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Date: 1873 - 1877

By: Horsfall, John Atherton, 1819-1900

Reference: B-079-032

Description: A broad view of the Hutt Valley, with a dirt road dug into the side of a hill to the right (probably Normandale Hill road), the river meandering across the valley, a few scattered houses and the Wainuiomata Hill Road visible in the distance across the valley Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 267 x 388 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-039

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1848 - 1851

By: Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863; Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-030-001

Description: Shows Maori launching a canoe; a horse and cart are on the road to the right, at the base of a cliff Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030/002. Both slips removed in the course of conservation and no longer present. There is a faint pencil drawing of a bush scene on the verso. The backing of the work has been partially removed and the drawing is hard to see. This work was attributed by the Library to Cuthbert Clarke until 2008. However Clarke is not known to have visited the Wellington region and the style appears closer to that of R. A. Oliver, who was based in Wellington and visited the Hutt Valley on more than one occasion. One watercolour of the Hutt by Oliver is dated March 1848, another September 30th, with no year. Compare the articulation of the figure dragging the canoe at the right, with a figure in the same position, dragging a canoe at Wahapu, Bay of Islands, in Oliver's watercolour at C-001-011 Other Titles - Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1819-1863. 1848-1851 Inscriptions: Recto - 'Title taken from handwritten slip on back; compare with slip on back of B-030-002' according to catalogue card. Neither hand-written slip has been retained. The wording of the title suggests a later attribution, not the artist's own title. For location of this view compare with Charles Barraud's "[River valley] 1856" at B-084-005; and with G Swainson's "Road round the second gorge", lithograph in British Library - see file print of this at E-143-067. Several of Swainson's lithographs are after originals by other artists. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 327 mm

Date: 1848

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, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-143-006

Description: Looking north into the Hutt Valley with a road at the foot of a cliff, hills and native forest on the opposite side. A landscape alongside water, with a waka, hills in the background, a seated Maori among trees in the foreground. A Maori man crouching and sighting along the barrel of his musket. A flax bush behind Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph and of sepia ink and wash drawing

Date: 1840

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

By: Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870

Reference: E-143-067-1

Description: Looking down the Hutt River with the road on the right. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of lithograph

Date: 1856

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-084-005

Description: Shows a curve in a river, possibly the Rangitikei, or the Upper Hutt river. There is a road at the right, with two horsemen riding along on a more distant stretch. There are two distinctive branches sticking up out of the river bed in the foreground. See resemblance to Barraud's "Rangitikei River 1861" There are also similarities to Cuthbert Clarke's "[Upper Hutt River in the early 1850s]", and to G. Swainson's "Road around the second gorge" - British Library - see file print in E-143-067. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 385 mm

Date: 1847 - 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-003

Description: The narrow road above one side of the Hutt River, looking north. A large tree stump is on the edge of the road Other Titles - 2nd Zealand Inscriptions: Glued to back of window mat: title in ink in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 84 x 131 mm (sight)

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: B-049-006/008

Description: View looking south from the hill at Lowry Bay towards the seal the Aglionby Arms and surrounding houses alongside the Hutt River, with a Maori canoe in the foreground; a rocky foreshore at Porirua, looking south towards the hills Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1847

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

Reference: A-189-013

Description: The road on the bank above one side of the Hutt River Probably Taita Gorge. See Brees. Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, plate 7, no. 22 and text p. 15. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 155 x 120 mm

Date: 1844 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-002

Description: Looking along the Hutt River with a high narrow track skirting the steep hills on the right. Several figures are on the track Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 98 x 160 mm

Date: 1851

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-028

Description: View looking downstream with partially cleared hills and the river. On the left is a dirt road with a European figure walking along it and other small figures in the distance. On a bank of the river in the background is a Maori figure close to a small canoe. The area shown is the Taita district. Reproduced 1972 as one of the Turnbull Library Prints (see copy at C-028) Other Titles - First Inscriptions: Verso - [title in black ink]; Recto - bottom left - Drawn by Capt. W. M. Smith R. A. 1851 [in red ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 250 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cobham, Samuel, 1799-1881

Reference: MapColl-832.4794gbbd/1856?/Acc.17028

Description: The main map of the freehold estate, with frontage and depth measurements, is adjacent to the part of the Hutt River marked as the only place fordable in case of accident to the bridge which leads to Plowman Street. The site of the Hutt Bridge is marked downstream. A minor change to the riverbank as at Aug. 1860, has been added at a later date. A road, pencilled in and also added at a later date, is marked 'Road as on ground.' Betweeen Plowman Street and the site of the Mechanics Institute are three sections, labelled allotments. The first includes the site of a well, while the third has a site of a house in which the store room, kitchen, parlour and bedroom are named. All three allotments are marked as sold. Paddocks are marked with measurements in roods and perches, one including a slaughter house and stockyard. A lake is marked in the vicinity of the street provisionally planned for the bridge approach. An area of land is labelled 'Street as originally laid out, but the situation of the bridge will render it useless as a street.' This has been divided into lots. Lot A is annotated 'To be given to Mr Ploughman' [sic]. Lot B 'Reserve for a lockup'.' Lot C 'Given to Capt. Daniell to compensate for road taken out of his ground'. Includes an annotation 'W. Fox, Ch. L. Court'. The leasehold estate, with frontage measurements, includes the site of houses with a dairy, kitchen, parlour and bedrooms marked. A second site includes the parlour, shop and verandah. Originally one lot, this was divided into two at a later date. Note on verso states: Plan of Plowmans estate, which has Riddiford written across it and has also been struck through and Mr Riddiford's Plans written underneath Signature of Cobham in bottom right corner Note on catalogue card states that Cobham arrived ca1854 Quantity: 2 manuscript map(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Ink, pencil and colourwash on paper, linen backed, 56 x 75.6 cm.

Date: 1852 - 1853

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

Reference: E-455-f-067-2

Description: A road winding up a hill with the Hutt River below. Three men on horseback on the road, with two Maori walking below. A large flax and a small nikau palm are in the left foreground 1852 or 1853 date suggested from the dated drawings on surrounding pages of the sketchbook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 138 x 226 mm

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-019

Description: A gorge with a river, probably the upper Hutt River in the centre. A steep bank to the left, with a road dug into the bank and two travellers moving along the road. Tall trees grow up the bank to the skyline. Flax in the left foreground and cabbage trees on the river flat to the right Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 26 Oct 1847 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 5.4 x 7.25 ins

Date: 1852

Reference: A-034-002

Description: Looking down the river with the road on the left. A figure is visible on the road in the middle distance The watercolour is disfigured with flyspots Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 254 mm