Places

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; 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: 1894

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: B-116-014

Description: Shows a stretch of the Whanganui River at Aramoho, with a large two-storeyed house amongst trees and lawn on the far side. The house is probably Sedgebrook (or Sedge Brook) Grange. Two girls walk along a riverside path in the foreground, and on the river six adults and one or two children pass by in a rowboat, near a flight of wooden steps leading down to the river. Probably shows Sedgebrook Grange, the house of Major John Nixon. The original Sedgebrook Grange burned down and was rebuilt in 1882 Other Titles - Aramoho, Whanganui Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Aubrey / 1894 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 270 x 440 mm. Provenance: Previously purchased by the vendor in New Zealand in the 1970s or early 1980s (information from International Art Centre)

Date: 1896

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906

Reference: C-014-014

Description: A view looking south-west over New Plymouth in 1896, showing houses and streets of the period. The Roman Catholic Convent and St Joseph's Church are at the right. In the distance is Paritutu and the Sugarloaf Islands. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 280 x 433 mm. Provenance: Previously in a private collection, Auckland.

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