846 - 1855

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-020

Description: Shows the vegetation on the steep bank of a river, with sunlight on one portion of it. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 203 x 172 mm. Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-018

Description: View across a plain, from a clearing in bush, framed with tree ferns. A man is seated on a log, looking out to the view. A large homestead with two chimneys is in the distance, possibly Herongate, Henry Petre's first home in the Petone area. A range of tall hills is in the distance, probably the eastern Hutt hills Inscriptions: Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4 x 6.5 ins

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Price and Company

Reference: PA3-0193

Description: Inscriptions: Verso - Gilbert Smith first engine driver Hutt railway Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1842 - 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-011

Description: A small raupo hutt in a clearing. It has a single door and no windows. Behind it are tall trees including a tree fern. In the left foreground is a tall tree identified as a karaka Other Titles - Maori hutt near Petone, New Zealand. Karaka tree in foreground Inscriptions: Verso - Karaca tree in the foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 6.9 x 4.3 ins

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-016

Description: Two European buildings, one intact, one on an angle and falling to bits. On the hill behind are the palisades of a pa, and the roofs of further buildings. The scene is probably in Wellington or the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 74 x 99 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-004

Description: The trunk of a kahikitea with a rata vine climbing up it, to the right, and a tall tree fern emerging from lower bush to the left. Hawkeshead was Swainson's own house and land Note on back as to the fate of the trees Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Inscriptions: On Mount: Great Black Fern & White Pine, Hawkshead, N.Z. d. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 7.5 x 5.3 ins

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-022

Description: A clearing in bush, with a single-storey bark hut on a rock or clay bank beside a small stream. A tall mamaku (tree fern) is in front of the hut, with a seated and a standing Maori figure. Other tree ferns and bush are beyond, with hills. A raupo is in the foreground beside the stream. The scene is likely to be at the foot of the western or eastern hills in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Native bark hut and tree fern, Lower Hutt Valley Inscriptions: Verso - Native bark hut and black fern. Lower Hutt Valley. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 120 mm

Date: 1848 - 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-292-075

Description: A copy, with some variations of a lithograph from an original drawing by William Swainson 'Fern-Tree', lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland in 1849. Both versions show the central tree-fern with its dead branches hanging around the trunk, a standing (armed with a spear) Maori male and a seated Maori woman to the left of the trunk and low scrub beyond. White's watercolour has the addition of another Maori male walking off into the bushes to the right of the trunk of the tree-fern. It is possible that White copied Swainson's drawing, rather than Clarke's lithograph version of this view. See A-004-007 for a copy of the lithograph, which is very rare, and in which Clarke has accidentally reversed the Ns in Swainson's name, and almost in the title, although that is corrected. See also White's 'Black tree-fern' (A-292-073), which tends to suggest that White was copying Swainson's drawing, rather than the lithograph, because it is not reversed, like the lithograph. However the fact that both of Swainson's drawings that he is known to have copied were lithographed by Clarke in Auckland, may suggest that White saw the drawings in Auckland. T. B. Collinson, amongst whose sketches the watercolours by Fred White are located, visited St John's College and White, a fellow member of the Royal Marines, may have visited with him and seen the Swainson drawings there.. Other Titles - Fern-Tree, after William Swainson and Cuthbert Clarke. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]; Recto - top right - 64 [in pencil, numbered by T. B. Collinson. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1847 - 1859

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-029

Description: View past dense bush, including a large tree covered with epiphytes, looking towards still water. Possibly the Hutt Forest and part of the Hutt River Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 270 x 179 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-059

Description: Shows a young nikau palm plant with its central leaves still furled. Other Titles - December Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]; Mat recto - bottom right - [At extreme lower right corner]: 31 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 230 x 171 mm, mounted on sheet 297 x 235 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-187-060-1

Description: A clearing beside a stream with a hill behind. There are large tree-trunks with a raupo whare between them, a Maori man seated outside it. There are flaxes in the right foreground and other trees and shrubs Attribution on grounds of style, and lettering of title; compare A-188-026, signed "M.S." On verso of A-187-060: Swainson, William. Franchiavilla, Sicily. 1808. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 116 x 183 mm

Date: 1847

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-100-015

Description: Shows Seaview Farm, Belmont, home of John Stratford & his wife Anne (nee Harnett) Possibly copied from a drawing by William Swainson, or by his daughter Mary, later Marshall, Martha King's friend Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil; also on verso After Swainsons Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 235 x 292 mm

Date: 1846

By: Page, George Hyde, 1823-1908; Marshall, Patrick (Dr), 1869-1950

Reference: B-081-002

Description: Rural scene with two figures in the foreground, houses and bush in the background. Notes on back copied from Col. Mundy. "Our Antipodes", 1852, p.314 Boulcott's Farm and Stockade were 3 miles inland from Petone, in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Boulcott's Stockade, Hutt Valley 1846. Lieut. Page 58th Regt. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Boulcott's Stockade in the Hutt Valley N. Z. 1846; Recto - beneath image - Graves of soldiers 58th Reg; Verso - bottom centre - Boulcott's Stockade, Hutt Valley 1846. Liut. Page 58th Regt. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 299 x 452 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-189-009

Description: A rata twining around a large pukatea tree on Alzdorf's farm in the Hutt Valley Other Titles - Alzdorf's Pukatea Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 8.2 x 4.8 ins

Date: 1842 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Beauchamp family

Reference: C-029-006-b

Description: An aerial view of the harbour and site of the town of Wellington from south of Wellington Heads, looking down onto Miramar Peninsula in the left centre foreground with Burnham Lake, the site of Wellington City to the left, Pencarrow Head at right foreground, the Hutt Valley in the middle distance to the right. Includes map below image Second edition Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 360 x 697 mm. Provenance: Tinakori Gallery purchased lithograph from descendants of Katherine Mansfield's sister (possibly Vera McIntosh Bell) and brother-in-law, who were the previous (original?) owners.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-006

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with a huge rata tree in the middle distance, two men standing at its base, and a triangular raupo hut to its right Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.2 x 3.7 ins

Date: 1858

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-191-011

Description: Shows a silver tree fern (punga) standing beneath three taller trees. There is a fallen log in the foreground. The location is probably close to Swainson's property (now central Lower Hutt). Other Titles - Pukatea Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - centre - W.S. / 58 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 150 x 110 mm, mounted on sheet 282 x 216 mm. Provenance: The vendor purchased this from a Wellington dealer in the early 1990s.