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Date: 1840 - 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; F G Moon & Company; Larner, Ivy Ann, active 1958

Reference: C-029-002

Description: Shows aerial view of Wellington Harbour, the Hutt Valley and beyond, from a point south of Wellington Heads. Pencarrow Head is at bottom right. First edition published by F G Moon, lacking map Margins trimmed, including title. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone and hand-coloured 410 x 697 mm

Date: 1842 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm)

Reference: C-029-006-a

Description: Shows aerial view of the harbour from the south of Wellington Heads, with Pencarrow Heads at right foreground. Includes map below image Second edition Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, black and white 360 x 697 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1839 - 1975

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; F G Moon & Company; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-006

Description: Shows Wellington Harbour, the Hutt Valley and beyond, from the air to the south of Wellington Heads. Pencarrow Head is in the bottom right. Miramar Peninsula has a lake in the centre of it. Margins trimmed, including title. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Original 40.5 x 69 mm. Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia.; Recto - bottom right - Avon Fine Prints, no. 5 of an edition of 1000; Recto - bottom right - Printed by C. Hullmandel Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 340 x 584 mm, on sheet 530 x 700 mm.

Date: 1860 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-084-015

Description: Shows a view of Breaker Bay, Wellington, from Pencarrow Head. This is a view of the entrance to Wellington Harbour. There is a cross-shaped mast on top of the hill at the right (possibly Beacon Hill or Mt Albert). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 175 x 256 mm

Date: 1840 - 1839 - 1975

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; F G Moon & Company; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-006-a

Description: Shows Wellington Harbour, the Hutt Valley and beyond, from the air to the south of Wellington Heads. Pencarrow Head is in the bottom right. Miramar Peninsula has a lake in the centre of it. Margins trimmed, including title. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Original 40.5 x 69 mm. Reproduced by courtesy of the National Library of Australia.; Recto - bottom right - Avon Fine Prints, no. 6 of an edition of 1000; Recto - bottom right - Printed by C. Hullmandel Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 340 x 584 mm, on sheet 530 x 700 mm.

Date: 1878

By: Forster, William James, 1851-1891; Crowder, John, active 1986-2000

Reference: D-022-014

Description: Shows a profile portrait of a three-masted sailing ship flying two flags from its mast tops. There is a steamship in the right distance, and Pencarrow Head and lighthouse in the left background. This painting was probably commissioned by the ship's three Wellington owners, or the Master Captain James Lee. The "Poneke" was built in Evans Bay, Wellington, in 1878 by John Rees George. She was 79.98 gross registered tons. Her length was 84.5 feet and beam was 18.9 feet. Initially registered at the port of Wellington on 19 March 1878, with her Master recorded as Stephen Ellis. She was owned by John Rees George, Civil engineer, 1878; Archibald McLeod, timber merchant, 1878-1880, William Waddell, Timber merchant and William Weir, timber merchant. Presumed to have foundered at sea with all hands (6) as she was not seen since being sighted off Greymouth. She had sailed from Onehunga on 11 June 1880. (Information from the seller, John Crowder, 1998) Accompanied by a loose card bearing the title "Poneke". To be mounted on the backing board. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Signed and dated] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 547 mm.

Date: 1877

By: Saxton, Henry Waring, 1848-1919; Sisarich, Warren, active 1980s-1990s

Reference: A-253-036

Description: Shows a profile of Somes Island seen from the region of Seacliff. Shows a large complex of two-storied buildings (newly-built immigration barracks) on the top centre of island, a surveying trig on highest point, and a few small buildings on shoreline. In the left distance, Pencarrow Head lighthouse is visible. The Immigration Barracks are shown in a photograph of Somes Island ca 1878 in the J. E. Fitzgerald Album in the Photographic Archive. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom right - H.W.S. 1877; Recto - beneath image - (on backing paper): So named in memory of Joseph Somes, M.P. Dartmouth, Governor of New Zealand Shipping Co.; Verso - top centre - late) Revd C.W. Saxton D.D. / The Elms / Shrewsbury The artist was the brother-in-law of Joseph Somes, after whom the island was named. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 120 x 198 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Beauchamp family

Reference: C-029-006-b

Description: An aerial view of the harbour and site of the town of Wellington from south of Wellington Heads, looking down onto Miramar Peninsula in the left centre foreground with Burnham Lake, the site of Wellington City to the left, Pencarrow Head at right foreground, the Hutt Valley in the middle distance to the right. Includes map below image Second edition Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 360 x 697 mm. Provenance: Tinakori Gallery purchased lithograph from descendants of Katherine Mansfield's sister (possibly Vera McIntosh Bell) and brother-in-law, who were the previous (original?) owners.

Date: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

Reference: PUBL-0016-04-1

Description: Shows a view looking along the shoreline eastwards from around Princess Bay towards the heads of Wellington Harbour, with the lighthouse on Pencarrow Head visible, and Baring Head beyond. Two canoes are pulled up on the beach at the left, and a steamship heads south out of the heads. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on page of volume.. Physical Description: Engraving, 74 x 152 mm.

Date: 1843 - 1844

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 : Cape Palliser &c [1844?]; [with sketch of Pencarrow Head ca 1843 on verso].

Reference: C-126-024

Description: Pencil sketch is a preliminary drawing for "Pencarrow Head, Fitzroy Bay" Plate 4 (no. 11) in "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", London, Williams, 1847. Shows a view looking west towards Wellington Harbour Heads from Fitzroy Bay, with Pencarrow Head protruding at the right, but not topped by a lighthouse as it is in the published lithgraph. Possibly the preliminary sketch for the watercolour, whose fileprint has the negative number 1/2-024747-F (Privately owned?) Dated from other views of the same area. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on one side of sheet, 222 x 324 mm. (watercolour on other side) Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at an English country auction, 1986 or 1987 by dealer John Barkis. (pers. comm., Brian Groshinski of McArthurs' Auction, 14. 8. 98)