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Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; New Zealand Company; Great Britain. Admiralty; Brown, (Mr), active 1841

Reference: MapColl-834.1atc/1841/Acc.1373

Description: Topographic map of Motueka River, from its mouth at Tasman Bay, and showing the intended site of Nelson, inland from Kaiteriteri Harbour, as explored by Brown and Heaphy for the New Zealand Company. Shows area explored by Mr F G Moore, valley of the Rewai-eka, topographical features with comments, areas of timber and fern, and pa sites near the mouth of the Motueka River. Text on map is very hard to decipher. The number 2 is written on the map. Other Titles - Plan of the course of an expedition up the valley of the Motueka River, Tasman's Gulf. Written on map: Portfolio D, New Zealand, 15. Signed by Charles Heaphy Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Inscriptions: bottom right - Signed by Charles Heaphy; top left - Stamped New Zealand Company, Mar 29, 1842 Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, scale indeterminable, 38.6 x 28.2 cm

Date: 1841 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: D-016-012

Description: Shows site of present Motueka and Lower Moutere townships. At left men drive cattle on horseback. In centre foreground, cattle stand on a small rise with a tree fern, a cabbage tree, and flax. In the middle distance are the mouths of the Motueka river, at left, and the Moutere river at right. In the right distance are D'Urville Island, Stephen's Island, French Pass, and Croisilles Harbour, and in the left distance are Astrolabe Road, and Adele Island. Engraver said to be Thomas Allom. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Astrolabe Road Adele Island Stephen's Island D'Urville's Island French Pass Croisilles Harbour; Recto - beneath image - Driving Cattle with the Stock-Whip Mouth of MOTUEKA River TI or Cabbage Tree Tree-Fern Mouth of MOUTERE River; Recto - bottom centre - THE LEVEL COUNTRY AT THE SOUTH END, LOOKING NORTH OF BLIND BAY / Drawn by Chas. Heaphy Esqr. / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill; Recto - bottom right - DAY & HAGHE LITHRS to THE QUEEN Heaphy's original ink drawing for this view 'View in the Nelson district, 1841' (C-025-004). The original drawing lacks the cows and the men chasing cattle and has a much more dominant group of three tree ferns and a cabbage tree than the lithograph. E.J. Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand" containing coloured lithograph of this scene as Plate VIII. at f919.31 WAK. Heaphy visited the Nelson area in 1841, and settled in the Motueka area in 1842. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 2-part panorama, each section with image 241 x 442 mm, on sheet stuck to board 363 x 992 mm.

Date: 1841 - 1845

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Day & Haghe (Firm); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: PUBL-0011-07

Description: Shows site of present Motueka and Lower Moutere townships. At left men drive cattle on horseback. In centre foreground, cattle stand on a small rise with a tree fern, a cabbage tree, and flax. In the middle distance are the mouths of the Motueka river, at left, and the Moutere river at right. In the right distance are D'Urville Island, Stephen's Island, French Pass, and Croisilles Harbour, and in the left distance are Astrolabe Road, and Adele Island. Engraver said to be Thomas Allom. Heaphy visited the Nelson area in 1841, and settled in the Motueka area in 1842. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - Astrolabe Road Adele Island Stephen's Island D'Urville's Island French Pass Croisilles Harbour; Recto - beneath image - Driving Cattle with the Stock-Whip Mouth of MOTUEKA River TI or Cabbage Tree Tree-Fern Mouth of MOUTERE River; Recto - bottom centre - THE LEVEL COUNTRY AT THE SOUTH END, LOOKING NORTH OF BLIND BAY / Drawn by Chas. Heaphy Esqr. / London Smith Elder & Co. Cornhill; Recto - bottom right - DAY & HAGHE LITHRS to THE QUEEN ATL has Heaphy's original ink drawing for this scene 'View in the Nelson district, 1841' (C-025-004). It lacks the cows and the men droving cattle and has a much more dominant group of three tree ferns and a cabbage tree. ATL has E.J. Wakefield's "Adventure in New Zealand" containing coloured lithograph of this scene as Plate VIII. at f919.31 WAK. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 2-part panorama, each section with image 241 x 442 mm, on sheet stuck to board 363 x 992 mm.

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-005

Description: Shows a plain, either in the Waimea area, or more probably in the Motueka Valley, with the Motueka River passing through it. There are felled trees in the foreground, and a Maori food storage storage platform with two levels and curved rat-barriers on its legs. It holds flax kits of food. Mount Arthur (the distinctive conical shape in the centre) and the Tasman Mountains are in the background. Probably drawn in November 1841 Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title. Also signature Chas Heaphy, bottom right; Recto - bottom left - No. 6; Recto - above image - New Zealand Company stamp, partly trimmed, bearing date March 1842 (the date of receipt in London) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 343 x 496 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-004

Description: Shows view from high vantage point, looking over flat plain towards present-day Motueka, and out to Tasman Bay. Kaiteriteri is on the left, and D'Urville Island in the right distance with French Pass visible as a gap between the island and the mainland. New Zealand Company drawing no. 70. This is the original drawing for the lithograph 'The level country at the south end looking north of Blind Bay' published in E. J. Wakefield's 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' in 1845. The lithographer has added cows to the foreground and changed the predominant tree ferns and cabbage tree seen in this view. Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: 23 Mar 1842; Recto - No. 70 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed) Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.