Places

Date: 1852

From: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 1] 1851-1852

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895

Reference: E-332-072

Description: Shows a view looking down from slightly above, on four farm buildings with thatched roofs and sod chimneys. There is flax in the foreground, and the gorge of the river can be seen in the left middle distance. The tail of a dog called Harry is visible in the right foreground (his body being out of frame). Other Titles - Kakaho Gorge Other Titles - Waiaukarua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 182 x 229 mm.

Date: 1891

Reference: 1/2-020706-F

Description: A portrait of the chief Tapu Hirawana Maitarawai and his wife Rohana, 1891. They are standing at the door of a wooden house with a thatched roof. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Chatham Islands; Recto - beneath image - The Moriori chief Tapu Hirawana Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1871-1873]

Reference: E-016-1-050

Description: A small thatched cottage, a chimney at the left end, close to the shore. A rowboat is pulled up in the foreground. Barrels and a small fence to the left, two small huts to the right, a signal mast on Lookout Point, the hill behind. The picture is enclosed in an arched outline. Rain is indicated in the sky. The same cottage appears in a larger view of Bluff (dated May 1873) on the following page of the sketchbook. The roof in the larger drawing is noted as made of raupo Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sketchbook page, 78 x 148 mm (page size)

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: [ca1880-ca1895]

From: Romeril, George, 1844-1922 :Photographs relating to Chatham Islands

Reference: PA1-o-1333-45

Description: Settlement at Torotoro, Chatham Island. Two men and four horses stand in the foreground in front of a thatched house and out-building made of tree fern logs. A stand of native forest rises behind the buildings. (Information from George hough and Bill Carter). Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 20 x 14.5 cm, mounted on album page, 30.5 x 24 cm

Date: 1840 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-001

Description: Shows dwelling with what appears to be battened-down thatch roofing. There is a stream on the left, and the house stands in a cleared area of bush. The station was established by Clifford and Weld. First sheep station in New Zealand, established in Wairarapa by Mr C Clifford in 1843. Compare an almost identical copy (but on brown paper) in Mein Smith's hand from the collection of William Swainson, located at A-024-019. This copy appears to include a vegetable garden at the front of the house. Other Titles - Wharekaka Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] / W.M.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 115 x 165 mm

Date: 1841 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s; Swainson, Edwin Newcombe, 1833-1913

Reference: A-190-013

Description: Shows three huts with steep-pitched thatched roofs, rush walls and small windows. The central hut is enclosed by a small wooden fence. The one at right foreground has a high stone chimney. A man is applying flax or rushes to the walls. In extreme right foreground grows a flax bush. There are hills in the background. The furthest cottage may be the building used as the first courthouse; see note for work at A-190-014. Other Titles - Huts, Petone Inscriptions: Verso - top right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on paper.. Physical Description: Pencil, 113 x 211 mm. Provenance: Previously collection of Edwin Swainson

Date: 1841

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-05

Description: A general and close-up view of the new settlement of Petre or Wanganui (also known as Whanganui) just after its establishment. The thatched roofing of a house is being completed by two men in the foreground and men are hauling timber for other buildings along the foreshore and from a small boat at the river's edge. Fences divide off other houses and the nearest house on the far left, middle distance is identified as Dr Peter Wilson's house, the building being thatched is the Police Office and Police Magistrate's house, a larger one is Mr E. J. Wakefield's house (ware Wikitoria), and two other are Mr Henry Churton's houses. The large cliff across the river is Shakespeare's Cliff. The accompanying text reads: This is four miles from the mouth of the river, on the north shore of Cook's Strait, 110 miles from Wellington. The snowy mountain to the extreme left is Tonga Riro [Tongariro], seventy miles distant. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 369 mm

Date: 1873

From: [Hodgkins, William Mathew] 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook, 1871-1873]

Reference: E-016-1-052

Description: Looking north-west along the waterfront, with small houses, a wharf, several sailing ships and wharf buildings, hills in the background One house has an annotation on the roof 'raupo'. It is likely to be 'Mother McGregor's hut', the thatched roof cottage at drawn by Hodgkins on the previous page Other Titles - Westward Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two sketchbook pages, 78 x 221 mm (image size)

Date: 1843 - 1850

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-019

Description: The Ruamahanga River to the left, and Clifford and Weld's sheep station homestead in front of bush in the centre and right. The roof appears to be made of battened-down thatch, and the plants in front may be rows of vegetables. A slab chimney is on the left end of the single-storey house. Prior to January 2000, catalogued as Cottage by William Swainson; however comparison with an almost identical signed and titled pencil drawing at A-035-001 shows it to be of Wharekaka and by William Mein Smith. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on brown paper, 106 x 151 mm (sight) Provenance: Collection of William Swainson, possibly given to him by the artist.

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-043-023

Description: Shows a thatched building with two chimneys near the shore at Waikanae, with Kapiti Island in the distance. A few of the poles and palisades of the pa at Waikanae are visible at the far left. Two figures walk in the centre right foreground. Jenkins' was the first European building at Waikanae, owned by William Jenkins. Backing board (accompanying) has clipping about William Jenkins from a published source. Jenkins' cottage survived until 1986, when it was demolished as beyond repair Other Titles - Waikanae Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jenkins House; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on joined paper, total 72 x 146 mm.

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936

Reference: A-196-015

Description: Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond. Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868. Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 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: [ca 1884]

From: Williams, Edgar Richard, 1891-1983: Photographs and papers

Reference: 1/1-025941-G

Description: From left to right: F W Devereux, T H Wyatt, Okiwi Brown and Nan Brown, outside the Browns' residence and boarding house in Rona Bay, Eastbourne. Photograph taken by William Williams, circa 1884. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).