Places

Date: 1850

Reference: A-050-030

Description: Shows a view looking down to the wharf at Official Bay, with house (probably Governor Wynyard's) in the left foreground. Beside the house is a flagpole flying the Union Jack, and a cannon pointing towards the harbour. On a lower level in the centre are a group of residences near the shore. Several sailboats are sailing in the harbour, with North Head and Rangitoto Island in the distance. The view is very similar to that in a lithograph view by Cuthbert Clarke, reproduced in Una Platts' "Lively capital; Auckland 1840-1865" (Christchurch, 1971), page 157. This lithograph is held at the British Museum (now British Library). By the same artist as that of: A-050-031 Purchased at auction, where the title was given as: "View from Courthouse Hill towards Commercial Bay" Other Titles - View from Courthouse Hill towards Commercial Bay Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 207 x 292 mm.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: A-329-009

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour, probably from the position of the Bolton Street Cemetery. There are several dwellings in the foreground, a flagpole on the foreshore at the left, near a wharf which juts out into the harbour. The flagpole probably marks the site of Government House. On the foreshore at centre right, is a building with a square turret, with a pointed roof, probably on Lambton Quay The house roof in the left near section adjacent to bushes and trees may be those of the house of Robert Park. His house was adjacent to and below the Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On edge of frame now discarded) - suggested date of around 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Handley Thomson, Silverstream.