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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.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-029

Description: The bridge and fort viewed from the north, a windmill to the right and a bare tree in the foreground. The bridge is the second Hutt bridge, built after the first one was destroyed in the 1848 earthquake. The second bridge was destroyed in the 1855 earthquake. Compare a very similar drawing by G. F. Swainson, Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge. Swainson was almost certainly copying W. M. Smith's drawing. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 mm x 240 mm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Beere, Daniel Manders, 1833-1909 :Negatives of New Zealand and Australia

Reference: 1/4-034717-G

Description: Bridge over the Hutt River, Lower Hutt, photographed circa 1900 by Daniel Manders Beere. Note on back of file print reads "5th Hutt Bridge, Lower Hutt" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1910

From: Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972: Photographs of New Zealand

Reference: 1/1-022763-G

Description: Lower Hutt, Wellington, looking south-east with Hutt River and the Melling suspension bridge in the middleground. Photographed by Sydney Charles Smith in 1910. Source of descriptive information - Note on back of file print reads: "written on neg: 1910 p 2" Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative

Date: 1847 - 1845

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 11. Kari-Kari on the River Manawatu, 32 ; Fort Richmond & the Hutt Bridge, 33 ; View looking up Hawkestone Street Wellington 34. Engraved by Henry Melville drawn by S C Brees. [1847]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-030

Description: The river in the foreground with a Maori canoe, an arched bridge and Fort Richmond in the middle ground, hills in the distance In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 11, No 33 text p 22 Brees, in his "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" notes: The Hutt Bridge was opened in the month of April 1844 ... The view is taken looking down the stream, and shows Fort Richmond, which was constructed under the direction of captain Compton, an enterprising settler of the Hutt ...[here follows considerable detail about the construction, dimensions and price of the fort] ... The excitement which was felt at the Hutt when a party of the 58th regiment took up their quarters in the fortress on the morning of 24 April 1845, will not soon be forgotten ... the settlers had just completed it on the evening of the previous day when an attack was expected from the natives... As Brees left New Zealand in 1845, his drawings for this engraving must have been completed in 1845 A related, but not identical watercolour is held by the Library (IRN 82218), showing the fort and bridge from a different angle, with a party of military. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving

Date: 1855 - 1890

From: [Star Lithographic Works] :Dinner on board the first emigrant ship for New Zealand [and] The Hutt river and bridge in 1855. [Auckland, Star Lithographic Works, 1890]

Reference: A-109-055

Description: Two men with axes and fallen trees on riverbank in foreground, bridge to left with tree-clad hills behind, houses and church on far riverbank, with more tree-clad hills in the background A copy of a wood engraving originally published in the Illustrated London news, 1855, p. 620, with the title The Hutt River and Bridge, New Zealand (negative G-2457-1/2) Extended Title - From: The New Zealand Jubilee and Exhibition Chronicle, 1890 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 121 x 200 mm