Places

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-343-003

Description: A Maori family, in traditional Maori clothing, reclining at the top of a cliff in the foreground, with an extensive view beyond of Palliser Bay, the sandbank formed at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River and Okorewa Pa, also at the mouth of the river on the flat land below. The Library holds the original watercolour on which this engraving is based at B-031-019, with the same title Other Titles - sandbar Extended Title - From S C Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, J Williams, 1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 76 x 130 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-15-1

Description: A Maori family, in traditional Maori clothing, reclining at the top of a cliff in the foreground, with an extensive view beyond of Palliser Bay, the sandbank formed at the mouth of the Ruamahanga River and Okorewa Pa, also at the mouth of the river on the flat land below. Other Titles - sandbar The Library holds the original watercolour on which this engraving is based at B-031-019, with the same title Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 76 x 130 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-07-3

Description: Shows bushclearing along the path which became the Hutt Road. One man chops at a tree trunk with an axe, while two Maori stand in the path. The tranquil water of Wellington Harbour surrounded by bush-covered hills, show in the distance. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 191 x 160 mm, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-008

Description: Shows lake in distance; party hunting wild pig in foreground with dogs, worrying the pig. The party includes a Maori man dressed in traditional costume. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 4, No 10, text p. 9. Brees stresses the value of the flat land in this area, its quality for farming and the building of part of a road across the Rimutaka Range. Brees spent some time in the Wairarapa surveying until the New Zealand Company suspended its operations in 1844, so the engraving is presumably based on a drawing completed between 1842 (Brees' year of arrival in New Zealand) and 1844. Extended Title - From: Brees, S.C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 4, no 10. Also from: Brees' Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 90 x 188 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-05-1

Description: Part of a pa seen from Plimmerton with Porirua Harbour in the background. A European man with swag, walking stick and dog is walking towards the palisaded pataka and potato garden on the headland in front of him. Taupo Pa (Plimmerton) is on the left. The accompanying text mentions that the view is taken from the native path passing from Porirua to Pukerua Bay, that the foreground structure is around a native potato garden and that the bay to the left 'is called Taupo and is the spot where Rangihaeata intrenched himself after the Wairau Massacre' Other Titles - Porirua Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand coloured 85 x 145 mm

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-343-005

Description: Shows a group of Maori launching or beaching two canoes in the Paremata inlet. The palisades of the pa are seen to the left, with more beached canoes, and a row of wooden poles stretching into the water in the middle distance. ATL holds the book in which this print was published at Art Rm: f 919.31 BRE. Print trimmed close to the top of the image Other Titles - Paremata Pa, Porirua Extended Title - From S C Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, J Williams, 1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 79 x 139 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-343-007

Description: Shows lake in distance; party hunting wild pig in foreground with dogs, worrying the pig. The party includes a Maori man dressed in traditional costume. In: Brees S C Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 4, No 10, text p. 9. Brees stresses the value of the flat land in this area, its quality for farming and the building of part of a road across the Rimutaka Range. Brees spent some time in the Wairarapa surveying until the New Zealand Company suspended its operations in 1844, so the engraving is presumably based on a drawing completed between 1842 (Brees' year of arrival in New Zealand) and 1844. Extended Title - From: Brees, S.C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) Plate 4, no 10. Also from: Brees' Guide and description of the panorama of New Zealand (London, 1849) Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 90 x 188 mm