Places

Date: 1856

By: Holmes, William Howard, 1825-1885

Reference: B-139-017

Description: Shows a view along the Wellington shoreline, looking north. Part of Barrett's Hotel is shown on the extreme left, beside a classical revival building. There are shops in the distance. A red-coated soldier leans against the door to Barrett's Hotel. A small rowboat is in the sea to the right of the road Title on engraved plate on frame. Artist attributed because of similarity of subject to Holmes' "Wellington Beach 1856" (A-032-040). The work is not as finished as that one however. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 343 mm (sight) Provenance: Prior to that in the collection of Mr Charles Levin of Sanson, descendant of W. H. Levin.

Date: ca 1880s

From: Creator of collection unknown :Contact prints from 10x12 negatives of scenes in the Wairarapa, Manawatu-Wanganui and Taranaki regions

Reference: PAColl-3722-2-58

Description: Streets in New Plymouth. Looks along the rooftops of houses and other buildings. Shows the beach on the left. Photograph by William Andrews Collis circa 1880s. Photographer's inscription on neg reads: "N P From Convent" Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - N P From Convent Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 25.6 x 30.6 cm

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Wilson, Kenneth Adrian, 1924-2012: Photographs relating to Wellington

Reference: 1/2-136056-F

Description: The Blue Platter Tea Rooms at Island Bay in Wellington. Shows women, men and children on the beach and a horse-drawn wagon making its way along The Esplanade. Photograph taken circa 1900, by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative from loaned album

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-004

Description: Petone with the Eastern Hills in the background, flax bushes and two wind-formed bent trees and two cows in the foreground. In the middle distance is a raupo whare with a conical thatched roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 6.5 ins

Date: [ca 1880-1922]

From: Lennard, Maurice, fl 1983 :Photographs of Piha and Huia taken by Edward Le Grice

Reference: PAColl-0398-10

Description: View of Lion Rock and the house of Sarah Theresa Gibbons (Salley Gibbons), Piha. Photographed by Edward Le Grice sometime between 1888 and 1922. Sarah Gibbons (1882-1970) was the daughter of Robert Pearce Gibbons who worked as bush boss at Piha Mill. The house is no longer there. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.5 x 16.4 cm

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: 1885

From: Dillberg, Gustaf, 1858-1934 :[New Zealand sketchbook. 1879-1887]

Reference: E-085-039

Description: Two watercolours on one page. The top view, a long narrow one, looks south towards the Bluff, Napier, from Port Napier. The lower view looks along the beachline, north towards the Bluff, with one house visible on its summit near the cliff. Two seats and a small shed can be see above the beach Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, 178 x 254 mm (page size).

Date: 1895

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook of Mary C. Medley nee Taylor...1895. No. 14.

Reference: E-379-019

Description: Coast road at Sumner, looking north-west showing houses on the left and the snow capped Southern Alps in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Sumner and snow range - 1895 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 130 x 225 mm (page size)

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm

Date: [ca 1896]

Reference: 1/2-003197-F

Description: Houses on the Plimmerton beach front, circa 1896. Shows sheds and washing on lines. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-067

Description: View from beach to mountain, with the town of Westport in the middle distance. Buildings include two churches Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 365 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847 - 1845

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 18. 53. The beach near Major Baker's residence, Wellington. 54. Makaenuku Pa, district of the Hutt. 55. The barracks Thorndon Wellington. Drawn by S C Brees, late principal surveyor to the New Zealand Company. Engraved by Henry Melville. [1847].

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: A-343-001-1

Description: A view along a beach (now Thorndon Quay) looking towards Kaiwharawhara and Wadestown, with the road to to Wadestown shown winding up the hill in the background. There are houses at the beachfront on the left, mostly at the top of the low hill above the beach. Major Baker's house appears as a roof only, with a tree in front of it. A couple on horseback is in the foreground and a Maori man, woman and child stand at the left. The Library holds a photographic copy of the privately-owned watercolour original for this engraving, painted between 1842 and 1845 (negative 138581 1/2). The watercolour has no Maori group on the left but is otherwise very similar to the engraving Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 75 x 130 mm on sheet 380 x 280 mm.

Date: [ca 1900]

From: Alexander Turnbull Library :File prints from W Wilson Album

Reference: 1/2-110647-F

Description: View looking east across Oriental Bay, Wellington, showing a horse and cart on Oriental Terrace to the right and houses and boat sheds along Oriental Parade in the centre. Taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1900. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from original print in Wilson album). Physical Description: Film negative

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848

Reference: E-333-104

Description: View on the foreshore, with a soldier and cannon in the foreground, houses and the blockhouse prominent to the left Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 135 x 230 mm.

Date: [ca 1906]

From: Price, William Archer, 1866-1948 :Collection of post card negatives

Reference: 1/2-000513-G

Description: View of Oriental Bay, Wellington, looking east and showing boat sheds and houses on the hillside. Photographed circa 1900 by William Archer Price. Inscriptions: Photographer's title on negative - bottom left - Oriental Bay Wellington 625 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 4.75 x 6.5 inches

Date: 1852

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866

Reference: C-064-003

Description: View from the top of Cave Rock looking along Scarborough Beach to the left, the hills and flat land of Sumner and along Sumner Beach to the right. There are five or six houses against the hill, centre and right. A piece of Cave Rock protrudes in the foreground. For attribution and provenance see A-048-027. Title from inscription Inscriptions: Verso - Title and date in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 755 mm

Date: [ca 1922]

From: Lennard, Maurice, fl 1983 :Photographs of Piha and Huia taken by Edward Le Grice

Reference: PAColl-0398-11

Description: View of Edward Le Grice's boarding house, Piha. Photographed by Edward Le Grice in about 1922. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print, 21.5 x 16.4 cm

Date: 1870 - 1877

Reference: A-389-002

Description: Looking west from Worser Bay towards the harbour, Somes Island and the western hills. The pilot station, three other houses and a boat shed are on the left, close to the beach. A bather wearing a long-legged costume is emerging from the sea onto the rocky beach in the foreground Dated 1870s because of the small number of buildings present in the area, and the lack of a road over the hill towards the end. The road went in in the 1880s. By 1877 there were signal stations, not recorded here. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 239 x 356 mm Provenance: Purchase: Martin Berthold, Wellington, 3 June 2008

Date: 1827 - 1836

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Werner, Jacques Christophe, 1798-1856; Brodtmann, Karl Joseph, 1787-1862

Reference: A-191-024

Description: Shows a scene at Astrolabe Roadstead, a beach with a Maori kainga at the right. A war canoe is being pulled into the water in the centre foreground, and another canoe is in the water at the far left. Other Titles - Village at Astrolabe Roadstead, Bay Extended Title - From: Dumont d'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842. Entdeckungs-Reise der franzosischen Corvette Astrolabe ... aus dem Franzosischen mit einem lithographirten Atlas. Schaffhausen [Switzerland], in J. Brodtmann's lithograpischen Anstalt, [1836? Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, image 160 x 260 mm, on sheet 252 x 340 mm. Provenance: Purchase: Antiquarian Art, Lower Hutt, 2008.

Date: [ca 1880s]

From: Bothamley, Robert Westley, 1888-1967 :Photographs of shipping and Wellington

Reference: 1/2-020098-F

Description: View looking east across Oriental Bay, Wellington, circa 1880s, showing houses on Oriental Parade, and Oriental Terrace to the right. Probably taken by Arthur Thomas Bothamley. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s) (copied from donated print). Physical Description: Film negative