Places

Date: 1863 - 1867

By: Handcock, William, active 1860s-1870s; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-109-012

Description: Birds-eye view looking down onto the city and harbour, showing houses, businesses, wharves, shipping, gardens, etc Wood engraving done on seven blocks. The gaps between the blocks disfigure the image Inscriptions: "T M Hocken" signed at bottom Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving 218 x 370 mm Provenance: Possibly a gift from Dr Hocken to Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1849

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-013-002

Description: View looking down into Commercial Bay, with Shortland Street leading up the hill to St Paul's on the skyline (along the ridge now featuring Albert Park and the University). The Britomart Barracks is on the headland left of centre and Wood's Hotel is to the right along the skyline from St Paul's. Outlines of houses and commercial buildings shown clearly. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title , date, signature; Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 25 1850. No. 343 inscribed to right of stamp. Ink identification of features along the top = left to right: the old barracks, ... Church of England, Shortland Street, Woods New Hotel, There is a related watercolour in the Hocken Library 'Auckland, 1849' (acc 12,881) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touch of wash 181 x 535 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards & Co, as part of the New Zealand Company Collection, London, 1915.

Date: 1849

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-004

Description: Identifies "Royal Hotel, Church, Mr Valpy's residence, Rest. [i. e. Resident New Zealand Company] Agent's Office, Store, Mr Brown's House, The Manse, Mr Chapman's house, Captn Cargill's house" Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - New Zealand Company stamp date "June 26 '49"; Verso - In pencil: "299" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white 239 x 450 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1848

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-001

Description: Shows "Wickliffe Wharf, Residence of Mr Cuttan, The Manse, Back of Captn Cargill's residence, Mr Jeffrey's tent, Resident Agent's Office, Residence of Mr Kettle, Principal surveyor's office, Commercial Inn, Tent, Emigrant's House, Street Lane, Mr Anderson's stores, Emigrant's house Inscriptions: top left - New Zealand Company stamp date "21 Dec 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "no. 283" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white image 211 x 580 mm on sheet 267 x 637 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material

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: 1875 - 1885

By: Tronson, Fairlie Harold active 1883; Bock & Elliot (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-051-016

Description: View possibly from upper Dixon Street or McDonald Crescent, looking across Te Aro and up Willis Street towards Mount Victoria. St Peter's Church dominates the centre of the view and the Gasworks can be seen immediately to the left of the steeple of the church. Marjoribanks Street shows up clearly rising up Mount Victoria, and Oriental Bay, the entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are also clearly visible. Bush in the foreground, shops along Willis Street and several houses. In the right foreground is a large house with two steep gables, and a tree-filled garden, including two young Norfolk Pines. Note to A.H. Turnbull on corner. Other: The two-storied house in the right foreground may still be in existence in 2014, down a path leading from the lower end of The Terrace (formerly Woolcombe Street) Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Two-tone lithograph 265 x325 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1842

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

Reference: G-653

Description: Shows Thorndon and Te Aro, stores, houses, hotels, wharves, flagstaff, the Exchange, customhouse office, post office, man on horseback, settlers, Maoris, and ships in the harbour Original of: Day & Haghe. The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington. Published in Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845. Plate 4. For identification of buildings, refer to text of this publication. Smith was a New Zealand Company employee at the time of painting this oil and it was probably painted for the Company or as a promotion for colonisation of Wellington. Dimensions including frame: 460 x 1195 mm. Earlier frame, replaced in 1986 and again in 1990 included rounded upper inner corners. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 320 x 1060 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1859 - 1867

By: Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: E-151-q

Description: Panorama in four sections, looking north-west towards Otago Harbour, showing houses, businesses, churches, port activities, etc Same view published as a wood engraving in Illustrated London news, 1867, p. 332 & 333, based on a photograph by Melhuish. This watercolour is likely to be a copy of the wood engraving. The wood engraving includes the names of the Criterion Hotel, the Theatre Royal and the Octagon Family Hotel on the appropriate buildings. A copy of the Illustrated London news wood engraving is held at B-070-022 A very similar version of this watercolour in the collection of Te Papa has some buildings named, including the Criterion Hotel, to the right of the road of the left, and the Theatre Royal, further to the right Folded in four and bound into book form. The binding dates to Alexander Turnbull's acquisition of the watercolour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 1080 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from an English dealer, Albert Berthel of Richmond, 1914