Places

Date: 1847

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-292-061

Description: A detailed view of the houses and streets in the town from a high viewpoint, (the hill behind St Mary's Church) looking out to the west towards the sea. St Mary's Church and the churchyard are in the left foreground. The names of several house-owners are given, along with details of other features, including the houses of [William] Lakeman, Dorset, [Richard] Brown, "G. Inn" [Government Inn?] New Zealand Company houses [i.e. the immigration barracks], the gaol, Kawau Pa on the right, near the sea, a store (or stone?) house, the mill [Huatoki] stream, grass, streets, the bridge and gardens. The position of the South Huatoki Reef is also given, just out to sea, in line with the corner of the pa on the right. Brougham Street runs down the centre of the view, diagonally from the right bottom corner, with Vivian Street branching off to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 243 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1841

By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-009

Description: A view from the south bank of the Whanganui River with the foreground details outlined in ink. There is a cabbage tree to the left, a tree fern to the right. Across the river is bush-clad undulating land with Mount Ruapehu in the distance. No houses are visible New Zealand company drawing, no. 6, Portfolio D. Information inscribed in ink lower left, probably before the New Zealand Company had had a stamp made. Probably 'Sketch near Wanganui' received by the New Zealand Company in London on 23 March 1842, listed by the Company as item number 48 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date [printed], signature. Also bottom left, in ink: No.6 Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 152 x 286 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: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: B-043-012

Description: Shows one of the ships of the New Zealand Company's preliminary expedition (Tory or Cuba), a rowboat (or canoe) with two lateen sails in the right foreground, and a Maori canoe in the right middle distance. Shows coastline, partly wooded in background, with the Arthur Range to the right. The view is of the Waimea Plains and Moutere area. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 35 [then: New Zealand Company stamp 1842].; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D. / No. 3; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 260 x 484 on sheet 333 x 495 mm Provenance: Bought by Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Great Britain. Admiralty; Hamilton, William John Warburton, 1825-1883; New Zealand. Department of Survey and Land Information

Reference: MapColl-834atc/1849-50(1989)/Acc.21689

Description: Wrongly attributed to Kettle, this Hamilton map attributed to Charles Kettle, of part of the South Island, from Kaikoura southwards and including Stewart Island, (not drawn to scale). Shows harbours, rivers, lakes, Maori tracks, and the southern boundary of the New Zealand Company's land purchase of the Canterbury Region, from Kaiapoi, southwards to Milford Sound and eastwards to Molineux (Molyneux) Bay. Includes descriptive notes on areas of land such as 'very extensive grass plains'. Includes some Maori placenames. Shows Otakou Settlement. Written on map: The red figures denote the number of Natives [(Maori), and showing a total of 1150 along the East Coast including Stewart Island] Written on map: Kaiapoi is the southern boundary of the Nelson Block Written on map: Reproduction of a photographic copy held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, MapColl-834atc/1849-50/Acc.1379 (a copy of an original map drawn on H.M.S. Acheron, by Hamitlon, 1849-50) Hamilton was surveyor on HMS Acheron, under Stokes, under arrangement of Royal Navy and New Zealand Company. In 1949 Stokes and Hamilton attended meeting with Maori when Mantell (of Land Purchase Department, with Alfred Wills) finalised the purchase of Canterbury land. (See Lawn, 'The pioneer land surveyors of New Zealand, 1963). Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Ink, part coloured, on cardboard, linen backed, 74.7 x 42.7 cm

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1840

By: Clayton, Matthew Thomas, 1831-1922; Auckland weekly news (Newspaper)

Reference: C-033-005

Description: Among the ships shown are the Glenbervie, Adelaide and Tory, with Maori paddling a canoe with Colonel William Wakefield as passenger. Supplement to: Auckland Weekly News. Christmas number, 1899 A reconstruction of the event, drawn some 60 years later Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph 411 x 556 mm

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: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

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

Reference: PUBL-0020-22-1

Description: View taken from the terrace in the garden of Dr George Samuel Evans, whose residence is shown in the left foreground. The first house below this on the hill at left, is that of Mr Mocatta. Beyond that house, rather indistinctly, are the New Zealand Company's Survey Offices, Stores, and the Emigration Houses; Messrs Clifford and Vavasour's Establishment, &c., &c. The Hutt Valley is in the distance, with the Hutt Road shown at the left of the harbour. In the centre, the large group of buildings comprises the Supreme Courts, Major Richmond's and the Government Offices; the Thistle Inn, Major Hornbrook's Stores, &c., and a little further to the right, the back of Barrett's may be seen by the side of the harbour. Further along is Mr Fox's house (under a vessel sailing into Lambton Harbour; Colonel Wakefield's residence, with the flagstaff, is a little further to the right, on rising ground, and at a greater distance. Passing on, the eye ranges down the beach to the house at Kuma Toto; Windy Point a little beyond, and Te Aro Flat in the distance. The large roof seen just to the right of Colonel Wakefield's flag-staff, is the Church of England, and the foreground on this side is finished by the residence and grounds of Mr Chetham Strode, which joins Dr Evans' premises. Other Titles - [Plate 65] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 77 x 513 mm., on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842

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.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-003

Description: View looking north along the lower west coast of the North Island. Names Mts Egmont and Tongariro (this is more correctly Ruapehu), which are shown in the distance. On the face of the painting, at the top, is "No. 36" (added at a later date), with the N Z Company stamp which is dated "Mar 23 1842", the date of the watercolour's arrival in London and registration by the New Zealand Company. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No 36; Recto - top centre - [Stamp] - New Zealand Company, Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 185 x 487 mm (Portfolio D: no 1) Provenance: Acquired by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-006

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down over Thorndon, showing the Immigration Barracks, the first St Paul's Church and a single house on the shore at Oriental Bay. The view looks across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Evans Bay. There are several dead trees on Thorndon Flat. Point Jerningham is on the left across the water, and there are six ships and several smaller vessels in the harbour. Two flags are flying close to the shore The Hocken Library holds a lithograph (possibly a unique surviving copy) of this view, published by Jones & Bluett, Wellington, 1841. The view is taken at much the same time as Heaphy's 'Thorndon Flat, April 1841' (C-025-010) Features marked along the top, but trimmed, so that they are all incomplete: 'n Houses' is probably Immigration Houses'; 'a Esq.r' is probably Duppa Esquire [house in Oriental Bay]; 'Church' is probably St Paul's Church; 'ia' is the end of Mt Victoria; 'Bay' on the left, is Evans Bay. Dating: the associated lithograph was published in 1843. St Paul's Church, Museum Street, was consecrated in 1844, but possibly completed some time before 1844. Other Titles - Tinakori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 206 x 307 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased 1915, from Francis Edwards. Formerly New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-011

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with European sails in the foreground near two bush-topped rocks. In the middle distance on shore, is a large tent, the camp of Arthur Wakefield's preliminary expedition's shore-party, with the brig "Arrow" at anchor to the right. The snow-capped Arthur Range is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - No. 3 / Portfolio D; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Date-stamped: 23.3.1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company Collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1841

Reference: C-011-001

Description: Features of the landscape named, including J. C. Crawford's farm. Watt's Peninsula is now known as Miramar Peninsula and this view is from the lower slopes of Mount Crawford, looking out towards Cook Strait with Evans Bay and Lyall Bay on the right, the harbour entrance on the left, and Burnham Water (later drained and now the site of Miramar) in the centre. The Kaikouras can be seen in the distance (Mt Tapuaenuku) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touches of blue watercolour 215 x 513 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection, purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

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

Reference: PUBL-0020-22

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Other Titles - Captain Sharp [Plate 65] Quantity: 3 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-003

Description: Shows the tall thin trunk of a tree on a gentle slope in the right foreground, against a background of rolling terrain with some bush, and a distant hill. There appears to be no feature currently named Mount Westall on the Chatham Islands Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy del; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 280 x 228 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull, as part of the New Zealand Company collection, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

Date: 1860

By: Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895

Reference: C-030-013

Description: Shows arrival of 40th Regiment (from Australia) on the Victoria with, from left the Airedale (steam sloop), Tasmanian Maid (Paddle steamer), George Henderson (Brigantine), a Schooner (Emily Allison, Tyne, or Travellers Bride), the Victoria (H. M. Colonial steam sloop) a schooner. (This information conflicts with that on the original backing board identifying left to right: HMS Cordelia, HMS Niger, Packet ship Tasmanian Maid). The buoy in the left foreground is the New Zealand Company buoy. New Plymouth is shown in the distance with Mt Taranaki. Troops are being ferried ashore in two small lighters in the immediate foreground with others visible in the distance. (See AT 3/1/1, 13 June 1986) Taranaki Museum has a very similar signed watercolour. Attribution and title based on this work. McArthur's catalogue for 10 May 1985 suggests scene as Feb 1861, but Taranaki' Museum suggest arrival of 40th Regiment on board 'Victoria', 3 August 1860. See TL 3/1/1, 13 June 1986. 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. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - Identification of ships & N.Z. Company buoy Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card image 305 x 495 mm on card 400 x 590 mm Provenance: Purchased by Lawford at McArthur's auction, Auckland, May 1985, lot 100. Processing information: Record updated on 17 October 2023 to remove incorrect reference to Victoria HMS (Ship : 1859-1893).

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-146-009

Description: Shows the ornately carved frontage of a storehouse on two poles, with a notched climbing pole for access. In the left background sit a Maori man and women with a cooking pot and a dog in front of a large whare. There is a wooden enclosure fence with carved posts at the right and behind, including one human figurehead, a pipe in his mouth. There are woven bags of food possibly kumara stacked beneath the storehouse. Mount Egmont, its height and symmetry exaggerated, is in the background Lithograph, entitled "Wata or Provision house at Otumatua" (neg. 1/2-150220-F), was made by an unknown lithographer, after this watercolour, and included as an illustration in Wakefield, E. J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (London, 1845). A watercolour by Heaphy in the Hocken Library, Dunedin, is titled by the artist 'Gateway at Otumatia Pa'. The correct form of the name is not known Other Titles - Wata or provision house at Otumatua. Pa. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - Chas Heaphy; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: Mar 23 1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 315 x 260 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material by Alexander Turnbull, Francis Edwards, London, 1915.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-010

Description: Shows broad river plain area with the faint hills of Wellington in the distance, looking from a low scrub-covered rise. Similar inscription in faint pencil on recto, but reading "Ruamakanga" and "divide Wairarapa Pakatitaki & Hutt" New Zealand Company Drawing number 335. Not marked on work with the usual stamp, but title corresponds to list of works received by the Company Other Titles - Ruamahanga from the east ; the range of mountains divides Wairarapa from the Pakuratahi & Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - title in ink, in the hand of William Mein Smith; title repeated in pencil on front, in upper sky area, in another hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper ; 194 x 512 mm Provenance: Acquired with the New Zealand Company paintings by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull in 1915.