Places

Date: 1860 - 1865

From: McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 :Maps from papers

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: MapColl-832.11gbbd/[1860-65]/Acc.1777

Description: Cadastral map of the entrance of Kaipara Harbour, from the Waionui Inlet, Papakanui Spit, South Head down to Mairetahi. Several placenames are given along the eastern coastline, Kawau, Pararaha, Waipiro, Haratai, Te Pua, Waioneke, Onumotu, Taumata, Karukanihui. Four areas are highlighted and their acreage given: Okaka (1851), Whiritoa (1558), Waioneke (5500), and Mairetahi (6300). Both the Okara block and the Whiritoa block have small designated Native reserves, marked 'N.R.' Pencil note at bottom of map 'By Chas Heaphy?' Title drawn on map in pencil and inside square brackets Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, hand coloured, linen backed, 34 x 20 cm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - From McLean, Donald (Sir), 1820-1877 Papers - MS-Papers-0032.

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: 1839

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

Reference: C-025-020

Description: Shows G. F. Russell's house and timber yard at Kohukohu, Hokianga Harbour, with a ship and a barque, the Francis Spaight (nearer vessel) and the Bolina (on the left) loading kauri spars; and a row-boat hauling spars. On the hill behind is dense native forest. For many years, this watercolour was thought to show Horeke with Lieutenant Thomas McDonnell's house. However Maureen Lander's "Turnbull Library Record" article cited below proves that the image is of Kohukohu and of G. F. Russell's house. See Turnbull Library Record vol.22. no.1, May 1989, p.33-40 for an article by Maureen Lander establishing that this view is of Kohukohu and is accurate in its details. The view dates from a trip Heaphy made with other New Zealand Company employees in December 1839, looking for appropriate areas to establish cities. The New Zealand Company's vessel the "Tory", with the artist on board, was in the Hokianga Harbour between 2 and 16 December. See also the article by Brian Byrne in "Turnbull Library record" 1997, pages 73-76, identifying the "Francis Spaight" and the "Bolina", with evidence. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited: Early watercolours of New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, September 1963. Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art, Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February to 22 April 1990; Treasures in Trust, National Library Gallery, 17 August to 2 November 1995 and Auckland City Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Kohukohu, Northland Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 308 x 429 mm (image), 327 x 450 mm (ruled line) on sheet 409 x 516 mm Dimensions: painted surface, surrounded by a single ruled ink line is 308 x 429 mm; outside the painted surface is a space, including the artist's signature lower right, then a double ruled line at 327 x 450 mm; the whole sheet, including the artist's handwritten title below measures 409 x 516 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company papers, London. Item number 16 in the New Zealand Company's list of paintings and drawings received

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: 1852

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: A-145-014

Description: Shows a man in a top hat at the far left, watching a paddle-steamer, the 'Governor Wynyard', as it steams along with several top-hatted men on board discussing the possibilities of finding gold. One man dances on top of the circular paddle-casing warning "Jonathan" to stop the boat. Speech balloons issue from the men's mouths. One of the men is addressed as Sawney (an English nickname for a Scotsman), and he replies in a Scottish accent. In the right foreground a hen and her chickens confront a goose and her goslings. The man in the left foreground says: "Looking for gold "you know"!!! Don't you wish you may get it" The man on the paddle casing says: "Easy Jonathan, stop her" The steamer smokestack says: I guess them Britishers'll find the gold end in smoke Three men in the group on board say: "Weel Sawney, I think there's gold there"; "Th[e]re can be nae doot o't, do ye no see it glittering man"; "I'm no jist sure ye see bu[t] I'll tell ye when I hae got it". The "New Zealander" (Auckland) for 13 March 1852 reports a trip by the members of the Gold Reward Committee in the ship 'Governor Wynyard' to the Hen and Chicken Islands, to follow up reports by a Mr Merrick that he had soil specimens from the islands, containing gold. The 'Governor Wynyard' returned with further specimens, but the "New Zealander" for 17 March 1852 reports that laboratory tests found no trace of gold in these specimens. The Gold Reward Committee was set up by the Auckland Provincial Council in 1852 to find workable gold on the North Island of New Zealand. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Verso - top centre - R L Wynyard / 35 Arthur St. / Ellerslie, S.E. 6. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, 235 x 285 mm. Provenance: From the estate of R L Wynyard of Auckland, descended from Colonel Robert Henry Wynyard.

Date: 1839

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

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1853

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-164-046

Description: Shows a woman with a rifle, aiming at a target to the left of the picture, while two other women stand alongside her on the shore in the centre foreground. There is a rowing boat pulled up on the slope behind them, and a bank with trees in the background. May originally have been part of a larger picture. Title "Shooting party" supplied by International Art Centre auction catalogue March 2001. Backing board housed with the original art work. The title 'Mansion House, Kawau, 1853' appears to have been added in the 20th century. It is written in ball-point pen. Mansion House was not known as such until about 1900 and the property was not purchased by Sir George Grey, its best-known early owner, until 1862. The date 1853 is quite convincing in terms of the dress of the women although the dress styles could also date from 1860 or slightly later. The location may be elsewhere in Auckland. Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - Painting by Major Heaphy, VC; Backing board recto - centre - For Peter, July 1973; Backing board recto - bottom centre - Mansion House Kawau 1853 (in biro) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 67 x 90 mm.

Date: 1852

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wynyard family

Reference: B-182-008

Description: Shows five diggers at work at a clay bank in a forest clearing. One of them is using a "long Tom" gold sluice. In their midst stands a figure in blue, with a long stick; he is either resting or supervising. In the background, a large kauri tree has been felled and is lying on the undergrowth. Beyond it can be seen the roof of a tent. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 224 x 184 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by a descendant of the Wynyard family. Processing information: Deframed by the Library.

Date: 1846

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-048-025

Description: Looking south along the coastline of the West Coast, showing travellers fording the mouth of the Taramakau River, and Mount Cook, its height exaggerated, amongst the Southern Alps By the same hand as A-048-026: [Taupo Lake]. Corresponds closely to the chromolithograph in: Hochstetter, F. von. New Zealand, its physical geography. Stuttgart, 1867, p. 38, entitled: The Southern Alps ... Ch. Heaphy del. A. Meerman sc. The chromolithograph has slightly more details, suggesting that this is a comtemporary careful copy. The Heaphy drawing on which it is based was done in 1846. Other Titles - New Zealand, its physical geography Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, image, 113 x 182 mm

Date: 1863

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-145-004

Description: Shows Royal Navy storming party in earthworks, Rangiriri Pa (Waikato/Tauranga War, 1863-4). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen sketch 228 x 305 mm

Date: 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: MapColl-834.1aj/[1842]/Acc.3046

Description: Hydrographic map of Nelson Haven, for safe passage through Port Nelson harbour. Shows thorough sounding measurements in fathoms with accompanying detailed notes entitled 'Sailing directions for Nelson Haven' alongside map. Shows the boulder bank, mud flats, Arrow Rock, Whitby's Beacon, low and high tide water marks, and the Matai River. Includes 38 lines of notes entitled 'Sailing directions for Nelson Haven', and latitude and longitude details. Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour on paper, linen backed, 54 x 38 cm.

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.

Date: 1846

From: Great Britain. Colonial Office :Maps and plans. Series 1. New Zealand. CO 700/New Zealand

By: National Archives (Great Britain); Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Brunner, Thomas, 1821?-1874

Reference: MapColl-834.1atc/[1846]/Acc.46948-53

Description: Copy of manuscript map showing the first part of Thomas Brunner and Charles Heaphy's trip down the west coast of the South Island. This map shows the section from Farewell Spit to the Mokihinui River. Has some place names and commentary on the rocks and vegetation of the surrounding land. Title taken from the catalogue of the National Archives, United Kingdom Quantity: 1 manuscript map(s) in 6 parts. Physical Description: Photographic print, black and white, 125 x 72 cm.

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.

Date: 1849 - 1860

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Robertson, Amy, active 1915-1922

Reference: C-025-003

Description: Two European men carrying guns and bags, a Maori man with a gun and a backback, and a dog in the foreground, making their way up a path though tree ferns, cabbage trees and ferns. Three Maori are seated on a low hill in the middle ground and there are volcanic cones in the middle ground and background. One of the group is likely to be the artist. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. Heaphy [in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & Chinese white 414 x 540 mm

Date: [circa 1849]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-146-011

Description: Shows a view looking towards open water between a low tongue of land at the left, and the higher landing place at the right, with six boats drawn up by the bank and three others in the water. Above the landing place men work unloading and carrying, and a horse and cart is employed. Behind this are a group of buildings, one with a flag flying from its roof. There is a steamboat in the left distance in open water. Title taken from item. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Shortland landing place from inside the Creek Auckland Museum holds a similar sketch of the same location called "The creek and landing place, Shortland. Looking out towards the Thames Frith". Reference number PD-1952-2-31. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, black and white, 120 x 180 mm Processing information: Location identified 18 April 2023 following information provided by a researcher.

Date: 1868

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: A-147-010

Description: Shows section of perimeter of crater, with detached rock resting on edge at left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title] / see over; Verso - top centre - Note. This crater is on the eastern slope of the larger crater on Hawkins Hill, near the Tamiki at Otahuhu. It has discharged its lava towards the eastward. The [appearance?] of the wall of the crater is that which would result from a basin being for a time filled with melted matter cooling on the top and at the edges and which suddenly found vent. There are other places in the Auckland district where similar appearances exist as at the Lake, North Shore, and the Grotto, Onehunga - both craters. C.H. / 20/1/68 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 250 x 350 mm

Date: 1839 - 1851

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: A-189-023

Description: The Tory in full sail, sailing through Tory Channel, with a Maori canoe with two sails behind it, a smaller canoe with masts in front. Seabirds on rocks in the foreground, a flax bush and manuka on a headland to the right and a rocky island in the middle distance with the hills of Queen Charlotte Sound in the background A copy of Charles Heaphy's ink sketch 'Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1839' in the Fildes Collection, Victoria University of Wellington, measuring 182 x 269 mm (irregular edge 270 mm across the top) Other Titles - Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; also bottom right, C. Heaphy [enclosed in a cartouche] and below that G. F. Swainson March 1851. [i.e. copy of a Heaphy drawing by Swainson] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Crayon and watercolour, 242 x 300 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