Places

Date: [1955]-1977

From: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010: Papers

By: Barton, Phillip Lionel, 1925-2010

Reference: 77-089

Description: Comprises reference cards and notes; photocopies from ATL Elsdon Best manuscript collection; photocopies from the `NZ gazette' re Tararuas; file of miscellaneous papers including newsletter of the Brisbane Bush Walkers and correspondence with the Appalachian Mountain Club from Tararua Tramping Club; file of extracts re surveying in the Tararuas; file of reports and notes re Tararuas; file, `Early history of the Tararua Ranges'; file, `Extracts from G L Adkin's `Annals of the Tararuas' and text of address; file `Maori travel and trails, Tararua Ranges' by Barton; and file labelled `Tararua misc' which includes photographs of tramping huts and trampers Quantity: 1 box(es) (hollinger box). 0.13 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter (some photocopies)

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-001/002

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view The windmill in shown in 'Mr Molesworth's farm at the Hutt' was not built until 1845, in partnership with Ludlam Extended Title - From: Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams, 1847. Title plate, plate 1 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-038

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet, 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-08-2

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy range in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"); a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 4 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs. The dogs are worrying the boar. The Maori are wearing traditional Maori clothing, and all are carrying firearms. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 238 x 495 mm

Date: 1847 - 1849

By: Abbot, Edward Immyns, 1822-1849; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: B-155-010

Description: Shows two bearded surveyors attempting to boil a billy over an open camp fire, in bleak wet weather, on a treeless plateau with mountains in the background. One man, smoking a pipe, is dressed in a torn jacket, and attempts to warm his hands over the fire. His companion, at the left, tries to shelter the fire from the wind with his hat. At the far left, a miserable dog stands in front of the opening of a tent. The smoke blows from the fire in a direction opposite to what one would expect judging by the slant of the rain. Abbot was part of a surveying party contracted in 1847, with Sydney M Scraggs, northwards along the Taieri plain and further north. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 241 x 349 mm

Date: 1849

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: C-103-074-4

Description: A distinctive rock formation above Rapaki, Lyttelton Harbour, probably on the top of the hill, marking the land set aside for Maori. A European man is standing on a flat stone at the base of the outcrop Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen & ink, 81 x 68 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: PUBL-0011-08

Description: An extensive view of the Wairarapa Plain with Wairarapa Lake on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background ("the snowy rnage in the distance is the Tararua Mountains"), a wild boar hunt in the foreground, with 5 Maori, 3 Pakeha men and four dogs and a bivouac noted on the plain to the right. Bracken and tree ferns in the foreground and clumps of bush on the plain. The accompanying text reads: This district lies about fifty miles from Wellington by the nearest road. Mr Charles Kettle, one of the Company's Assistant-Surveyors, ascended the Manawatu River, which flows along the other side of the Tararua Mountains, and entered this plain by rounding the low spurs at the extreme right of the view. The forest consists of the largest trees. The open tracts are covered with grass, feern and tutu bushes. Wild hogs abound in this plain. The Ruamahanga flows through the midst of it, and passes through Lake Wairarapa into Palliser Bay. The plain of the Ruamahanga is about sixty miles in length, with an average breadth of twelve miles. There is one small native village at its northern extremity, and another on the beach at Palliser Bay, as well as a whaling station supplied from Wellington. Lake Wairarapa is ten miles long, and from two to three miles broad. Between the lake and the sea several settlers from Wellington have recently squatted with large herds of cattle, which they drove along the sea-coast. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, in 3 sections 238 x 460 mm + 495 mm + 460 mm

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-138/139

Description: View probably from Mount Evans on the south side of Lyttelton Harbour, looking down to the Harbour on the right with a reef marked. Purau and Diamond Harbour are below, Quail Island and the head of the harbour, Gebbies Pass left of centre and Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) on the left in the distance. Also shows two men wearing caps, sitting on rocks above the view Other Titles - Lake Ellesmere Inscriptions: Recto - above image - 14 Sep; Recto - Centre of pg 139 - Waihora Quantity: 2 drawing(s) (inverted). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (page size)

Date: 1843

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Morgan, A M B (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: B-113-002

Description: Two European explorers walking up a hill in the foreground towards three other men who are gazing at the lake beyond them and the distant hills in the background. Fox explored the Wairarapa in May 1843 with Clifford, Vavasour and Whitehead with a view to initial surveying and establishing farming in the area. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title (with the lake's name misspellt) in ink in the artist's hand; Verso - second part of title and date. Compare also an almost identical watercolour by Fox in the Hocken Library, titled Lake and lower part of Wairarapa, the valley of the Wairarapa taken from the West side, 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 147 x 244 mm Provenance: Purchased: Mrs A M B Morgan, 15 Upland Road, Kelburn. 10 November 1972

Date: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 3] 1848-1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-334-134/135

Description: A caricature of Alfred Wills and another surveyor standing perhaps on Mount Evans, looking north east across Lyttelton Harbour on the left to Godley Heads, Little Port Cooper (Big Bay) in the centre and the heads of Port Levy to the right. Inscriptions: Recto - Left image: P. Cooper; Recto - Right image: Little P.. Cooper Quantity: 2 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 400 mm (double page size, inverted)

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-001

Description: Two European men, a Maori man, a dog, and a theodolite in front of the conical crater of Auckland Harbour's dormant volcanic island Rangitoto. Ferns and two low scrubby bushes are the only vegetation. The harbour and other landforms can be seen in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy (in ink); Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white on buff paper 420 x 545 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-01

Description: Brees with his theodolite and sketchbook, his dog and several other surveyors in a camp in a clearing in Porirua Bush. Brees is sketching a Maori family. Below the main image is a vignette of the Hutt River, with Molesworth's farm and windmill. Molesworth and Ludlam's windmill was not built until 1845, Brees' last year in Wellington, giving a date to the lower view Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings on sheet 365 x 261

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: 1848

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Scrapbook. 1840-1872.

Reference: C-103-048-1/5

Description: Includes three sketches of the surveyors Alfred Wills and Walter Mantell with tripods surveying in Otago; and two head and shoulders sketches of Kaiapoi Maori (Te Kawai and I Ki). The sketch of Mantell is by Wills. Other Titles - Southern District New Munster. Kakanui Quantity: 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawings, each 105 x 75-85 mm.

Date: 1849

By: Evans, Frederick John Owen (Sir), 1815-1885

Reference: D-040-001

Description: Shows a scene of the plains near Bluff, probably the Awarua Plains, in which two men can be seen carrying out surveying work. A stream or creek, probably the Mataura River, runs through the scene to the foreground. The sky and clouds are a prominent feature of the work. A tent is pitched on the bank of the stream, and a number of harakeke flax plants feature in the foreground. Comparison of this work with the style of watercolours attributed to Frederick Joseph Owen Evans in the Alexander Turnbull Library, and those known to be by Evans held in the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich) and the Hydrographer of the Navy (Taunton) strongly suggest an attribution to Evans. It seems reasonable to speculate that the 'R B' referred to as the surveyor working in the painting could refer to either R Bradshaw or R Burnett, both listed as surveyors on the Acheron between 1849 and 1851 (See: Otago to Mataura River [cartographic material] / surveyed by J.L. Stokes, G.H. Richards ... [et al.], H.M.S. Acheron, 1849-51 ; engraved by J. & C. Walker (MapColl 834.52aj 1849-51 43016)) Inscriptions: Verso - top right - Bluff, N Zealand. HMS Acheron, 1849- Plains near -- showing R B's surveying work with tent etc [in faint pencil, visible through backing] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, on two sheets, 334 x 755 mm