Places

Date: 1845 - 1847

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

Reference: A-449-012

Description: View from the top of the Terrace looking down over Te Aro Flat with Mount Victoria in the distance. Manners Street can clearly be seen in the bottom left of the picture, leading to the Wesleyan Chapel on the right-hand side of the road. Wellington Harbour can be seen on the left of the view, with ships dotted in the harbour 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 Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 110 x 310 mm on sheet 125 x 440 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-464-027

Description: Shows a cow in a bush setting, which includes a young palm and a tree fern Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WS [artist's initials, in pencil]; Backing board recto - beneath image - Young palm and tree fern, Hutt Valley NZd [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash on paper, 135 x 115 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Bethunes at Webb's, March 2010

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-002

Description: Shows a lone gravestone with a small gated surround, high atop a hill above Nelson, with the Boulder Bank in view below. The gravestone is inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of Henry A Bell, aged 19'. Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock is set just out of view of the painting, to the lower left. Various ships and boats can be seen in the Nelson Haven area of Tasman Bay, between the Boulder Bank and the coast. One of the boats is a waka with two sails Bell's brother Henry (called by his middle name, Angelo), went to Nelson about 1841 as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. He died of typhoid within a year of arriving. Like Angelo, Francis was usually called by his middle name, Dillon Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, and surfacing at a a French provincial auction. Possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by William Fox and Charles Heaphy purchased 2006 and 2014 (Reference numbers C-025-025, C-013-007, C-173-001 and A-465-015).

Date: 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: C-173-001

Description: Shows the coastal road and hills of the Nelson foreshore, with what is now Abel Tasman National Park seen in the distance. Two Maori carry a rod between them with a line of fish hanging from it. Various houses can be seen at the road's edge, and boats of different types are in the water. One dinghy in the foreground is kept under a roofed shelter. Oxen pulling a cart can also be seen travelling the road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Heaphy 1845 [in faint brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 215 x 310 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, who acquired the work at a French provincial auction and possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by Francis Dillon Bell and Charles Heaphy, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-012-007, and C-173-002.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879

Reference: C-029-009-a

Description: Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone, and the first four ships to bring settlers to Wellington, anchored between Somes Island and Petone Beach. A view from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is at A-146-001 The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840 Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - Published in 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerningham Wakefield (London, 1845) Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Presented to the Hutt Mechanics' Institute, with E. Jerningham Wakefield's best wishes for the success of the Institution [on separate card, in E J Wakefield's hand, in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 240 x 405 mm on sheet 355 x 510 mm Provenance: Originally a donation from E J Wakefield to Hutt Mechanics Institute, a predecessor to Lower Hutt Public Library

Date: [ca. 1846]

Reference: A-465-021

Description: Shows bullocks pulling a cannon on wheels, with three soldiers. One soldier sits on the cannon; one drives the bullocks with a whip; the third walks behind the cannon, his rifle resting on his shoulder. In the background there are hills, and possibly a Maori pa Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Pukekawa [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour on paper, 123 x 190 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-013

Description: A stream with three canoes in the foreground, raupo growing at the water's edge, pa buildings on the left, a bush-clad hill rising behind. In the background are other whare, a steep hill topped with a defensive pa with fences at three levels and someone on a maypole-type swing Compare the watercolour by Cyprian Bridge of which this is a copy at A-079-002 Other Titles - Kawakawa Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and Chinese white, 253 x 367 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878

Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084

Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm

Date: 1865 - 1845

By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868

Reference: B-014-005

Description: A view loking north towards the houses of Akaroa. A stream is emptying into the bay in the foreground, with toetoe to the left. Smoke is rising from a number of chimneys in the town. No. S95 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. Final state (vi/vi). Exhibited in 'A Meeting of Cultures: France and New Zealand' exhibition of early French views of New Zealand and of Katherine Mansfield manuscripts, translations into French and curios, held at Alexander Turnbull Library, 2 to 30 March 1999. Other Titles - New Zealand. Banks Peninsula. State of the little French colony at Akaroa, towards 1845 - Voyage of the Rhin [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 80 x 146 mm on sheet 320 x 491 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-016

Description: Two Pakeha beaching a rowboat on the shore in the foreground, watched by a Maori man, a small child and a dog. Two further Maori and a dog are walking away in the distance. The view is from the western shore of Wellington Harbour, possibly close to Kaiwharwhara, looking towards Petone in the distance. The western hills are shown covered in bush Other Titles - View of Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 470 mm

Date: 1845 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Trapp, H H, active 1983

Reference: B-062-021

Description: Shows three figures tramping across a plain, with flax bushes and cabbage trees. In the background, the landscape is probably Waiohine Gorge with Mounts Isabelle and Holdsworth (Identified by A G Bagnall, 4/7/1983) The background landscape was identified by A G Bagnall, at the time of donation, personal communication to Curator, 4 July 1983 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; visible image 195 x 312 mm on sheet 310 x 430 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: C-126-002

Description: View looking north-east along Wellington's south coast from above Ohiro Bay, past Island Bay and towards the Harbour entrance. In the foreground, amongst bush and low scrub is a party of six European men, two leading on horseback, one with two dogs. Brees is probably depicting himself and his group of surveyors Original of no 45 (with the same title) in Brees' "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand". The engraved version has a single man with a dog in a different position in the foreground, and a flock of sheep. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title faintly inscribed in capitals in brown watercolour: View of Port Nicholson [fr]om the range of hills west of the Ohiro Valley. The first two letters of 'from' have been trimmed off Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 508 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951

Reference: B-031-001

Description: Wide stretch of the Hutt river with two boats, a dog on the shore in the right foreground and Baron Alzdorf's homestead and farm with fence and tall trees in the left background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 139 x 293 mm

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-016

Description: A Maori man in a blanket keeping watch over Ohaeawai Pa from behind a dead tree on a hill, with three other Maori seated beside him. The pa is in the middle distance, surrounded by a palisade and there is part of a farm with cleared bush and a small shed and fences closer to the watching group. Other Titles - Ohaeawai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 253 x 364 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878

Reference: A-286-004

Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Iwikau, a Maori man, from Wakapuaka pa, near Nelson Iwikau's wife, Hingatu, and child are shown in another portrait in this group (A-286-005) See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, vo.23, no.1 May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. Iwikau is likely to have been converted by the Rev. Charles Reay of Nelson Other Titles - Iwikau. Wakapuaka. Remarkable for his piety. 1843? Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. (Coates, I. Remarkable for his piety...). Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-022

Description: A clearing in bush, with a single-storey bark hut on a rock or clay bank beside a small stream. A tall mamaku (tree fern) is in front of the hut, with a seated and a standing Maori figure. Other tree ferns and bush are beyond, with hills. A raupo is in the foreground beside the stream. The scene is likely to be at the foot of the western or eastern hills in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Native bark hut and tree fern, Lower Hutt Valley Inscriptions: Verso - Native bark hut and black fern. Lower Hutt Valley. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 120 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-001

Description: Shows six canoes of British soldiers paddling up the Waikare Inlet towards low hills with some buildings of the Kapotai Pa in the background. Some soldiers stand on the bank in groups on the right. Compare with the engraving after this watercolour" "Waikare river expedition" (Neg. 1/2-119208-F), published in A. S. Thomson "The story of New Zealand" (London, 1859), vol. 2, page 111. John Williams' preliminary sepia sketch of the same title, is housed at A-079-011. Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 189 x 260 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951

Reference: B-031-002

Description: View from where Moreing's Creek enters the Hutt River, looking south towards Petone, with the Western Hills to the right. H. W. Petre's house is the furthest house to the far right and the other houses are spread along Petone foreshore. Two horsemen about to cross the bridge over the creek, a Maori man on the far side of the creek and flax lining both river and creek. The central large house may be the Queen's Head Inn Original of no 41 in Brees' "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" Petre's house on the right is likely to be his first home at Petone, rather than his second built at Woburn, which was further into the valley and on the other side of the Hutt River. Other Titles - Petone. Moreings Creek Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre right: Petoni [in brown brushpoint. Artist's inscription]. Verso: top centre, in ink 'Plate 13'. Bottom centre: 'Take a piece off ground & sky' [instructions to engraver] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 279 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-032

Description: In the foreground a man on horseback is herding cattle. Beyond him is a valley with farmland and Mount Victoria in the middle distance, Wellington Harbour just visible beyond that Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 216 x 366 mm

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

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-0020-17-1

Description: A Maori family in the foreground, with the buildings of Simmonds and Hoggard's Windmill behind them (now the site of the Embassy Theatre at the foot of Mount Victoria). Part way up the hill to the left is 'Victoria Cottage' (the top of Marjoribanks Street). This was William Fitzherbert's farm cottage. The windmill was built in 1843. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 69 x 139 mm