Places

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

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

Reference: B-049-047/049

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows the house of William Wakefield (the site of the Beehive) looking up The Terrace beyond. The central view is of Captain Daniell's sawmill on the Kaiwharawhara stream. A bullock cart is carrying logs to the right, several men are resting in the foreground, there are piles of tree trunks in the foreground, and tall bush in the background. The lowest view shows the bank on the corner of Willis Street and Manners Street with soldiers marching by, from the barracks next door to the bank. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-465-008

Description: Shows a view looking up the Hutt River towards the hills in the distance. The banks of the river are wooded, and there is a group of tree trunks in the river in the left foreground Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 104 x 155 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1940-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-007

Description: Various papers, much of which are copied from the Old Land Claims series - National Archives. The evidence relates to whaling and sealing operations throughout New Zealand giving details of whalers, their stations, and the Maori communities they interacted with. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-190-022

Description: A clearing in bush, with a single-storey bark hut on a rock or clay bank beside a small stream. A tall mamaku (tree fern) is in front of the hut, with a seated and a standing Maori figure. Other tree ferns and bush are beyond, with hills. A raupo is in the foreground beside the stream. The scene is likely to be at the foot of the western or eastern hills in the Hutt Valley. Other Titles - Native bark hut and tree fern, Lower Hutt Valley Inscriptions: Verso - Native bark hut and black fern. Lower Hutt Valley. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 180 x 120 mm

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-343-006

Description: Shows a view looking up the Hutt River towards the hills in the distance. The banks of the river are wooded, and there is a group of tree trunks in the river in the left foreground. Cut from original format of three engravings on one page. 'Upper Hutt' at top; 'Petone Road' centre; 'Mr Brees cottage' at bottom. ATL holds book at Art Rm: 919.31 BRE. Extended Title - From S C Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, J Williams, 1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 94 x 146 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-033

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River, with the river bending to the right, and tall trees on the left bank behind the Aglionby Arms Brees in his text to "Pictorial Illustrations" notes: "the nucleus of a village has been formed by Mr Daniel Riddiford, on his section, no.17, in the Lower Hutt, which he has names Aglionby, and Mr Burcham has built an hotel there, for the accommodation of visitors to this fine district ... the white population residing [in the valley of the Hutt] amounted to 644 at the beginning of the year 1845". Original for lithograph in Brees, S C Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, no 7. Inscriptions: On back: Dan Riddiford's stock yard on left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with gum arabic 202 x 282 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-016

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest with a European building with a large thatched roof amidst the trunks of tall trees. A nikau palm to the right and a seated figure at the base of one tree trunk. Two cows in the left foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 2.5 x 4 ins

Date: 1840 - 1845

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

Reference: A-190-006

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with a huge rata tree in the middle distance, two men standing at its base, and a triangular raupo hut to its right Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.2 x 3.7 ins

Date: 1845 - 1855

Reference: A-035-009

Description: View along the Manawatu River, with a small chapel, with thatched roof in a clearing among bush on the right bank. A small canoe is crossing the river, futher up. The place name Te Maire is no longer current in the Manawatu district Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 127 x 190 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-050

Description: A traveller on a low hill beneath tall trees, with a cabbage tree to the right. He is overlooking a bush-clad valley and hills Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 112 x 165 mm

Date: 1845

By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898

Reference: B-198-008

Description: View from the hills above Tuamarina, looking south, with dense bush in the foreground, grassy plains along the shore to the left, the passage of streams marked by trees, a stand of bush in the centre distance marking the site of Grovetown, with the site of Blenheim to its right, the Wither Hills in the far distance. Two men are standing in the foreground viewing the scene. One has a pack on his back, and a walking stick, and gestures with his left hand toward the vista. The other man smokes a pipe and carries an axe The yellow toning of the grasses suggests that they are native grasses, shown prior to European burning off in preparation for farming Richard Airey put together a provenance statement and ownership history for the painting, September 2015 (Clio #562825) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - art of Wairau. Bell. July 1845 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 260 x 370 mm Provenance: The painting had been in Richard Airey's extended family, held in both New Zealand and England, since the 1840s

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-187-058

Description: Shows a plank hut and fence in the foreground, a small house in the background, in the Hutt Forest, Hutt Valley. The buildings are in a small clearing amidst tall trees, one to the left with a branching and a double trunk from about half-way up probably being the 'many-branched pine' referred to in the title Title from verso, partly obliterated It is not known whether the 'pine' referred to in the title is a rimu (red pine) or kahikitea (white pine). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - initials and date; also partially obliterated title on verso Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 157 x 228 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-029

Description: View from the Hutt Gorge, with a road to the left, a man leading a horse and a dog into a bush-clad area, the Hutt River meandering between bush-clad banks in the distance See Illustrated London News, p 37 Jan 16 1847 for a wood engraving from this watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 373 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-047

Description: The Swainson family home in Lower Hutt, two storied with a gable window in its thatched roof in the upper storey. The house stands in a bush clearing, with another house to its left. Bush-clad hills in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. Swainson Ap. 1845.; Recto - bottom right - W. S. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 216 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Scrapbook. [ca 1810-1840]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-295-q-045

Description: Dense bush, probably in the Hutt Valley, including cabbage trees and flax as well as taller trees. Two men with large axes are hacking at the trunks of tall trees Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 75 x 106 mm

Date: 1845 - 1855

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-008

Description: A thatched-roofed house with chimneys at both ends and an outhouse on the left, in a landscape cleared of trees in the foreground and with bush beyond the house. The station of Hugh Morrison (or Morison), initially called Hakeke, later Glenmorven, near the present site of Martinborough. The farmer, his wife and a dog are in front of the house. Other Titles - Morison Morison's Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white on prepared grey paper, 120 x 190 mm (image) on sheet 171 x 235 mm

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-091-8

Description: Shows two trees standing side by side in the foreground, in front of a hilly landscape. The hill in the middle distance is covered with bush. The view is from Matuku Pa, inland Patea, Wanganui Mr Randall Springer of the Whanganui Historical Society has identified this as a view in the Mokai Patea Range east of Utiku, rather than Patea in Taranaki. Dated from information from Taylor's Journal, supplied by Richard Steedman of Taumata Huaora Trust, 3 Nov. 2003. The five sketches at E-296-q-091-1, -091-8, -093-3 and -095-1 are all taken from the same vantage point so as to give a panoramic view Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 90 x 155 mm.

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-091-1

Description: Shows a view from a hilltop across bush-clad hills towards the Ruahine Range. The artist has crossed out his identification of the range as the Tararua Range. The view is from the site of Matuku Pa Mr Randall Springer of the Whanganui Historical Society has identified this as a view in the Mokai Patea Range east of Utiku, rather than Patea in Taranaki. Identified by Richard Steedman, November 2003, as one of five views taken from Matuku Pa, inland Patea, on 13 March 1845. The five sketches are E-296-q-091-1, E-296-q-091-8, -093-1, -093-3, -091-1 and -095-1 Other Titles - Tararua Range Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Ruahine Range. From Patea. [Also, crossed out The Tararua Range] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 90 x 150 mm.

Date: 1845

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-095-1

Description: Shows a view from a hilltop across bush-clad hills towards snow-clad Mount Tongariro. The view is from the site of Matuku Pa Mr Randall Springer of the Whanganui Historical Society has identified this as a view in the Mokai Patea Range east of Utiku, rather than Patea in Taranaki. Identified by Richard Steedman, November 2003, as one of five views taken from Matuku Pa, inland Patea, on 13 March 1845. The five sketches are E-296-q-162, -091-8, -093-1, -093-3 and -095-1 Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Pencil and sepia, 90 x 150 mm.