Places

Date: 1844

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-014

Description: View across a clearing in Hutt Forest, with the Hutt Road crossing the scene, a larger house, Hawkshead belonging to the Swainson family, and a smaller cottage in the right middle distance. Two cows graze in the foreground Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Title and date, faint pencil inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 228 x 275 mm

Date: 1859

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-012

Description: Grafton Road with houses in bush in the foreground, curving down towards further houses, Parnell, and Waitemata Harbour. Ships on the harbour. North Head, Mount Victoria, Rangitoto and other islands of the Gulf in the background Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & date with the words 'is this' crossed out. Martha King was an early Wanganui settler. See Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, 1990, Vol I for biographical details. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 235 x 293 mm

Date: 1841

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-002

Description: Shows John Nixon's first cottage in Wanganui, built 1840. The house is shown at the foot of a low hill in the middle distance. Also shows a young man seated in the foreground, probably John Nixon. There are clothes drying on a line on the right. A toetoe bush is in the left foreground Nixon later built and moved to a larger property, upriver, called Sedgebrook For further information on John Nixon, see TL3/1/1 21/9/1983 Other Titles - Nixon 1841 Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 225 x 293 mm

Date: 1847

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-100-015

Description: Shows Seaview Farm, Belmont, home of John Stratford & his wife Anne (nee Harnett) Possibly copied from a drawing by William Swainson, or by his daughter Mary, later Marshall, Martha King's friend Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil; also on verso After Swainsons Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 235 x 292 mm

Date: 1850

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-008

Description: A view of rolling hills with, from left, the artist's house (with verandah and high hipped thatched roof), the school room, 'my room' (the artist's small work hut), a shed, the site of the later house and the house of 'old George'. Other houses can be seen in the distance Title from verso Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 234 x 293 mm

Date: 1846

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-013

Description: Looking towards two low hills, with fencing around the hilltop site of Rutland Stockade (started late December 1846, completed 1847) on the right. There is a substantial thatched dwelling and outbuildings in the centre middle distance, identified as the King family home, and a smaller cottage in the right foreground, described as 'Stent's house afterwards Capt. Taylor's'; a 'Mauri [sic, i.e. Maori] house', a low thatched whare, in the centre foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 233 x 293 mm

Date: 1852

By: King, Martha, 1803?-1897

Reference: A-100-010

Description: Looking down onto the roof of the King homestead in New Plymouth, with rolling hills, cleared land and fences, part of a ploughed field in the foreground and a patch of bush with tree ferns and the flagstaff in the background, beyond other houses. Behind the King house, is a small shed marked as 'my little room' and a larger cottage marked as 'school room'. Other Titles - Mr S. P. King and Miss King. New Plymouth with old flagstaff in background. Inscriptions: Verso - Inscribed in ink: 1852 Mrs S P King and Miss King New Plymouth with old flagstaff in background Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 237 x 294 mm