Places

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-035

Description: A clay road curving between low hills, with flax bushes in the foreground. Six houses visible on the foreshore in the middle ground. Mount Victoria (with a flagpole or signalling pole) and North Head across the water and Rangitoto Island in the middle distance. Two ships in the harbour. The early road towards Epsom passed from Shortland Crescent, via Grafton Gully, the Government Domain and on towards Epsom Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in ink; also on verso, alternative title in ink: Rangitoto, Mount Victoria and North Head from the Epsom Road, Auckland. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 165 x 313 mm

Date: 1850 - 1870

By: Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: A-113-009

Description: A road in the left foreground, probably Ohiro Road, with bush, open fields and scattered houses on a sloping area, with dense housing and businesses on the flat shore area in the distance. The road running across the centre of the view into the housing on the left is probably Willis Street. The view looks north across the harbour towards the Hutt Valley. Several sailing ships and smaller boats are in the harbour. By same hand as A-113-010 [River flat and homestead, ca 1860] Originally catalogued as by an artist with surname Capot, on the grounds that a series of squiggles on the right side of the road in the left foreground could read "Capot" when turned upside-down. However, the marks are more likely to be intended to represent pebbles on the road. Other Titles - Capot [?] [Wellington from the Brooklyn Hills, ca 1860] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour over pencil 241 x 339 mm

Date: 1852

Reference: A-034-005

Description: View looking along the Hutt Road from Petone towards Wellington. A well-formed road runs along the foot of the Western Hills towards Wellington. The walking figure of a man is at the first bend in the road. Mount Victoria is in the distance on the left, across the harbour Other Titles - Petone Road looking towards town A very similar ink and wash drawing by Smith, titled 'Petoni Road looking towards Town', is the New Zealand diary of Mrs Henry Petre, 1842-1844, (MS-1772). The drawing seems likely to be later with its well-formed road in the foreground, and with the 1852 date inscribed on the matching watercolour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 249 mm