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Date: 1853

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

Reference: A-048-047

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with the trunk of a large tree to the left, a crouching Maori figure, a raupo hut and a tree fern Title from pencil inscription; date on verso. Almost identical to A-048-048 (untitled). Copy of lithograph by Cuthbert Clarke after William Swainson (See A4/7) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 252 x 175 mm

Date: 1847

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

Reference: A-189-006

Description: A study of a tall fern tree Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 160 x 129 mm4.7 ins

Date: 1859

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-024

Description: A Maori man seated at the foot of a tree fern in a forest. There is a food storage platform to the right Probably copied from a very similar drawing by William Swainson, Edith Halcombe's father. The artist would have been only 15 at the time this was drawn and is known to have copied her father's work when young. Her preliminary study for this drawing [Tree fern], ref. no. A-188-021-1 is annotated 'Copied from Papas' Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed and dated: E S Swainson March 1859 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Black conte crayon on tinted paper 202 x 136 mm

Date: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-010

Description: The Hutt river in the distance with tree ferns Copy of pencil drawing (92 x 132 mm) copied by Mary Marshall from original by W. Swainson. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Microfilm printout, 238 x 167 mm

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: 1849 - 1852

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1845-1853. [Additional Manuscript 19953. File prints].

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-143-063

Description: A burial cave with skulls on the floor, a tree trunk passing through a hole in the roof. The scene is near Auckland. A tree fern with two Maori standing alongside in Hutt Forest, Wellington The same cave, identified as being near Three Kings, Auckland, is shown in E-143-071 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of two lithographs

Date: 1849

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: E-144-091

Description: A tall silver tree fern rising above surrounding bush. Two Maori men to the left, one standing with a stick or spear in his hand, the other seated. The scene is in Hutt Forest The Alexander Turnbull Library holds a copy of this lithograph at A-004-007. There is also a watercolour copy of it by Frederick John White at A-292-075 and two pencil, ink and wash copies by Janetta Maria Cookson at A-048-047 and A-048-048 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph, original 193 x 155 mm

Date: 1847

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

Reference: A-189-004

Description: A large tree fern in a grove of totara Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 82 x 58 mm

Date: 1853

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

Reference: A-048-048

Description: A tree fern in a clearing in Hutt Forest, with three Maori figures at its base Untitled; almost identical to A-048-047, "Fern tree, N.Z.". Copy of lithograph by Cuthbert Clarke after William Swainson (see A-004-007) Inscriptions: Verso - "Copied N.Z. 1853" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 252 x 175 mm

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; College of St. John the Evangelist (Auckland, N.Z.)

Reference: A-004-007

Description: Tree fern, with standing and seated Maori figures Inscribed in pencil following title: "New Zealand". References Ellis, 529, 539 (both in British Library. Add. MS 199531. Trimmed close to image and title; printing details from British Library copy Inscriptions: Inscribed in pencil following title: "New Zealand" The lettters "N" are reversed Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 184 x 152 mm Provenance: Purchased from Susan Elliott, Wellingtton 1985

Date: 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-051

Description: A study of a tree fern Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed: W. Swainson 1848 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: pencil, 180 x 110 mm

Date: 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-017

Description: A tree fern in a bush clearing, probably Hutt Forest Inscriptions: Signed: W. Swainson Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 190 x 138 mm

Date: 1849 - 1850

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

Reference: A-189-017

Description: View looking up the lower reaches of the Hutt River, with bush both sides, including tree ferns. A raupo hut is on the left, amidst bush and close to the river Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed lower left: W & H S Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.5 x 8.2 ins Transfers: Removed from Henry Gabriel Swainson's Journal, 1850-51, M.S. March 1967..

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-018

Description: View across a plain, from a clearing in bush, framed with tree ferns. A man is seated on a log, looking out to the view. A large homestead with two chimneys is in the distance, possibly Herongate, Henry Petre's first home in the Petone area. A range of tall hills is in the distance, probably the eastern Hutt hills Inscriptions: Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4 x 6.5 ins

Date: 1843

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

Reference: A-190-004

Description: The trunk of a kahikitea with a rata vine climbing up it, to the right, and a tall tree fern emerging from lower bush to the left. Hawkeshead was Swainson's own house and land Note on back as to the fate of the trees Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Inscriptions: On Mount: Great Black Fern & White Pine, Hawkshead, N.Z. d. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 7.5 x 5.3 ins

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: 1848 - 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848; Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-292-075

Description: A copy, with some variations of a lithograph from an original drawing by William Swainson 'Fern-Tree', lithographed by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland in 1849. Both versions show the central tree-fern with its dead branches hanging around the trunk, a standing (armed with a spear) Maori male and a seated Maori woman to the left of the trunk and low scrub beyond. White's watercolour has the addition of another Maori male walking off into the bushes to the right of the trunk of the tree-fern. It is possible that White copied Swainson's drawing, rather than Clarke's lithograph version of this view. See A-004-007 for a copy of the lithograph, which is very rare, and in which Clarke has accidentally reversed the Ns in Swainson's name, and almost in the title, although that is corrected. See also White's 'Black tree-fern' (A-292-073), which tends to suggest that White was copying Swainson's drawing, rather than the lithograph, because it is not reversed, like the lithograph. However the fact that both of Swainson's drawings that he is known to have copied were lithographed by Clarke in Auckland, may suggest that White saw the drawings in Auckland. T. B. Collinson, amongst whose sketches the watercolours by Fred White are located, visited St John's College and White, a fellow member of the Royal Marines, may have visited with him and seen the Swainson drawings there.. Other Titles - Fern-Tree, after William Swainson and Cuthbert Clarke. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Fred. J. White [in red-brown brushpoint]; Recto - top right - 64 [in pencil, numbered by T. B. Collinson. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gouache on paper, 331 x 236 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1858

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-191-011

Description: Shows a silver tree fern (punga) standing beneath three taller trees. There is a fallen log in the foreground. The location is probably close to Swainson's property (now central Lower Hutt). Other Titles - Pukatea Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Verso - centre - W.S. / 58 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 150 x 110 mm, mounted on sheet 282 x 216 mm. Provenance: The vendor purchased this from a Wellington dealer in the early 1990s.

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