Places

Date: 1841 - 1842

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

Reference: C-026-001-b

Description: View from the corner of Willis Street and Lambton Quay looking along the length of Lambton Quay. Library holds 8 copies of this print in various states, C-026-001-a to h. See also key to this view at C-026-001 State: 1st plate, 1st issue. Hand-coloured Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, two-tone, hand-coloured, 366 x 524 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: 1841 - 1890

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872

Reference: C-026-002-g

Description: View of Te Aro, Wellington, from Clay Point, 1841 Printed by C Hullmandel. 2nd plate, forged issue, ca 1890. No publisher, Black and white. Probably issued for New Zealand's 50th anniversary of settlement from the original lithographic plates. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, b&w, 370 x 540 mm

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

Date: 1842 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Beauchamp family

Reference: C-029-006-b

Description: An aerial view of the harbour and site of the town of Wellington from south of Wellington Heads, looking down onto Miramar Peninsula in the left centre foreground with Burnham Lake, the site of Wellington City to the left, Pencarrow Head at right foreground, the Hutt Valley in the middle distance to the right. Includes map below image Second edition Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 360 x 697 mm. Provenance: Tinakori Gallery purchased lithograph from descendants of Katherine Mansfield's sister (possibly Vera McIntosh Bell) and brother-in-law, who were the previous (original?) owners.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: PUBL-0009

Description: Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington. Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone. View from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Other Titles - Petone Another loose copy (black and white) at C-029-009. Original pen drawing at A-146-001. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) in book.. Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 242 x 405 mm, on sheet 370 x 540 mm.

Date: 1844

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-263-007

Description: Shows front of Molesworth residence, with flower garden. To the right is a cucumber frame. The house (known as Newry) is shown with tree-trunks supporting the verandah. There is another building on the left, beyond a fence. The view is framed in the foreground with supplejack hanging from tall trees, and a tree stump in the centre Has been attributed to Charles Heaphy (and is included as an illustration in A. Murray-Oliver's 'A folio of watercolours by Charles Heaphy' (Avon Fine Prints, 1981). However the work bears all the hallmarks of the style of William Mein Smith Other Titles - The Molesworth homestead Hutt Valley ca 1843 [former title] Inscriptions: Verso - F. A. Molesworth Newry Port Nicholson N. Z. 1844 Sept. Mary Lady Molesworth 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 240 x 341 mm

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-263-006

Description: Shows the Molesworth residence, a prefabricated house with rustic verandah posts made from forked tree trunks. The house is close to cleared bush and wheat is growing around it, with a haystack to the right. Title from inscription on verso of frame (now discarded, but see negative 69988 1/2); also inscribed: "Lady Molesworth 1843" Earlier staff of the Library attributed this work and its pendant (A-263-007. F. A. Molesworth, Newry ...) to Charles Heaphy. Reattributed to Smith in 1980. This view is from the side and back; the other view from the front. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 262 x 345 mm Transfers: To Cartographic Collection - manuscript map removed from verso. Ref. no. 832.47a/[1844]/Acc.37198. Shows Wellington Harbour..

Date: 1840

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

Reference: A-146-001

Description: A hill with fern and low scrub in the foreground, with a view across the bush-covered Hutt Valley and Petone to the Wainuiomata Hills, with the Harbour, Somes Island and four immigrant ships, the harbour entrance and Miramar Peninsula. There are houses built by the first European settlers on the beach, possibly along with the buildings of Petone Pa, although the latter are indistinguishable from the settlers' houses. The Pa may be hidden from sight by a low rise to the right. Original drawing for a lithograph in E. J . Wakefield's "Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand" (London, 1845) Plate 3, with title "Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840". The lithograph includes in its foreground a Maori woman gathering crops or food and three pigs. The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title, signature, and "Portfolio D" [the latter inscribed by staff of the New Zealand Company in London.; Recto - top centre - No. 55. New Zealand Company Mar 23 1842 [the latter a stamp indicating the date the drawing was received by the New Zealand Company in London]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen drawing 233 x 369 mm Provenance: Drawn for the New Zealand Company and sent to London. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull with other New Zealand Company material in 1915.

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879

Reference: C-029-009-a

Description: Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone, and the first four ships to bring settlers to Wellington, anchored between Somes Island and Petone Beach. A view from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is at A-146-001 The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840 Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - Published in 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerningham Wakefield (London, 1845) Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Presented to the Hutt Mechanics' Institute, with E. Jerningham Wakefield's best wishes for the success of the Institution [on separate card, in E J Wakefield's hand, in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 240 x 405 mm on sheet 355 x 510 mm Provenance: Originally a donation from E J Wakefield to Hutt Mechanics Institute, a predecessor to Lower Hutt Public Library