Places

Date: 1890

From: Smith, Maurice Crompton 1864-1953 :[Sketchbook ca 1890]

By: Crompton-Smith, Maurice, 1864-1953

Reference: E-390-005

Description: Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil, 176 x 253 mm

Date: 1851 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-080-3

Description: The end of Kapiti to the right with Porirua Harbour in the distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and Watercolour, 75 x 122 mm

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

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

Reference: A-343-005

Description: Shows a group of Maori launching or beaching two canoes in the Paremata inlet. The palisades of the pa are seen to the left, with more beached canoes, and a row of wooden poles stretching into the water in the middle distance. ATL holds the book in which this print was published at Art Rm: f 919.31 BRE. Print trimmed close to the top of the image Other Titles - Paremata Pa, Porirua Extended Title - From S C Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, J Williams, 1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 79 x 139 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :[Two works. 1. Palliser Bay, Wairarapa, &c (with dwelling and figures) [ca 1843]. 2. (On verso) Porirua / Paremata whaling station [1842-1844]]

Reference: C-126-021

Description: Pencil sketch is a preliminary sketch for Plate 12 in "Illustrations to adventure in New Zealand" (1845), "Porirua Harbour and Paramatta whaling station, 1843", showing two food drying platforms in the right foreground, the curve of Porirua Harbour, and the entrance to Paremata Harbour in the right distance. Dated from other views of the same area. Other Titles - Porirua Harbour and Paramatta whaling station Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 227 x 380 mm, on verso of watercolour. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at an English country auction, 1986 or 1987, by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm. Brian Groshinski of McArthur's Auction, 14. 8. 98)

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-007

Description: Shows a Maori man walking on the near shore to the right, and a pa on top of a low hill across the water. The Pa is Rangihaeata's Matai Taua Pa Copy of pencil drawing (115 x 185 mm) copied by Mary Marshall from original by W. Swainson. Matai Taua Pa, built ca 1845, was abandoned by Rangihaeata in 1846 when he withdrew with his men to Battle Hill to face British soldiers. He later moved north to Horowhenua Other Titles - Pauatahanui Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-126-025

Description: Shows a sketch of a view looking north-east over the Porirua Harbour from the Whitireia Peninsula shore, towards the entrance to Paremata Harbour. A single-sailed canoe rests in the water at the right. Relates to "Porerua Bay", illustration number 8 (Plate 3) of Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand". Also similar to the watercolour at ATL B-031-028. Other Titles - Porirua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 221 x 348 mm. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at Gorringes Auction Gallery, 1986 by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm., Brian Groshinski of McArthurs' Auction, 14. 8. 98) Miss A. Brees, a descendant of S. C. Brees, had lived in Sussex

Date: Ca March 1887

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

Reference: 1/1-025711-G

Description: Butternut camp, Te Onepoto Bay, Porirua Harbour, Wellington region. Shows sailing canoes of the Tainui Canoe Club. Photograph taken ca 1887 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print, originally from lantern slide. Dated from William's residence in Wellington ca 1881-1886/7. Location identified by visit to site by J Sullivan, 19 Nov 2011 Photographer's title from lantern slide: "Butternut camp, Porirua Harbour, W'ton" The Tainui Canoe Club, of which William Williams was a member, held a cruise on Porirua Harbour at Easter 1887. Source of information: Evening Post, 16 October 1886, Page 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative

Date: 1842

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

Reference: B-031-028

Description: Shows Maori gathering shellfish on the rocky shore. There is a single-sailed canoe in the water at the right, and several canoes are drawn up on the shore around the bay at the left. In a similar work (identical shoreline in the foreground) at C-126-025, and the engraving (Plate 3, illustration 8) in "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", it is thought that the view is from the Whitireia side, looking northeast towards the entrance to Paremata Harbour. In contrast, this view shows a continuous shoreline at the left, suggesting that it is a view from Mana or Plimmerton, looking south-east towards the narrow entrance to Paremata Harbour. Similar to: Porerua Bay (Porirua), plate 3/8 In: Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, by S C Brees, London 1847 (but see notes above). Dated because of similarity to a dated work, at C-126-025. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 210 x 342 mm

Date: Ca March 1887

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

Reference: 1/1-025704-G

Description: Butternut camp, Te Onepoto Bay, Porirua Harbour, Wellington region. Shows sailing canoes of the Tainui Canoe Club. Photograph taken ca 1887 by William Williams. Source of descriptive information - Negative registers. Photographer identified by curator John Sullivan. Identified from 1/1-027711, taken on same occasion The Tainui Canoe Club, of which William Williams was a member, held a cruise on Porirua Harbour at Easter 1887. Source of information: Evening Post, 16 October 1886, Page 2 Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 8.5 inches