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Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: D-032-002

Description: Shows a view of Wellington and Wellington Harbour as far as the Hutt Valley. The view includes the Terrace and Terrace prison, the streets and buildings of Oriental Bay and Te Aro on the flat, including gasometers, chimneys and churches (St John's and St Peter's Willis Street), the houses on Mount Victoria, Somes Island. Three cows and a calf are attended by a man with a staff, in the foreground. The image is similar to that at C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but extends further on either side. The scale is very similar, but the images of the buildings are not identical. Unlike most other Aubrey works held in the Library, both of these pictures use some gum arabic in the foreground. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey 1888 Very similar to C-030-025, "[Te Aro and Wellington Harbour]", but includes detail on both sides missing in Te Aro and Wellingon Harbour. Unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 531 x 918 mm. Provenance: Possibly owned by Ivan Napier, Greytown, 1970s or early 1980s. In Harnett & Wedde winter antique auction, 1987, purchased Brierley's Ltd, Wellington.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-025

Description: Shows Australian squadron (Orlando, Calliope, Opal, Raven, Lizard & Rapid) in Wellington harbour, Jan. 1889 View includes The Terrace on the left, Te Aro Street in the foreground, Willis Street with St John's and St Peter's spires. The gasworks are also prominent on the shore, towards Oriental Bay on the right. The view is very similar to the central part of the work at D-032-002, and the scale of the drawing is very similar. Like D-032-002, "Wellington from Brooklyn", but unlike most other Aubrey works held by the Library, this work uses some gum arabic in the foreground. Reproduced 1979 as one of ATL Endowment Trust prints Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey 1889 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and gum arabic, 330 x 510 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-038-007

Description: Shows the rocky outcrops in the sea off the coast at Island Bay, Wellington. Taputerangi Island is in the sea in the background Possibly drawn from the home of Robert Martin, of The Parade, Island Bay. The view from his house, (still standing by 2010) is very similar to this view. He was a painter and paperhanger, and stockist of artists' materials in his Manners Street shop Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white, 190 x 283 mm

Date: 1888

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-014-013

Description: Shows a view looking towards Wellington Harbour from the lower northern slopes of Kelburn, with part of the Bolton Street Cemetery at the left, and three horses grazing in the right foreground. Beyond the cemetery is the Parliamentary Library, with the spire of St Mary's Hill Street at the far left. In the centre are the old Parliament Buildings, and the wooden Government Buildings are on the right. Old St Pauls is beyond the Parliamentary Library, the Terrace Congregational Church (corner Bowen Street and the Terrace) is in the centre, and St Andrews-on-the-Terrace is at the far right. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 440 x 750 mm.

Date: 1889

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-023

Description: View from the south end of Oriental Bay looking north toward Wellington, showing rowing boat, boat-sheds, cows in field, houses, Oriental Parade and Oriental Terrace The large red house on the hill, upper left, was known as 'Thomas's Folly' and was built of Australian hardwood by Sir Godfrey John Thomas, half-brother to Sir George Grey, then later owned by Alfred Maurice Lewis of Thompson Lewis. The wood used for this house was said to have been left over from the Government Buildings in Lambton Quay. The large white house, also on the left, but lower, in Wilkinson Street (leading to Grass Street), was first owned by a Mr Wilkinson. The single-storey house on the corner of Hay Street was owned by a Mr Laurence Arcus. Painting has been trimmed. Supplied title Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [C.A]ubrey Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 249 x 499 mm on sheet 306 x 543 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: D-022-008

Description: Shows Tarureka homestead, (the home of James Donald) a two-storeyed house with verandah along the front of the lower level, in centre of picture, with two outbuildings to the left. To the immediate left is a large barn, built in 1870. Further left, is a building with a tall smoking chimney. It may be the butter factory opened in 1881. On the road in the foreground, an elegantly-dressed man and woman on horses gallop by. Two children stand watching in the right foreground. On the driveway to the house is another man on horseback, and two women and a man stand close to the house. Accompanied by typescript label with historical details about the family. The name Tarureka, according to "Memories of South Wairarapa" pp 24-26 (NZ & P q993.1 MEM), means "grass, or sweet herbs". The family of James Donald moved to Featherston in 1870 (from South Featherston) into this new house. The butter factory started operation in 1881. The Donald family still lived in the house in the 1980s? or 1990s. By 2009 the house had become a wedding and conference venue, owned by the Forlong family Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Aubrey /90 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 380 x 690 mm.

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-126-008

Description: Shows wooden church with high roofed aisle, clerestory windows, flanked by side aisles. [West?] entrance door is under wooden spire. To the right is the wooden church hall. Both are seen behind wooden fence beyond road in foreground. At left a man on horseback rides along road towards left distance. A man and woman with parasol stand in left foregrround, and a woman and child stand outside the church fence on the opposite side of the road. See earlier correspondence about the disposal of this painting. AT 10/14, 22 December 1994. Inscription below painting (valid 1990s?): A C. Aubrey ink & watercolour study of the first St Matthew's Church and hall situated in the church acre, corner of Church and Dixon Streets, Masterton, at the turn of the 20th century. The church was demolished about 1914, but the hall was shifted to the present site, & is used by youth groups, behind the present parish hall, Church Street, Masterton. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C. Aubrey /90 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 382 x 595 mm.

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-018

Description: Shows a view of a farmstead and outbuildings, on the higher side of the road in the foreground. A child supervises two cows entering a farm gateway through the mud, for milking, while two other cows await them near a shed. There is a formal garden in front of the house, and the trees around the homestead are pine and yew or cypress. The background hills are partially covered in bush. The small cottage immediately to the right of the main house is probably the one that later became 'Pumpkin Cottage', the centre for a group of artists. According to J M Kenneally's "Upper Hutt; reflections from the past", "The Cotter family initally acquired one of the original 100 acre sections in the valley [and] later purchased a further 880 acres which were sold in 1926 to St Patrick's College". Apart from the modern framer's label, there is as yet no evidence to confirm whether this painting shows a house on the St Pat's site or the earlier site. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Aubrey / 1890 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 370 x 560 mm (sight) Provenance: Previous owner until 1986: Mr R. Flynn, Petone.

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-030-031

Description: A view of the town, looking north-east from an elevated position, probably the Featherton Domain, showing a cattle-musterer on horseback driving cows down a hill path in the right foreground, animals grazing, and the grid of the town's streets and houses in the middle distance, with Lake Wairarapa visible at the far right Compare photo of Featherston from the Domain in: Memories of South Wairarapa. Featherston, 1981 (q993.1. MEM) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 430 x 780 mm