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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: 1845 - 1850

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

By: Merrett, Joseph Jenner, 1815-1854; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-143-014

Description: Three views on one page. The top view is a lithograph of Taita Stockade, in a clearing, with hills beyond. The central view is a seated Maori woman, named Taki. She is wrapped in a blanket. The lowest view is an extensive view over Tamaki, with farms, the harbour, clumps of bush. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph and of two ink and wash drawings

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-187-050

Description: A traveller on a low hill beneath tall trees, with a cabbage tree to the right. He is overlooking a bush-clad valley and hills Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 112 x 165 mm

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-187-047

Description: The Swainson family home in Lower Hutt, two storied with a gable window in its thatched roof in the upper storey. The house stands in a bush clearing, with another house to its left. Bush-clad hills in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. Swainson Ap. 1845.; Recto - bottom right - W. S. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 216 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903

Reference: A-190-020

Description: A hut in a clearing with the river in the background, trees nearby Title and date from back: probably added at later date possibly by Edith Swainson Artist's monogram matches that of William Swainson; however the style is not typical of his work. He did not commonly use ink and wash; nor is he known to have visited Manawatu, where his daughter Edith lived. He may have redrawn or drawn over and initialled a drawing of hers. There are a number of drawings of areas not visited by William Swainson, but drawn by his offspring, which he has initialled Inscriptions: bottom left - Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia watercolour, 134 x 187 mm

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: 1845

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

Reference: A-189-016

Description: A view of Somes Island seen beyond large waves, with seagulls in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 3.9 x 5.8ins

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-189-009

Description: A rata twining around a large pukatea tree on Alzdorf's farm in the Hutt Valley Other Titles - Alzdorf's Pukatea Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 8.2 x 4.8 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: 1845

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

Reference: A-189-015

Description: Somes Island seen from Wellington with a background of the eastern hills, across stormy seas. Several gulls flying in the foreground. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 4 x 5 inches

Date: 1842 - 1845

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

Reference: A-187-059

Description: View looking north towards Mana Island in the distance, with headlands to the right. A sailing ship is in the water in the foreground. A view from on board ship in Cook Strait, perhaps from the vicinity of Makara or Ohau Point. Title on back. See also A-187-056 Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 90 x 165 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-058

Description: Shows a plank hut and fence in the foreground, a small house in the background, in the Hutt Forest, Hutt Valley. The buildings are in a small clearing amidst tall trees, one to the left with a branching and a double trunk from about half-way up probably being the 'many-branched pine' referred to in the title Title from verso, partly obliterated It is not known whether the 'pine' referred to in the title is a rimu (red pine) or kahikitea (white pine). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - initials and date; also partially obliterated title on verso Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 157 x 228 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-191-010

Description: Shows a view looking southward along the footpath, site of the present Hutt Road and rocky shoreline, with the two-storeyed Kaiwharawhara Hotel building, and roofs of a few houses in Thorndon Quay visible in the distance. Two figures are walking along the shore in the middle distance. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W.S.; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 123 x 168 mm. Provenance: The vendor purchased this from a Wellington dealer in the early 1990s.

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-189-010

Description: A young rata developed into an interesting shape, divided into two and overlapping itself at the base as it climbs a larger tree trunk Title from former mount, discarded 1970s Other Titles - Alzdorf's Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W.S. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 209 x 128 mm

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-189-007

Description: A young rata vine twisting round the trunk of a large tree. In the background is the Hutt River and a European house, possibly Alzdorf's farmhouse Title from former mount, now discarded Other Titles - Alzdorf's Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W.S. 1845. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 208 x 129 mm

Date: 1845 - 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-049

Description: Shows two thatched rush cottages with steeply pitched roofs and slab chimneys, and with a stake fence between them. In the foreground is a pond or swamp with rushes. At the left of the left hut is a Maori figure standing with a spear. There are hills are in the background. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [Immediately beside mounted image] 58; [At extreme top right of mat] 6 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 193 mm, mounted on sheet 236 x 304 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1845 - 1850

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

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-295-q-045

Description: Dense bush, probably in the Hutt Valley, including cabbage trees and flax as well as taller trees. Two men with large axes are hacking at the trunks of tall trees Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 75 x 106 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-464-027

Description: Shows a cow in a bush setting, which includes a young palm and a tree fern Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WS [artist's initials, in pencil]; Backing board recto - beneath image - Young palm and tree fern, Hutt Valley NZd [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash on paper, 135 x 115 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Bethunes at Webb's, March 2010