Places

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-045

Description: Shows a view of a cave flanked by large rocks, as seen from across a stretch of water. There is a sailboat at the left. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 120 x 175 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-052

Description: A narrow road beneath a rocky cliff, with a single figure walking away towards the gorge of the Hutt River. Tall trees lean over the road from the top of the cliff on the left Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initialled: W.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 130 x 96 mm

Date: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-050

Description: A traveller on a low hill beneath tall trees, with a cabbage tree to the right. He is overlooking a bush-clad valley and hills Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 112 x 165 mm

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: 1854

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-021

Description: Two wooden dwellings, side by side, the nearer with a slab chimney. A man is seated on the ground outside, reading, watched by two seated Maori from a distance. "Willie" is William John Swainson, the son of the artist On verso of A-188-021/001: [Tree fern], by Edith Stanway (Swainson) Halcombe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Willies Cottage Upper Hutt; Dated: "Nov. 1854" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 100 x 165 mm

Date: 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-030

Description: Shows curve of road from point on west of Wellington Harbour, close to Petone and looking towards it and the Hutt Valley. One standing and two seated Maori figures are on the track by the harbour. Two shags are on a rock in the water. Other Titles - Entrance to the Hutt Valley, Tararua Mountain Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - `W. Swainson' and dated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 110 x 172 mm

Date: 1857

By: Beetham, Lucelle Frances, 1842-1910; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-033

Description: The family home with three gables and a lean-to, an attic storey in the gables on either side of the front door. Tall chimneys at both ends of the house, and an established garden, with a circular bed in front of the house. Bush is shown behind. The house was in Lower Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initialled L F S Lucelle Frances Swainson (1842-1910) was the daughter of noted botanist William Swainson (1824-1887). Fern Grove was the second house built in Lower Hutt by the Swainson family. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1848

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-187-055

Description: A small bark hut with thatched roof close to the coast, atop a low cliff, with scrub and trees. Maybe associated with either the resident Ngati Toa or the earling whaling communities established on Kapiti during the late 1830s and 1840s. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 11 x 15.5 mm

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Marshall, Mary Frederica, 1826-1854; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-026

Description: A small wooden cottage with chimney at one end, three windows, a thatched roof, standing on its own in a bush clearing in Hutt Forest Known as Hope Cottage originally; when Hawkeshead was built this became the kitchen. Information from Mr Geoffrey Swainson. The kitchen was destroyed by fire 1848. Signed: M.S. See also drawing of same subject by William Swainson, A-187-047. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 125 x 220 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Halcombe, Edith Stanway, 1844-1903; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-022

Description: Two small cottages with thatched roofs and single windows visible, the one on the right with a lean-to. A path leads down from the left-hand cottage and a woman and small child are in the foreground. Steep bush-clad hills rise behind the huts. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - E S S; Verso - (in artist's hand) A little sketch of mine Edith; Verso - (in another hand) Halcombe, Urinui, New Plymouth Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 59 x 99 mm