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Date: 1842 - 1847

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

Reference: A-259-041

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 2003 - 1890 - 1930

By: Chaplow's Picture Framing & Restoration (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-2003-01

Description: Postcards depicting: Maori bank Bridge over the Hutt River ca 1924; Main Road Upper Hutt ca 1890s; Transporting logs in the Akatarawa Valley ca 1912-1916; Fell engine on the Rimutaka Incline ca 1890; Main Street Upper Hutt ca 1940; Hazelwood's Store Main Road Upper Hutt ca 1906; Silverstream Rail Bridge Upper Hutt ca 1925. Quantity: 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs on postcards Provenance: Donated by the publisher in 2004.

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-049-026/028

Description: Three Wellington area views. The top view looks down the Hutt river, showing dense bush on both sides. The clearings on the distant hills are Maori gardens. The middle view looks along the Hutt Road from Petone towards Wellington in the distance; the lower view looks up Tinakore Road (then called Karori Road) past the junction with Hawkestone Street. Brees' house is on the left and a large kahikitea tree is alongside the road. Also shown are the houses of Mr 'Joah' Wakefield and the former residence of Mr de Bathe Brandon. Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 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: 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 - 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-056

Description: Shows a straight road through an area of native bush including beech trees, with tall trees at left and right. There are two young lancewood trees in the extreme right foreground, and two sawn-down tree trunks beside them. Three figures walk along the road, two of them together and one further off. There is a range of hills in the distance. Other Titles - Through; Beech Forest; October Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - 28 Oct 47; Recto - bottom right - [Initials and date]; Recto - bottom right - [At extreme lower right of sheet] 28 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 202 x 150 mm, on sheet 275 x 214 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

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: 1867

From: Hawkins, William Webster, 1842-1918 :Illustrations of New Zealand 1865?-1867

Reference: E-370-006-1

Description: Three men and four horses on a road in Upper Hutt or Te Marua district heading towards the Rimutaka Road. At the back is the artist on a very fat pony belonging to Bishop Selwyn; near him is a farmer named Speedy and in front is the farmer's friend "Jim" riding one horse and leading a second. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, 100 x 205 mm