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[Heaphy, Charles], 1820-1881 :View of Port Wellington, New Zealand. [London, 1843]
Date: 1841 - 1843
From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: E-106-f-047-3
Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Key to the View of the Town of Wellington. [1841. Drawn by C...
Date: 1841 - 1842
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; C Hullmandel (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company
Reference: C-026-001
Description: Outline key to Heaphy's "Part of Lambton Harbour, in Port Nicholson, New Zealand ... April 1841" published in London in 1842 as a lithograph based on Heaphy's watercolour "Thorndon Flat and part of the City of Wellington". Names features, buildings and their owners, and ships, including 1. Messrs Willis's Storehouses. 2. Messrs Wade's Storehouses. 3. Losack's Store. 4. Durie & Co's Store. 5. Mr Grace's Academy. 6. Messrs Waters & Smith's Stores. 7. Allen's Store. 8. Taine's Store. 9. Residence of Captain Cole. 10. Residence of L. Nattrass Esquire. 11. Residence of Dr Johnstone. 12. Messrs Cook's Storehouse. 13. Residence of Col. Wakefield. 14. Residence of Dr Evans. 15. Residence of Mr StHill Esquire J. P. 16. Residence of R. Stokes Esquire. 17. Temporary Exchange and Library. 18. Barrett's Hotel. 19. Houses belonging to F. A. Molesworth Esquire. 20. Residence of Dr Fitzgerald. 21. Hornbrooke's Store. 22. Messrs Hay & McHattie's Storehouses. 23. Residence of Dr Dorset. 24. Company's Immigration Depot. 25. Court House. 26. Residence of Michael Murphy Esquire. 27. Residence of Michael Harrison Esquire. 28. Jail. 29. Residence of Captain Chaffers. 30 Riddiford & Co's Storehouses. 31. Residence of K. D. Harrison Esquire. 32. Path to Ohario. 33. Southern Road to the Porirua Valley. 34. Belsize Point. 35. Schooner "Jane". 36. Schooner "Elizabeth". 37. Cutter "Harriet". 38. Brig "Patriot". 39. N. Z. Co's Barque "Cuba". 40. Ship "London". 41. American Brig "Emigrant". 42. Chilean Ship "Morley". 43. Chilian Brig "Heron". 44. N. Z. Co's Barque "Brougham". 45. Schooner "Kate". 46. Ship "Martha Ridgway". 47. Kumo Toto Point. 48. Town Acre no. 512. xxx Native Potatoe Plantations. Ellis' Early prints of New Zealand. no. 286 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 369 x 551 mm
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand, looki...
Date: 1841
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: C-025-009
Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings