Places

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-023

Description: 1. 'Kai Warra Warra Hutt Road near Wellington'. View looking north along the waterfront towards Petone, with a low bridge in the foreground and the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other buildings viewed from across the stream. 2. 'Harbour Wellington New Zealand looking towards te Aro Flat. Barracks on the Hill side Mount Cook'. This has the court house and Thistle Inn in the foreground, lower Mulgrave Street, and looks south across the harbour towards Te Aro, with the highest buildings being the barracks on Mount Cook. 3. 'Wairarapa Race Course blackguard. Bobby Naikoi' shows a ferocious-looking Maori man in European clothes, wearing a cap Quantity: 2 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & wash, watercolour or ink & watercolour, sizes vary

Date: 1850

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-050-007

Description: Shows view from above Mechanics Bay, looking across to North Head with Rangitoto in the background. A clearing with native bush in the foreground, with a seated and a standing Maori man with a taiaha, a European on horseback, and a bullock-drawn cart. The roofs of several houses are visible below the clearing and at a higher point on the right. Dating: Clarke arrived in New Zealand in 1849. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Signed: C Clarke del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Drawing ; pencil 249 x 348 mm

Date: 1848 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-089-001

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.

Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1851

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand

Reference: PUBL-0032-5

Description: Shows a Maori whare with porch and doorway, and a carved figure at the front end of the ridgepole. A man and woman in the left foreground, and three others figures stand or sit at the front of the whare. At the extreme right, two figures take a canoe to the water's edge. Another whare with a thatched roof appears in the bushes near the water. All figures are dressed in a mixture of traditional and European clothing, some in cloaks, some in blankets over shirts or dresses. Other Titles - Hauraki Pa There is also a two-tone lithograph of this image at C-054-008. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 hand-coloured lithograph, 270 x 396 mm

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1845 - 1860

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: A-113-003

Description: Three Maori seated in the foreground at the edge of a curved river bank with the palisades and a whare or part of a pa to the right. Cabbage trees, flax and manuka trees and other taller trees on a plain. In the middle ground is a European house and outbuildings surrounded by a fence, at the foot of a prominent hill, with other hills in the background to the left. The scene bears a strong resemblance to a view of Kaiapoi, early 1850s, a watercolour in the Canterbury Museum by Charles Haubro. However, the hills in the background make a location further inland in Canterbury more likely. Norman was in the Wellington Region from 1842 to 1845. He is not known to have visited the Waikato area, a location suggested by the Auckland seller of the drawing. He is known to have visited as far north as Auckland itself. In the 1850s until his death in 1872 he was based in the South Island, in Canterbury and South Canterbury, and his undated drawing of Nelson is also in the Library's collection. One possible location for this view is Rangitumau, with the prominent hill being Mount Rangitumau (north of Masterton in the Wairarapa) and the river being either the Whangaehu or the Kopuaranga. If the scene is a Wairarapa one, it is likely to date from between 1842 to 1845. Other Titles - Rangitumau, Wairarapa? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ed Norman Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia and blue pen and ink 196 x 248 mm