Places

Date: 1847 - 1966

From: Christmas cards of Ados Chemical Company Ltd, 1965-1969. [Wellington, Ados Chemical Company Ltd]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: E-279-q-057-2

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River with several other houses, cows on the riverside path on the left, a canoe with a seated Maori in the foreground, a barrel being carried from another canoe or rowboat close to the hotel and a bullock team and wagon in the background. Behind the houses and hotel is dense bush. From an original by S C Brees, painted between 1842 and 1845. Original for photo-mechanical print in: Brees, S C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, No 7 Plate 3, published London 1847. The Aglionby Arms on the bank of the Hutt River, stood at the corner of what later became Montague and Mudie streets [Information on Christmas card] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 80 x 126 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-045

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: 1847

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

Reference: A-109-033-a

Description: Shows the saw mill in a clearing in the bush. In the centre foreground a group of five men, some Maori and some pakeha, stand or sit together, holding axes. At the right a man works at a bullock wagon. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1847

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

Reference: E-070-010

Description: Several Maori and European men with axes resting by sawn logs in the foreground. A sawmill building on lower ground in the middle distance in a bush clearing. To the right, a bullock cart with large logs loaded From: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, no. 48, text p 29. Brees notes: "This mill is situated on a tributary of the Kaiwarra-warra, and upon a section belonging to Captain Daniell. ... The works were completed in the month of October 1842 ... It consists of a water wheel placed athwart the stream, which works several circular saws, and the water is dammed up above ..." Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Extended Title - From: Brees, S C Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand. London, 1849 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 117 x 168 mm

Date: 1843 - 1845

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

Reference: B-031-005

Description: Shows the windmill, looking south towards Mount Cook (with the barracks on top in the distance), Brooklyn hills and Te Aro from the foot of Mount Victoria where Oriental Bay Road begins. There is a sandy beach in the left foreground, with a man sifting sand or shells, probably for construction. The man is being watched by three children. Bullock carts are visible at the foot of the windmill and there are several other buildings close to it. There are two hens in the yard close to a house in the right foreground, and a square wooden construction in the right foreground, possibly a small lime-kiln. The windmill, or flourmill, was built in March 1843 at the foot of Marjoribanks Street and Kent Terrace junction, the present site of the Embassy Theatre. It was the only open-structured mill in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 181 x 370 mm

Date: 1847

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington, 47 ; Kai Warra Warra saw mill, 48 ; The Bank, Wellington. 49. Engraved by Henry Melville drawn by S C Brees. [London, 1847]

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

Reference: A-109-033

Description: Kaiwharawhara mill amidst native forest In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. (London, 1847) Plate 16, No. 48. text p.29. Another copy at E-070-010 Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, Hand-coloured 117 x 167 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 3. Lowry Bay District & Road, 6; The Aglionby Arms (Burcham's) River Hutt, 7; Porerua Bay, 8. Engraved by Henry Melville; drawn by S C Brees. [1847]

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

Reference: A-109-024

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River, with several other houses, cows on the riverside path to the left, a canoe with a seated Maori in the foreground, a barrel being carried from another canoe or rowboat close to the hotel and a bullock team and wagon in the background. Behind the houses is dense bush. Brees, S C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, no 7 Plate 3, published London 1847 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" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 124 x 186 mm