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: 1888

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Negatives, lantern slides, stereographs, colour transparencies, monochrome prints, photographic ephemera

Reference: 1/1-025629-G

Description: Photograph taken by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Stereographic dry plate glass negative

Date: 1830 - 1838

By: Gardiner, Thomas, active 1830s-1850s; Fuller, Alfred Walter Francis, 1882-1961

Reference: A-049-020

Description: Waimate North Mission Station seen from the front, with its flag inscribed Rongopai flying in the foreground and several outbuildings, including a dovecot to the right. The beginnings of a circular garden with two small small bushes and a surrounding drive can be seen in the foreground. The building has dormer windows in the roof and verandah posts. A copy of the engraving after Samuel Williams' 'The missionary house, Waimate' in William Yate's Account of New Zealand (London, Seeley and Burnside, 1835) p. 197 Title from mount Another view of the same house by Richard Taylor, drawn between 1839 and 1843, (NON-ATL-0131) shows much more development in the garden, including climbing plants, possibly roses, growing up onto the roof of the house, a fenced-in verandah, a garden developed in front of the verandah, and a much more developed central circular garden bed in the foreground The artist, Gardiner, is known to have copied other views of both New Zealand and Tasmania, published between 1835 and 1856. None of his work is signed, and the source of his name is unknown, although it may have come from the owner of his work in the 1950s, Captain A W F Fuller. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 175 x 250 mm Provenance: Previously Collection of Capt A W F Fuller, London (died 1961).

Date: 1839

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-02-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori by the shore to the left, and Petone Pa, a canoe and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839... Epuni is the uncle of Warepori. Under the same unfavourable circumstances as his nephew, he has nobly deserved the name of "a true gentleman." He still lives at the village of Pitone, loved and respected by the English inhabitants of all ranks. These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839... the village of Pitone and the flag-staff at the foot of which Colonel Wakefield took formal possession, appear in the back-ground. Other Titles - Te Puni Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 247 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: 1850 - 1852

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891

Reference: B-139-004

Description: Shows view of Lyttelton looking towards the immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house, and the Sumner Road. Shows surrounding houses including one on the hillside above the Sumner Road, with the flagpole outside it. Assumed to be by Weld because of similarity in style to depictions of Lyttleton at the same time, said to be by Weld, held at Canterbury Museum, especially one taken from the same spot and dated 1852. Note long parallel brush strokes, fence palings, ploughed fields. Likely to be slightly after 1850. Compare William Fox's Passengers by the Cressy Landing drawn in December 1850. Weld's painting shows extra buildings and the barracks of the 1850 view converted into houses. It does not show Holy Trinity Church, built and blown down in 1853, but the church might be out of sight on the left from this angle. However, a Canterbury Museum watercolour taken from the identical spot by Mary Townsend is dated 1850. The vendors had this work catalogued as 'School of William Fox', dated ca 1851 Other Titles - Lyttelton, New Zealand c. 1851 Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Lyttelton, New Zealand c.1851; Unsigned. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 195 x 295 mm.

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-009

Description: View from across the Waikato River towards the main buildings of the Maori king's residence. The long low building on the left is the 'General's quarters', the 'King's palace' is in the centre with dark red barge boards, the 'council chambers' are futher to the right and the closest building and the flagstaff is on the far right. There are two small canoes at the landing place, along with people and horses. There are also tents amongst the remaining buildings on the site Copied from a watercolour by Hamley's superior officer, E. A. Williams 'Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato. 1864' in E. A. Williams' diary in the Hocken Library, p. 77 (The Turnbull holds a slide of this view) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 98 x 187 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

Reference: 1/1-017989-G

Description: Photograph of a watercolour with a view from inside the fort looking out to the Waitemata Harbour. Three soldiers standing in the foreground, several piles of cannonballs to the right, a Union Jack flying centre, the fort's walls with gaps for cannon and part of a wooden building visible on the far left. Several ships in the harbour. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-005

Description: A group of six red-coated soldiers (with part of a seventh on the far right) and one "friendly" Maori in the foreground, behind a low shelter, loading and shooting towards the extensive palisades of Hone Heke's pa at Ohaiawai. The palisades are shown with rifle holes continously along the base to enable firing from behind protection; the English soldiers and their companion, on the other hand, are having to raise their heads above their shelter to fire, with the exception of those on the far right, who are behind a Maori-style palisade. There is a flag flying to the far left of the pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, date and signatue Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 166 x 237 mm

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: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-028

Description: Shows view from British camp of assault on Heke's pa. A collection of circular tents (and one rectangular tent at right), stands around a campfire in the foreground, with top of a larger tent visible in right foreground. A group of soldiers crouch behind camp fence in middle distance at left. Eight grass huts are close to the tent group at right, in front of hill topped by picket (group of British troops) which surveys the attack taking place in left background. British troops attack the palisades of the pa in two places. A flag-pole in the pa carries two flags, one a Union Jack. For description see: Barthorp, Michael. "To face the daring Maoris" (London, 1979), c.7. ATL has J. Barthorp's "To face the daring Maori" at P 993.1 BAR 1979. Artist attributed according to style and circumstantial evidence. Other Titles - Ohaeawai. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ohaiawai 1st July 1845. 3 PM. - NZ; Unsigned.; Verso - centre - [Repeats title] According to Wises New Zealand guide; a gazetteer of New Zealand (1987 ed.), Kawiti also assisted at this battle. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, image 205 x 318 mm, on sheet 265 x 362 mm.

Date: 1830 - 1839

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; Williams, Nigel, 1901-1980

Reference: A-161-008

Description: Shows the foreshore at Paihia with three canoes at the water's edge, and the houses, huts and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station back from the beach. A flag, probably the Union Jack, is flying from one of the hills behind the houses. Published as a wood engraving in the Church Missionary quarterly papers, no. 79, Michaelmas, 1835, frontispiece, with title Mission station, Paihia, New Zealand.. Inscriptions: On former paper and linen backing, removed and stored with the drawing: In ink, top centre visible through linen 'Paihia'. On linen, in another hand, in pencil 'Henry'. 'Paihia' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 195 x 325 mm.

Date: 1849

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

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-070

Description: View from Hill Street area looking down onto the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) with flagpole and sentry-box. Domett's house, which Collinson shared during his stay in Wellington, is in the left foreground. Mount Victoria is in the background and five ships and four smaller vessels are in the harbour, four of the ships identified. A faintly sketched horse is grazing in the foreground. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-071. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: [circa 1849]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-146-011

Description: Shows a view looking towards open water between a low tongue of land at the left, and the higher landing place at the right, with six boats drawn up by the bank and three others in the water. Above the landing place men work unloading and carrying, and a horse and cart is employed. Behind this are a group of buildings, one with a flag flying from its roof. There is a steamboat in the left distance in open water. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Shortland landing place from inside the Creek Auckland Museum holds a similar sketch of the same location called "The creek and landing place, Shortland. Looking out towards the Thames Frith". Reference number PD-1952-2-31. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, black and white, 120 x 180 mm Processing information: Location identified 18 April 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: 1863

By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906

Reference: B-061-020

Description: Shows H.M.S. Harrier at a wharf on the Manukau Harbour, military personnel and tents, a Union Jack on a flagpole, and the opposite bank of the river in the distance. Signed: H.A.S. Title from accompanying caption. Other Titles - Harrier Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 245 mm

Date: 1840

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

Reference: E-216-f-115

Description: Two sailing ships (the Anna Watson and the Platina) in Auckland Harbour and a small boat with five people in the foreground. Planks of building timber, another rowboat on the foreshore and groups of tents on the higher ground to the left and on the skyline above cliffs. A red flag (the Red Ensign?) flying on a point at the top of the cliffs. The tent closest to the shore belonged to Captain Rough. Johnson did 2 drawings of this scene. The original of the other similar drawing has disappeared, but a copy made by Elizabeth Hocken is in the Hocken Library. It shows the flag being raised, cheered on by a group of onlookers. See 'Mrs Hobson's Album' (1990), p. 147-148 for further details. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 195 mm

Date: 1864

From: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911 :Sketches in New Zealand [ca 1860 to 1864]

By: Hamley, Joseph Osbertus, 1820-1911; Williams, Edward Arthur, 1824-1898

Reference: E-047-q-020

Description: Looking south along the coastline towards Paritutu Rock, with the houses of New Plymouth along the foreshore, a flag flying above one building on the skyline and a rowboat being hauled ashore onto the beach. Copied by Hamley from a drawing of his superior officer, E. A. Williams, 'Beach and Sugar Loaves New Plymouth. [1864]' in the Hocken Library, in Williams' sketchbook (now dismantled and separately mounted). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on grey paper, 134 x 207 mm

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Godwin, William, active 1860s; Doile, John Lionel William, 1921-1991

Reference: C-059-009

Description: The small steamship Stormbird painted in a oval cartouche, with a leaf border, a stylised Mount Egmont in the background and the Sugar Loaf rocks to the right. New Plymouth is also visible. The Red Ensign is flying from the stern Walter Turnbull, father of Alexander Turnbull, returned to New Zealand from a visit to England aboard the 'Stormbird' in 1862. Exhibited in 'Wide-Eyed: Early Images of New Zealand' exhibition of works by settler artists, held at the National Library of New Zealand Gallery, 18 July - 9 November 1997. Other Titles - Stormbird Inscriptions: bottom right - William Godwin. Auckland Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 317 x 424 mm

Date: 1860

By: Bates, Henry Stratton, 1836-1918; Lawlor, Patrick Anthony, 1893-1979

Reference: A-159-004

Description: View across the Waikato River towards the Maori King's residence and village. 'The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the King's' (note on verso). A large flagpole and ten other houses are visible. A small canoe is in the foreground, with another in the middle distance and others moored at the distant bank. The King was Potatau te Wherowhero Accompanied by letter and newspaper article about the picture. "The house on the extreme left with the sentry box near it is the Kings", and other notes on back Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title; Verso - various inscriptions Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 127 x 170 mm Provenance: Found loose inside volume 2 of Rees' 1892 biography of Sir George Grey. The volume was once the property of the artist, Henry Stratton Bates.

Date: 1874 - 1875

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-147-015

Description: The Rev Charles Nelson proposing on one knee to Sophia Coates on the top of Mount Victoria, Auckland, on a windy day, with a flagpole with signal flags behind the couple. On the left, other men and women are struggling up the hill against the wind. The sketch is drawn to illustrate a letter written by the artist's wife Kate to her sister Anna. Sophy Coates is much taller than Mr Nelson. Her parasol is blown inside-out by the wind. The sketch forms part of the letter, which is on a single sheet, with writing on both sides and the sketch in the final section. Attribution based on reference in extended title to Charles Heaphy's presence at the picnic in question; style of drawing; handwriting of title below image. Date of 1874 or 1875 based on the fact that Charles Moseley Nelson and Georgiana Sophia Coates married in 1875 Location: Initially assumed by the Library to show Wellington's Mount Victoria, with signal station. However the couple becoming engaged were based in Auckland, where the artist also lived until the late 1870s. In addition, the Auckland Freemasons had an annual picnic on Mount Victoria, Auckland. Extended Title - He you know is very small, she is a "fine girl". Mr Heaphy will talk about a little boy sparrow and laugh, but she is much larger than he is. Sophy Coates and Mr Nelson, that is how it came about. Mr Heaphy was at the picnic so must know. Inscriptions: Recto - Title in Charles Heaphy's hand below image. Extended title above and below image in Kate Heaphy's hand. Likely to have been drawn while Heaphy was resident in Wellington between 1872 and 1878. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black ink on laid writing paper 208 x 130 mm (image, title and surrounding explanatory text) on folded sheet 260 x 208 mm Provenance: By descent from Heaphy's wife Catherine Churton to Marvin family of Australia. Transfers: Loose with the collection of drawings by H G Robley now located at E-403-f.

Date: 1843 - 1844

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

By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854

Reference: E-216-f-111

Description: View from above Grafton Gully, covered in dense bush, with low fenced hills and Governor Hobson's grave in the cemetery in the centre. A road runs past the cemetery towards Government House in the middle distance. Several other houses can also be seen. In the distance across the water, the flagstaff marks Mount Victoria, with Rangitoto beyond that. The flat island further off, left of centre is Tiritiri. Painted in early 1843, before the artist moved to an appointment at Russell. A fence has been raised around Governor Hobson's grave. The funeral had taken place in November 1842. Compare Mitford's very similar view at E-216-f-041. The view is attributed to Edward Ashworth by Janet Paul in Mrs Hobson's album (Auckland, 1990) p. 149. However there are strong stylistic similarities to the work of Mitford, and it seems more likely that he painted two views from similar spots for Mrs Hobson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 195 x 301 mm