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Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, includi...
Date: 1841
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company
Reference: C-025-015
Description: View from the first ridge above the beach showing a prefabricated barracks to the left and the tents erected to house the first settlers to Nelson, a well, a flag, and several carts. The view looks from the land towards the Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island, and the Arrow or Fifeshire rock across Tasman Bay to the distant snow-capped Moutere Hills and Tasman Range. The first three immigrant ships, The Will Watch, the Whitby and the Arrow are shown in the harbour with flags flying. There are clumps of trees at the water's edge, but the land is otherwise grassed or with flax and bracken. Original watercolour for the related lithograph "View of Nelson Haven in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand, including a part of the site of the Town of Nelson" published in 1842. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Exhibited: Treasures in Trust. Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 1997, Robert McDougall Art Gallery Christchurch, 1997, Southland Museum and Art Gallery, 1997, total exposure 27 weeks. Inscriptions: Recto - Signature and title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 386 x 492 mm on sheet 465 x 587 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other material from the disbanded New Zealand Company in 1915 in London.
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :The head of Tasman's Gulf; from the sea. no. 3 [1841]
Date: 1841 - 1842
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881
Reference: B-043-012
Description: Shows one of the ships of the New Zealand Company's preliminary expedition (Tory or Cuba), a rowboat (or canoe) with two lateen sails in the right foreground, and a Maori canoe in the right middle distance. Shows coastline, partly wooded in background, with the Arthur Range to the right. The view is of the Waimea Plains and Moutere area. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 35 [then: New Zealand Company stamp 1842].; Recto - bottom left - Portfolio D. / No. 3; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 260 x 484 on sheet 333 x 495 mm Provenance: Bought by Alexander Turnbull.
Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :Kaiteriteri Harbour from the entrance. Tasman's Gulf. No. 3 ...
Date: 1841 - 1842
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
Reference: B-043-011
Description: Shows a Maori canoe with European sails in the foreground near two bush-topped rocks. In the middle distance on shore, is a large tent, the camp of Arthur Wakefield's preliminary expedition's shore-party, with the brig "Arrow" at anchor to the right. The snow-capped Arthur Range is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - No. 3 / Portfolio D; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Date-stamped: 23.3.1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company Collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.