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Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-057

Description: Central third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows groups of figures on foreshore including man on horseback, man examining ships through spyglass, two small groups of Maori watching, two men smoking long pipes, 14 sailing ships including one rounding Point Halswell, Somes Island with flag flying at its southern end, two Maori craft including one with sails. View extends from Warepori's Village in Pitone at left, to Mount Victoria at right. Features named are: Warepori's village Pitone, Valley of the Hutt, Tararua Mountains, Somes's Island, Pt Halswell (the entrance from the sea), Pt Jerningham, Mr Duppa's house (Oriental Bay), Mount Victoria. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). The copy negatives listed here are also from this book rather than from this copy at B-110-056/058. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - above image - [Title]; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - beneath image - From a sketch taken by Captain Mein Smith R.A. / London, Smith, Elder & Co. Cornhill. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 502 mm.

From: Estate of Mr and Mrs E S Knight :Photographs of Wellington

By: Barker, Frank Giles, 1891-1955; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Smith, Sydney Charles, 1888-1972; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PA1-o-252

Description: Photograph album of views of Wellington, ranging from copies of early paintings from the 1840s, and early photographs up to the 1870s, to a series of postcards from the 1920s. Most of the early images have clear descriptions, giving year made, location, and in some cases further information about buildings that can be seen. For example, one view shows Kebble's house, now the site of the Grand Opera House. Views in the postcards are identified, but no dates are given. Most of the postcard views were taken by Sydney Charles Smith Inscriptions: Album page - `To E.S.K. with all good wishes for the 8th Nov. 1925, from a wellwisher' (illuminated inscription inside front cover) Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Black album, entitled `Photographs'; `E.S.K.' lettered in lower right-hand corner; 26 x 33 cm

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: B-110-056

Description: Left one-third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows houses along foreshore of Lambton Quay and Thorndon. Shows Tinakore [sic] Range, Kai Wara Wara [sic], Nga Hauranga [sic], the Terrace, Willis & Co.'s store, Kumu Toto Point and Pa, Doctor Evan's house, Colonel Wakefield's house, Barrett's hotel, Medical hall, Company's Emigration Barracks, and Government flagstaff. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thorndon Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 457 mm.

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1 Dec 1858-17 Mar 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: MS-Papers-1534

Description: Describes two surveys of the Tauherenikau area, Wairarapa Copied from original in 1897 Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-029

Description: The bridge and fort viewed from the north, a windmill to the right and a bare tree in the foreground. The bridge is the second Hutt bridge, built after the first one was destroyed in the 1848 earthquake. The second bridge was destroyed in the 1855 earthquake. Compare a very similar drawing by G. F. Swainson, Fort Richmond and the second Hutt Bridge. Swainson was almost certainly copying W. M. Smith's drawing. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 mm x 240 mm

Date: 1850 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Norden, Alison, active 1997

Reference: A-035-036

Description: Shows a view, from privately-owned (fenced) land, towards a stretch of water, probably the Ruamahanga River (which bounded Mein Smith's own property slightly further upstream at the entrance of Dry River into the Ruamahanga). At the right in the middle distance, a small figure pulls a canoe up towards a site covered with tall poles with bulbous (carved?) tops, probably a canoe landing reserve, marked with poles to show who is entitled to land there. This site is separated from the fenced land, by a natural boundary in the form of a tributary stream, whose clay banks are visible. On the distant shore of the water at the left, a stand of trees stretches into the background. The foreground is cleared with two flax plants in the left foreground. On the extreme right, a figure walks along a path towards the markers. Tipene Chrisp suggests that the poles are not standard Hauhau poles. ATL holds a watercolour sketch by Charles Decimus Barraud, made from almost the same spot in 1863 (at B-005-009). It appears not to have been done from William Mein Smith's own property which was further upstream. The title "Otaraia" may indicate simply the Otaraia area rather than the pa itself. For a map of the area, showing the location of Mein Smith's pieces of property on the Ruamahanga, see Map Collection 832.45gbbd/1861?/Acc.564 "Plan of the Wairarapa from the sea". Other Titles - [Ruamahanga River, Wairarapa, with canoe landing markers] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 166 x 240 mm. (with one corner missing) Provenance: The gallery was selling on behalf of Ms Alison Norden, the great-great-great-granddaughter of the artist. The work had been handed down through family members. In 1993 the work was on sale at Ferner Gallery Auckland, on behalf of Mrs Alison Norden, and had been restored by the Ferner Gallery.

Date: 1860 - 1870

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-034-009

Description: Shows a group of trees, behind a cleared area with several treee stumps. The artist was farming in the Southern Wairarapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 210 x 157 mm

Date: 1840 - 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-001

Description: Shows dwelling with what appears to be battened-down thatch roofing. There is a stream on the left, and the house stands in a cleared area of bush. The station was established by Clifford and Weld. First sheep station in New Zealand, established in Wairarapa by Mr C Clifford in 1843. Compare an almost identical copy (but on brown paper) in Mein Smith's hand from the collection of William Swainson, located at A-024-019. This copy appears to include a vegetable garden at the front of the house. Other Titles - Wharekaka Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] / W.M.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 115 x 165 mm

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-035-004

Description: A house with outbuildings in the middle distance, hills behind. A path winds around the side of a hill in the right foreground, and several dying trees are in the left foreground Other Titles - Otaraia Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on grey paper, 127 x 190 mm

Date: 1850 - 1865

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: A-035-027

Description: Shows T. P. Russell's farm in the Wairarapa, established 1846-7. The house, surrounded by fencing is in the middle distance, with hills behind. North east Wairarapa, near the Akitio River? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, with some watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.

Date: 1840 - 1860

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Hogg, Neville William (Dr), 1927-2007

Reference: A-263-027

Description: Shows rotting shell of a large tree trunk, with a tree stump to the left and dense bush behind, including a tree-fern. Probably painted on or near the artist's farm at Huangarua, between Greytown and Martinborough in the Wairarapa, although it could also be a Wellington or Hutt Valley scene. The land is flat and there are no identifying hills visible. Attribution based on style. Attributed to W.Mein Smith by previous owners as well. Other Titles - Bush scene Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 298 x 207 mm (sight) Provenance: Purchased by Dr Neville Hogg from McKearney's Auction, Hastings, 16 May 1975, with title 'Bush scene' [information from backing board, now discarded].

Date: 1850 - 1860

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-034-010

Description: A group building a fire in the bush. One member of the group, dressed in European clothing, carries firewood towards the fire. The other two members of the group, dressed in traditional Maori clothing, are next to the fire; one is seated and one is standing with a baby on her back. The bush includes a tree fern and possibly a young beech tree Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 260 x 182 mm

Date: 1845 - 1865

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Waghorn, Florence Mary, 1908-1989

Reference: A-035-029

Description: Shows a Maori pa beside the mouth of the Pahaoa river on the south-east Wairarapa coast, looking inland; palisades and houses are clearly visible. Driftwood is piled up on the beach in the foreground and there are rock formations in the sand on the opposite bank with hills in the background. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.

Date: 1842

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: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1860

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-034-001

Description: A bend of the Ruamahanga River, with bush to the left and a small canoe with three people in it being poled across the river in the middle distance, low hills in the background. The area shown is likely to be on or close to the artist's own farm which was beside the Ruamahanga Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 176 x 249 mm

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-006

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down over Thorndon, showing the Immigration Barracks, the first St Paul's Church and a single house on the shore at Oriental Bay. The view looks across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Evans Bay. There are several dead trees on Thorndon Flat. Point Jerningham is on the left across the water, and there are six ships and several smaller vessels in the harbour. Two flags are flying close to the shore The Hocken Library holds a lithograph (possibly a unique surviving copy) of this view, published by Jones & Bluett, Wellington, 1841. The view is taken at much the same time as Heaphy's 'Thorndon Flat, April 1841' (C-025-010) Features marked along the top, but trimmed, so that they are all incomplete: 'n Houses' is probably Immigration Houses'; 'a Esq.r' is probably Duppa Esquire [house in Oriental Bay]; 'Church' is probably St Paul's Church; 'ia' is the end of Mt Victoria; 'Bay' on the left, is Evans Bay. Dating: the associated lithograph was published in 1843. St Paul's Church, Museum Street, was consecrated in 1844, but possibly completed some time before 1844. Other Titles - Tinakori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 206 x 307 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased 1915, from Francis Edwards. Formerly New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1859

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Shankland, Peter, 1876-1963; Trapp, B (Mrs) active 1920s

Reference: A-034-020

Description: A long single-storied building in a clearing in bush Smith writes in his diary in 1859 about being at Pakuratahi and about Hodder's. The hotel was called the Golden Fleece Hotel. A watercolour or wash drawing copied by the Library, in 1923. The mount bears the handwriting of Johannes Andersen, chief Librarian of the Turnbull from 1919 to 1937. The Library has only a photographic copy. Other Titles - Pakuratahi Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photo print of watercolour 140 x 204 mm

Date: 1860 - 1869

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: A-034-008

Description: Shows a large totara tree standing amongst a stand of bush behind a dilapidated fence. The area in the foreground has been cleared and there is a tree-stump at the left. Pihautea in South Wairarapa was the station of runholder C R Bidwill Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 105 mm

Date: 1851

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tully, Dorothy, 1895-1971

Reference: A-034-028

Description: View looking downstream with partially cleared hills and the river. On the left is a dirt road with a European figure walking along it and other small figures in the distance. On a bank of the river in the background is a Maori figure close to a small canoe. The area shown is the Taita district. Reproduced 1972 as one of the Turnbull Library Prints (see copy at C-028) Other Titles - First Inscriptions: Verso - [title in black ink]; Recto - bottom left - Drawn by Capt. W. M. Smith R. A. 1851 [in red ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 250 mm