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Date: 1846 - 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-043

Description: View from Kaiwharawhara, looking across Thorndon Flat towards Te Aro and Mt Victoria. The Hotel at Kaiwharawhara is in the foreground and Hoggard & Simmonds windmill at the foot of Marjoribanks Street on Mt Victoria is clearly shown in the background. Kaiwharawhara stream is bridged and there is a Maori canoe pulling in to the stream mouth. The Mount Cook Barracks, shown as a single large building on top of Mt Cook are also depicted in the background. Simmonds & Hoggards Flourmill was built in 1843. Crawford returned to Wellington in 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash on paper 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1840

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-025-016

Description: Shows the Nairn River winding between bush-clad banks away to the harbour of Port Wakefield (Waitangi, Chatham Island). There are ships in the distance, and the whole is framed by foreground trees, including tree ferns. Shows the area known as Maungatukarewa. Another copy of this, approximately half-size, is held in the State Archives of Hamburg, along with a lithograph of the view. The watercolour was probably copied by Heaphy and was supplied to a group of Hamburg merchants who were interested in buying the Chatham Islands from the New Zealand Company and establishing a colony there. Reproduced as a Turnbull Print, 1964. Other Titles - Nairn Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 460 x 570 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection