Places

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-048-049

Description: Scene in a clearing in Hutt Forest, with tall tree trunks to the left, a low raupo whare centre with a tree fern in front. A Maori figure is crouching at the entrance to the hut. Title from pencil inscription; date on verso. Almost identical to A-048-050 (untitled). Copy of lithograph by Cuthbert Clarke after William Swainson, held by British Library (Add MS 19954, folio 90 (132). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 252 x 175 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-014

Description: A small thatched cottage with a tall conical roof, propped up with branches on three visible sides. A man standing to the left and a barrel lying on the ground near the building, flax bushes in the foreground and the harbour and Western Hutt hills in the background. Probably the first Petone court house building. Compare the building illustrated on p. 12 of Louis Ward's 'Early Wellington'. A very similar building is shown with a caption indicating that this is possibly the court house of the The Settlement at Petone. A further almost identical view on sale at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 18 April 2010 is titled First Court House, Petoni Beach ... 1846. Other Titles - [Courthouse at The Settlement, Petone?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 195 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-017

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees. There is a fallen tree trunk in the centre with a man seated on the trunk, his back to the viewer and staff in his hand. Note on verso: Compton's cottage on Daniel's Island, River Hutt in 1843. (The whole cut down and the buildings destroyed - 1847). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1843-54. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 165 x 224 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-014

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, two cows grazing, watched by a man seated on a tree-root, with the stump of a large tree trunk on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: 1843 - 1847

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Scrapbook. [ca 1810-1840]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-295-q-046

Description: Thorndon in the foreground, with a gully crossed by a bridge, a house to the right, and a large tree. A man walking up a path towards the bridge and several chopped tree-trunks on the ground. A European cottage with thatched roof and a wooden chimney is in the right foreground. In the middle distance, flat land leading down towards Thorndon Quay with the backs of houses along the beachline. In the distance, the western hills to the left, the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other houses at the water's edge and part of Wellington Harbour The gully in the foreground is probably now part of the Thorndon motorway Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil, cropped Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 206 x 260 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-015

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees, with a fallen tree trunk in the centre. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-015

Description: View through wind-shaped trees from the northwest side of Petone Flat, looking towards the eastern hills. On the right is the palisade of Te Puni's pa with the roof of one whare rising above the fence-line and a single high-roofed house on the plain further into the valley on the left. There is a lone male figure, carrying a long spear standing in the middle ground, between two trees. A very similar drawing reproduced in Louis Ward's "Early Wellington" (Plate 25) is titled "Te Puni's new pa (Te Tatau-o-te-po) behind the Pito-one Pa" and shows the pa as close to the beach Other Titles - Pa of Honiana Te Puni, Petone, Te Tatau o te Po Inscriptions: Backing board recto - beneath image - Title and date Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 117 x 183 mm

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-025

Description: A small wooden cottage, probably one-roomed, with a wooden chimney to the left. A man is standing to the right, and a very large tree and other bush are beyond the cottage Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: pencil 150 x 100 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-009

Description: The artist's home in a clearing in Hutt Forest. The view is from the side, showing the original home, an L-shaped building. There is a cabbage tree to the left of the building Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 3.9 x 6.2 ins

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-050

Description: Shows three huts with steep-pitched thatched roofs, rush walls and small windows. The central hut is enclosed by a small wooden fence. The one at right foreground has a high stone chimney. A man is repairing or reapplying flax or rushes to the walls. In extreme right foreground grows a flax bush. There are hills in the background. The furthest cottage may be the building used as the first courthouse; see note for image at A-190-014. Very similar to the work at A-190-013 Other Titles - Petone; New Zealand Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [Immediately beside mounted image] 60; [At extreme top right of mat] 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 133 x 212 mm, mounted on sheet 236 x 304 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-001

Description: A single-storied farm cottage with other buildings alongside, in a clearing alongside a bend in the Hutt River. Tall trees frame the view and there are further trees behind the house. A Maori in a small canoe is on the river Other Titles - December Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 8 ins

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-019

Description: Shows a cattle beast in the foreground beside the trunk of a tall tree with epiphytes. In the background is a small cottage Inscriptions: Signed: W. Swainson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 187 x 129 mm

Date: 1844 - 1856

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: 1/2-031375-F

Description: Photograph of pencil drawing depicting the single-storied two-gabled house known as 'Trentham' built for Richard and Hannah Barton in a setting of tall native bush, known as Barton's Bush The house was completed by 1844, the year Richard Barton married Hannah Butler. It was demolished ca 1939. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-007

Description: The artist's own home in a clearing in Hutt Forest. There is a second, smaller building beyond the main homestead, to the left, a cow in the left foreground, tall trunks and tree ferns Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 4.1 x 5.8 ins

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-016

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest with a European building with a large thatched roof amidst the trunks of tall trees. A nikau palm to the right and a seated figure at the base of one tree trunk. Two cows in the left foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 2.5 x 4 ins

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-006

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with a huge rata tree in the middle distance, two men standing at its base, and a triangular raupo hut to its right Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.2 x 3.7 ins

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-010

Description: A raupo hut, with thatching reaching the ground. A fence to the left and a large tree fern to the right. The hut is in a clearing in Hutt Forest Hawkshead was the Hutt Valley property of William Swainson Other Titles - Native hut New Zealand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5 x 6.6. ins

Date: 1846 - 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-015

Description: A small fenced stockade in a clearing, surrounded by large tree trunks. There are two buildings inside the stockade's fencing, both small. According to Elsdon Best - "Stake stockade at Taita near Mr. Mason's house. built about 1846". Mr Mason was gardener Thomas Mason Other Titles - Stake stockade at Taita near Mr Mason's house, built about 1846. Related work: A lithograph 'Stockade at the Taita' dated 1849, after William Swainson and lithographed by George Swainson is in the British Library, Add MS 19953, folio 32. See also the Library's drawing at A-189-002, 'Stockade at the Taita' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4 x 5.5 ins

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-008

Description: The artist's home in a clearing in Hutt Forest. The view is from nearby, showing a two-storied thatched cottage, with another building behind and to the left, two tall trees between the two buildings, the garden in front Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 3.6 x 5.6 ins