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Date: 1844 - 1846

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938

Reference: B-061-003

Description: A view from below the summit of The Terrace, looking south down onto Te Aro and along the beach towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay. There are houses along the shoreline, a jetty, Manners Street runs parallel to the shore and there are houses dotted back over the flat land. There is low scrub in the foreground Appears to be a copy of the left side of of S C Brees' "Te Aro flat from near Captain Sharpe's residence" which shows Wellington in 1844 or 1845. (Panorama plate 66 in Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, published London, 1847). Some details differ. The road in the left foreground is more marked, there are additional houses stretching back over the valley floor, and several buildings nearer the foreground are different from Brees' engraving, as are the details of the outline of Mount Victoria and the cliffs leading towards Oriental Bay. Several of these differences can also be observed in the wood engraving of the same view published in the Illustrated London News, 'Wellington, Te Aro flat' Sept 11 1847, p. 168, and in a related oil painting in the National Library of Australia. Both this watercolour and the oil painting may be copied from the Illustrated London news. The style of the watercolour is very like that of W. S. Hatton, who is known to have copied many views from the Illustrated London news, although his or her work was normally signed. Paper watermarked D & C Blauw Other Titles - Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 229 x 381 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Tiffen, Henry Stokes, 1816-1896; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832at/1844-1845/Acc.855

Description: Chart of most of North Island (excluding North of North Island) highlighting detail of Wellington, Wairarapa, Wanganui District, Manukau and the Hauraki Gulf. East Cape and inland East Coast show very little or no detail. Insets of Port Nicholson, Kawhia, Tauranga, Waitemata, Manukau and Whangaroa harbours. Extended Title - Compiled by Tiffen from the Government and New Zealand Company's surveys and reconnaisances, from sketches by Messrs. Symonds, D. Bett, R. Harrison, - Richards, J. Thomas, - Murant, and from Native information, 1844-5. I am Chas. Brees, principal surveyor, New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale 1:800,000, 84 x 64 cm.

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: MapColl-832.47964ac/[ca 1840]/Acc.6012

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Titahi Bay northwards to Pukerua Bay, and the Horokiwi Valley, Wellington. Shows unnumbered subdivisions of land around the Harbour, Jackson's Hotel, Thom's Hotel and whaling station. Shows several Maori pa sites, including Pa Warakoua on the southwest side of the Harbour, an unnamed pa near Titahi Bay, Taupo Pa and surrounding Native gardens, the Native path from Taupo Pa to Pukerua, Wairaka Pa near Gibralter Rock, and a settlement at Pukerua. Map probably drawn in 1844 or 1845, according to Drawing and Prints. Also shows several numbered views that relate to sketches housed in Drawings and Prints. Note on map before copying: Portfolio D, [New Zealand Company], marked & 4 by ? See 'Plan shewing the several points of view of the sketches illustrative of the West Coast' [1844 or 1845], the ink and watercolour original, shelved at B-031-036, held in Drawings and Prints. The original watercolour sketches relating to the map are held in Drawings and Prints, shelved at A145 / 8. Brees was the principal surveyor of the New Zealand Company. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 32.3 x 41.2 cm.

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-126-020/021

Description: Watercolour shows the south Wairarapa coast, possibly near Te Kopi looking west from near Cape Palliser, with dwellings and probably a whaling station (Wades Whaling Station? as mentioned in the Wellington Spectator of 1844) in the centre. Several men stand on the steep hillside at the right. The foreground terrain is covered with low scrub. Pencil sketch is a preliminary sketch for PLate 12 in "Illustrations to adventure in New Zealand" (1845), showing two food drying platforms in the right foreground, the curve of Porirua Harbour, and the entrance to Paremata Harbour in the right distance. Dated from other views of the same area. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 227 x 380 mm, with pencil sketch of same size on verso. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at Gorringes Auction Galleries, Lewes, Sussex 1986 by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm. Brian Goshinski of McArthur's auction, 14. 8. 98). Miss A. Brees, a descendant of S. C. Brees had lived in Sussex

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Fitzgerald, Thomas Henry, 1824-1888; New Zealand Company

Reference: MapColl-832.47gbbd/1844/Acc.15653

Description: Cadastral map showing the boundaries of the Port Nicholson Purchase, or the 'first purchase of the New Zealand Company, as laid down by Mr Thomas Fitzgerald, assistant surveyor attached to the Land Claims Commissioner and by the officers of the New Zealand Company's surveying staff'. Land involved includes over one hundred 100-acre land blocks in the Wellington Region, namely in Upper and Lower Hutt, Lowry Bay, the Miramar Peninsular, coastal land on the eastern coast of the harbour, Orongo rongo, Petone, Pakuratahi, the Wainuiomata Valley, Tawa, and some blocks of land westwards of Tawa, Johnsonville, and Karori. The map names the following districts: Terawhiti, Kinapora, Makara, Kaiwara, Ohiro, Horokiwi Road, Karori, Town, Ohariu, Harbour, Evan's Bay, Lowry Bay, Upper Hutt, Lower Hutt. Valley of Wainuiomata, Pakuratahi, Petone, and each district is divided into numbered blocks. Several sites have Maori or English names. 'Pa Rangi rau' is indicated near Barings Head. Some topographical detail is shown. Miramar is named 'Watt's Peninsular' and includes a large lake called 'Burnham Water'. The map does not include the central business district of Wellington. Before copying, map was signed 'No 12, Case 374, Plan of the Port Nicholson District referred to in my final report [signed] Will[ia]m Spain, Commissioner'. The original map colour coding referred to government, Native (Maori) and public (town) belt reserves, not visible on this black and white copy. See also MapColl-832.47gbbd/1843/Acc.11503-8 which shows the names of purchasers of many of the 100-acre blocks. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, scale indeterminable, 78.8 x 57 cm.

Date: 1844 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Syme, William James, 1909-1989

Reference: A-459-003/008

Description: Views include: 'The Hutt Road taken at the gorge looking toward Wellington'; 'Mr Brees' cottage, Karori Road'; 'Colonel Wakefield's residence Wellington'; 'Petoni [sic] Road, with Wellington in the distance'; 'Church of England, Wellington'; 'Parsonage Wellington'; 'Barrett's Hotel Wellington'; 'View looking down Hawkestone Street Wellington with Mr Brees' cottage'; 'Tinakori Road Wellington'; 'Courts of Justice, Wellington' Other colour copies of these prints held by the Library, including original watercolours of some Quantity: 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s) on 6 pages. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sepiatone, page sizes vary, approximately 185 x 240 mm

Date: 1844 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: B-031-036

Description: Map of Porirua Harbour, Paramata, Plimmerton and Pukerua districts with Mana Island. Location of several pa sites indicated: Wairaka Pa near Pukerua Bay; Taupo Pa (built 1844) at Plimmerton, Warakoua Pa on Porirua Harbour's North shore, and a pa at Titahi Bay. Also shows location of Jackson's Hotel, Thom's hotel and whaling station, Maori gardens beyond Taupo pa and Maori path to Pukerua Bay. Subdivisions of land are indicated around Porirua Harbour. Attributed to Charles Heaphy until 1993, because sketches referred to in title were thought to be Heaphy's. Reattribution to Brees because 1. Brees was Principal surveyor for the N.Z.Company and the map shows land subdivisions. 2. Handwriting very similar to Brees' on MS map held by the Admiralty (photo held by Cartographic Collection (823 at / 1844-5 / acc 855) 3. Indications of points of view of sketches can mostly be linked with known originals by Brees. The following list gives the numbers on this map followed by titles and plate numbers of the matching illustration from Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847). No.21 [i.e. no. 1 or 2?] = Porirua Harbour no. 35, described as looking towards the north from near Jackson's towards Thom's. No.3. Thom's whaling station, Porerua, no.14. No.4. Porerua Harbour no. 29; also Porirua Harbour, ATL's watercolour (B-031-006), looking south towards Thom's and Paramata Pa. No.5. Paramata Pa, Porerua, no.52. No.6 Porerua Bay, no.12. Taken from the native path towards Pukerua, showing the "native potatoe gardens". No.7 Island of Mana. No.8. No parallel image traced. No.9 Pokaroa and the Island of Kapiti, no.37. Inscriptions: Recto - top left - Title. Other place names and geographical features elsewhere. "Portfolio D. Marked &c by Mrs Allom" inscribed above title by the New Zealand Company Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & Watercolour 319 x 409 mm on laid paper, watermarked 1840 Provenance: New Zealand Company; purchased by A.H.Turnbull in 1915.

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-126-025

Description: Shows a sketch of a view looking north-east over the Porirua Harbour from the Whitireia Peninsula shore, towards the entrance to Paremata Harbour. A single-sailed canoe rests in the water at the right. Relates to "Porerua Bay", illustration number 8 (Plate 3) of Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand". Also similar to the watercolour at ATL B-031-028. Other Titles - Porirua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 221 x 348 mm. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at Gorringes Auction Gallery, 1986 by dealer John Barkis (pers. comm., Brian Groshinski of McArthurs' Auction, 14. 8. 98) Miss A. Brees, a descendant of S. C. Brees, had lived in Sussex

Date: 1844

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

Reference: B-031-025

Description: Buildings shown are the whaling station at Te Kopi, Palliser Bay. See similar view, with title, reproduced in McArthur's auction catalogue for sale 4 August 1987, lot 52. Shows a high rock, being climbed by three Pakeha men, on the right, a cluster of several low buildings near the shore and a path through low scrub in the foreground. A Maori woman [?] is walking away from the viewer and further along the path is a European man and another person. Date of 1844 is suggested because Brees' watercolour entitled Cape Palliser is dated 1844, and this view is likely to have been taken on the same exploratory trip. There are faint map outlines in pencil on the verso. Other Titles - Whaling station, Te Kopi, Palliser Bay, 1844? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 223 x 378 mm

Date: 1844

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

Reference: A-179-014

Description: Shows the town of Petre or Wanganui, with its earliest houses, and Christ Church, the first church, at the left. The river lies beyond, with hills in the background. A small group of armed men can be seen in the left foreground. The buildings in the distance across the river appear to comprise Putiki Wharenui Pa, and, to the left, the house of Rev Richard Taylor This is the original watercolour for the handcoloured engraving that appears in Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", Plate 6, no 19. The artist may have added the group of soldiers at a later date. He left New Zealand in 1845, before British troops were present in the lower North Island. There are no soldiers in the engraving derived from this watercolour. The town of Whanganui or Wanganui was originally named Petre by the New Zealand Company. It reverted to its original Maori name in the 1854. Other Titles - Whanganui Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 163 x 226 mm. Provenance: Previously bought on 6 February 1937, by Mr Donald McElwain of London and Wanganui, from Miss Webb (Tunbridge Wells, Kent), the adopted daughter, or companion, of the great-niece of the artist. Note at AT 10/14, 1 May 2003, accompanying painting, states that Miss Webb was also the adopted daughter of Miss Brees.

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-126-019

Description: Shows the curve of Palliser Bay looking towards Cape Palliser, with a Maori pa in the left middle distance. Several canoes are drawn up on the land, standing on supports, and several fences have been erected near a dwelling. A European rowing boat (partially erased) is in the sea at the right. Dated from other views of the same area. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - [Title] Similar to the view at B-031-018. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 225 x 377 mm. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at Gorringes Auction Galleries, Lewes, Sussex, by dealer John Barkis (Pers. comm. from Brian Groshinski of McArthurs, 14. 8. 98). Miss A. Brees, Brees' descendant had lived in Sussex

Date: 1844

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

Reference: B-031-027

Description: A Pakeha male and two Maori walking on a rocky beach with cliffs and low scrub to their right, looking towards Palliser Bay and Wellington in the distance. Both Maori are in cloaks and are carrying taiaha. This work was given the title Turakirae Head by Library staff, possibly in the 1950s, 60s or early 1970s. Close inspection in January 1996 revealed a previously unnoticed title. Cape Palliser is a considerable distance from Turakirae Head, although along the same stretch of coastline. Modern photographs confirm that the site is Cape Palliser, and that the topography as recorded by Brees is accurate. The only modern change is a (probably man-made) pool half-way between the high tide mark and the cliffs. A copy of modern photographs of the same scene is with the watercolour. On verso: section of a manuscript map of Pauatahanui and Porirua Harbour, presumably by Brees. Pauatahanui is called Pawai Tang[inui? - paper trimmed]. Other Titles - Turakirae Head, Palliser Bay coast ca 1843 Inscriptions: Recto - lower centre over a sandy patch between the foreground rock outcrop and the closest Maori and rocks; in brushpoint and very faint and illegible in parts: Cape Palliser towards the Wairarapa. 1844. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 173 x 372 mm

Date: 1842 - 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-126-022

Description: Shows a view of the survey station from across the Manawatu River. The Kari Kari station stands on a bend in the river about eight miles from the coast, and consists of four or five scattered buildings and two tents beside bush, at the water's edge. A flagpole flies a blue flag. There is a canoe drawn up on the bank, and another canoe midriver has been erased. The distance shows low rolling bush-covered hills, and the near bank is covered with bush. Relates to illustration number 32 (Plate 11) of Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand". Dated from date given by McArthur's Auction in 1987. Other Titles - Kari Kari, on the River Manawatu Other Titles - Karikari Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 218 x 323 mm. Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, sold at Gorringes Auction Galleries, Lewes Sussex 1986 to dealer John Barkis (pers. comm. Brian Groshinski of McArthur's auction, 14. 8. 98) Miss A. Brees, a descendant of S. C. Brees, had lived in Sussex.