Places

Date: 1845 - 1855

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

Reference: A-035-031

Description: Shows Tauanui River district, Wairarapa, an extensive landscape with cliffs and hills in the background, the river in the foreground and the palisades of a pa in the middle distance The name Pirikawiti is not in current use; however Tawanui refers to the Tauanui River, Wairarapa, close to where the artist lived Other Titles - Tauanui, South Wairarapa Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 260 mm Provenance: Previously in the collection of Russell Mein Smith, Wairarapa.

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: 1848 - 1850

By: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889

Reference: B-089-001

Description: Shows a Maori man and woman at the far left, standing outside a whare with carved tekoteko figure. Behind the whare is a palisade and to the far right a waka is being launched into the sea. This work has also been know as 'Meeting house and stockade' A third foreground figure has been pencilled in beside the couple at the left, but has not been completed. This painting was used as the basis for 'Stranger's house (Houraki Pah)', Plate 5 in R A Oliver's 'A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand' (London, Dickinson Bros, 1852) Title from letter of authentication on backing board (accompanies painting in same folder). See also B-189-013 by R A Oliver ('Ihawera'), possibly showing the same woman dressed in striped shirt, knotted scarf and red blanket Other Titles - Meeting house and stockade Other Titles - Stranger's house (Houraki Pah) Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Title] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 272 x 370 mm (sight) Provenance: Previously owned by the artist's descendent Mrs Madeleine McClintock and sold to Brian Groshinski. Sold at McArthur's auction to Goodman Fielder in 1984. Passed in at Webb's auction, March 1995, lot 114.

Date: 1852

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Ralph, Thomas Shearman (Dr), 1813-1891; Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: E-455-f-030-1

Description: Shows a view of Wellington Harbour with sailing ships in port, as seen from the east side of the harbour, looking towards Lambton Quay. Clay Point is marked with a cross. Beneath the work, there is a key, listing lettered features: 'P. Te Aro Pah; 1.Thormium [phormium] tenax vulgarly called flax; W. Wellington Terrace; N. Noah's Ark or Plimmer's Wharf; T. K. Tinakori Road and on to Karori; B. Town Belt; L. English Church, C. Catholic Chapel; a. Baron Alzdorf's new hotel; g. Government House; W. Wades Town [Wadestown]; T. F. Thorndon Flat; p. Pipitea Point & native pah, H. Commencement of Hutt Road. H. Mr Hart's offices (on sail of vessel); X. Clay Point Inscriptions: Mount recto - beneath image - Lambton Quay - Wellington N.Z. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 193 x 293 mm.

Date: 1855 - 1856

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-009

Description: Rolling scrub-covered hills, with Mount Taranaki in the background and the palisades of a pa on a rise to the right in the middle distance Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 180 x 255 mm

Date: 1849 - 1852 - 1851

From: Oliver, Richard Aldworth, 1811-1889: A series of lithographic drawings from sketches in New Zealand

Reference: PUBL-0032-5

Description: Shows a Maori whare with porch and doorway, and a carved figure at the front end of the ridgepole. A man and woman in the left foreground, and three others figures stand or sit at the front of the whare. At the extreme right, two figures take a canoe to the water's edge. Another whare with a thatched roof appears in the bushes near the water. All figures are dressed in a mixture of traditional and European clothing, some in cloaks, some in blankets over shirts or dresses. Other Titles - Hauraki Pa There is also a two-tone lithograph of this image at C-054-008. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: 1 hand-coloured lithograph, 270 x 396 mm

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Chapman, Frederick Revans (Sir), 1849-1936

Reference: C-007-007

Description: The preliminary watercolour for Barraud's more finished version ("Wellington from Brooklyn" C-007-011) showing Te Aro flat with Waitangi Creek meandering through it on the right, a low hill in the foreground (the lower slopes between Mount Cook and Brooklyn) with Te Aro Pa visible on the shore to the right and houses, businesses and churches, more densely settled closer to Clay Point, the cliff face by the sea on the left, with Plimmer's Ark visible at its foot at the water's edge. The larger building near the waterfront may be the Maori Chapel. The road passing diagonally across Te Aro flat slightly right of centre is most likely to be Cuba Street. Thorndon is visible in the distance on the left. The large church on the left is St Peter's in Willis Street. Reproduced in Louis E. Ward's 'Early Wellington' (Wellington, 1928), opp. p. 302 ('in the possession of Sir F. R. Chapman'), labelled 'Te Aro 1850' (it is actually dated 1852), with the caption 'From Mount Cook. St Peter's Church, Boulcott St, and Clay Point are on the left of the Maori Chapel, Te Aro Pa, Swamp and Waitangi Creek are to the right' Other Titles - Wellington from Mount Cook Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & pencil on grey paper, 355 x 601 mm Provenance: Formerly the property of Sir Frederick Revans Chapman.

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848; Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863

Reference: A-048-046

Description: View looking down onto Lake Rotorua, with Mokoia in the distance. The Ohinemutu peninsula is on the right with steam rising from amongst the Maori whare. In the foreground is a whare on the left, a palisade and several Maori figures. Probably copied from a drawing by John Johnson or a copy of that drawing by Cuthbert Clarke. See Cuthbert Clarke;s 'Ohinemotu. From an outline by Dr Johnson [1849]' a conte drawing in the British Library (Add. MS 19954, folio 29, no. 31) of which the Turnbull holds a photograph. The same image was reproduced as a wood engraving in Sir George Grey's 'Polynesian Mythology' (London, 1855). Title from inscription Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 175 x 252 mm Transfers: For attribution and provenance see A-048-027..

Date: 1850

By: Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987

Reference: A-269-011

Description: Shows a tent and shelter with camp fire on the nearer (south) side of the river. On the far side are two Maori whare and two food storage platforms. A range of foothills of the Southern Alps, including Mount Grey, is in the distance. In the centre foreground by the tent, are a European man, woman and child, probably the Godley family. Two further people are by the campfire and tent on the right. There are flax bushes and scrub on the south side of the river, and a cabbage tree on the north side Compare a very similar view in Canterbury Museum titled by Weld 'Camp, banks of Courtenay (Waimakariri) Canterbury Plains, Dec 5th, 1850'. The Canterbury Museum view contains more people and a clearer view of the shelter and camp fire on the right. On Dec 5th 1850, Weld camped on the south bank of the Waimakariri with John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley and their three-year old son Arthur Godley, as well as Charles Torlesse, Charles Hunter Brown, E J Wakefield and a surveyor, Mr Boys. Charlotte Godley wrote to her mother about the camp 'The little tent, just big enough for a bed for us three ... The flax bushes and grass grew all about, higher than our tent ... As it got dark, a party of natives, who had been assembling at some huts just across the river, came over in a canoe to pay us a visit ... Next morning we were up early, and ... had to cross the river in a canoe, the horses having to be swum over' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand. Christchurch, 1951, pp 143-144). The man seated in the tent is likely to be John Robert Godley, while Charlotte Godley will be the woman holding the hand of their small son Arthur by the river. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 170 x 245 mm Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.

Date: 1852

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry 1802-1864 :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / R.H.W. - 1852.

Reference: A-081-027

Description: A group of single-storey buildings surrounded by a fence on a raised area of land at the edge of Pauatahanui Inlet, with a single small building in front at the water's edge. Hills in the distance and the estuary to the right Probably shows Te Rangihaeata's pa Matai Taua, on the rise now occupied by St Alban's church, Pauatahanui. The pa, built in the mid-1840s was not used defensively. Rangihaeata withdrew from this pa in 1846 and made a stand against the British soldiers at Battle Hill, further up the Horokiwi Valley Other Titles - Pauatahanui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone wash and ink, 200 x 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1857]

From: Government House Collection : Prints of Te Aro flat, Lambton Quay, Parliament Building, Government Buildings, Post Office and Governor's residence

Reference: PAColl-D-0008

Description: Te Aro Flat, Wellington, ca 1857. View looking south-east along Manners Street and Courtenay Place with Mount Victoria in the background and the harbour on the left. Shows Rhodes Wharf and residence on the far left; the arched roof of Kebbell's Mill, middle ground, centre; te Aro Pa with swamps, beyond the mill. Taken by an unidentified photographer. Title on print gives an incorrect date. The Grand Opera House was later built on the site of Kebbell's Mill. Photograph was taken after the 1855 Wellington earthquake. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Building with arched roof is Kebbell's Floor Mill, now the site of the Grand Opera House, and Te Aro Pah beyond.; Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat - 1846; Recto - beneath image - Manners Street is shown connecting with track now Courtenay Place Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: 37.5 x 30.5 cm

Date: 1858

By: Rhodes, Joseph, 1826-1905; Rhodes, Beatrice, active 1978

Reference: A-159-027

Description: Shows Pa by the river in the foreground and hills in the distance. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Waipukurau Pa / on the river Tukituki.; Verso - [Journal notes describing terrain of the area.]; Recto - bottom right - Saturday 3 April. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 187 x 228 mm

Date: 1857 - 1860

By: Brown, William Robert Edward, 1830-1907; Balcombe-Brown, Eliza Mary, 1869-

Reference: B-035-014

Description: Shows part of the entrances to Port Nicholson and Evans Bay, Te Aro, Thorndon, and in the centre foreground, Kaiwharawhara with hotels and the Maori pa. The ship Oliver Laing is the larger vessel in harbour in the distance to the right. The houses on land protruding into the harbour in the near right are in Thorndon; the line of houses at the foot of a cliff by the sea beyond that is Lambton Quay, with 'Plimmer's ark' (the barque Inconstant) moored in the water at the end. The buildings beyond are on Te Aro Flat An ink inscription on the verso reads: A sketch of part of Wellington, N. Z. from the old track across Kai-warra-warra Hill. The straits {Cooks} are visible over the distant hills. Evans Bay is partially visible on the left, the entrance to the bay {Port Nicholson} is again to the left of the hills visible on the extreme left. The ship visible is the "Oliver Laing" from Liverpool. She is about 1299 tons register & thus will give some idea of the distance. The Kai-warra hotels are visible in the immediate foreground on the Hutt road. Close to one of them is a Maori Pah Other Titles - ... from Kaiwharawhara hill Inscriptions: Verso - Title on verso: also pencil inscriptions: W R E Brown, 1860. Mrs Balcombe Brown, Upper Hutt. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 250 x 352 mm Provenance: Purchased at an unknown date, possibly from Mrs Balcombe Brown, ca 1926. The work includes a pencilled reference on the verso to 'Mrs Balcombe Brown, Upper Hutt'

Date: 1842 - 1850 - 1845 - 1860

By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875

Reference: A-113-003

Description: Three Maori seated in the foreground at the edge of a curved river bank with the palisades and a whare or part of a pa to the right. Cabbage trees, flax and manuka trees and other taller trees on a plain. In the middle ground is a European house and outbuildings surrounded by a fence, at the foot of a prominent hill, with other hills in the background to the left. The scene bears a strong resemblance to a view of Kaiapoi, early 1850s, a watercolour in the Canterbury Museum by Charles Haubro. However, the hills in the background make a location further inland in Canterbury more likely. Norman was in the Wellington Region from 1842 to 1845. He is not known to have visited the Waikato area, a location suggested by the Auckland seller of the drawing. He is known to have visited as far north as Auckland itself. In the 1850s until his death in 1872 he was based in the South Island, in Canterbury and South Canterbury, and his undated drawing of Nelson is also in the Library's collection. One possible location for this view is Rangitumau, with the prominent hill being Mount Rangitumau (north of Masterton in the Wairarapa) and the river being either the Whangaehu or the Kopuaranga. If the scene is a Wairarapa one, it is likely to date from between 1842 to 1845. Other Titles - Rangitumau, Wairarapa? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Ed Norman Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, sepia and blue pen and ink 196 x 248 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-043-2

Description: Detail of a carved gatepost, with attached fencing. The gatepost is topped with a carved face, with paua shell eyes. The artist has used the word 'rude' in the sense of primitive or rough Other Titles - Petone Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash, 125 x 75 mm

Date: 1851 - 1860

By: Illustrated London news (Newspaper); Gilfillan, John Alexander, 1793-1863; Sargent, G F, active 1836-1860

Reference: PUBL-0033-1860-386

Description: A view of Putiki Pa, Wanganui, with Mount Taranaki included in the background. There is a surrounding palisade, several raised carved patakas and whares with family groups standing and sitting outside. There are also several dogs. Based on a lithograph by J. A. Gilfillan 'Interior of a native village or 'Pa' in New Zealand, situated near the town of Petre, at Wanganui' [ca 1851]. The fencing and buildings are closely copied, and the figures have been altered somewhat. Gilfillan's lithograph does not have Mount Taranaki behind it. Mount Taranaki is many kilometres distant and in the north, whereas Gilfillan's view faces south. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 180 x 235 mm

Date: 1850 - 1890

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Clere, Richard H, active 1966

Reference: G-003

Description: Shows a waka with four figures and a dog in it, floating on water close to the near shore on which flax bushes are growing. There are two pukeko in the centre foreground. On a promontory or island in the lake or inlet, there is a group of whare, with smoke from a cooking fire rising. Beyond are hills, with the distant range tinged pink in the morning or evening light. Location unknown. The promontory may be an island, and could possibly be around Lake Rotomahana or Tarawera. The landforms are very similar to a view 'Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana' by J G Mitford, a watercolour owned by Rotorua Museum Cleaned and waxed in July 1986 by John Slingsby Barraud, grandson of the artist, Taupo, New Zealand. Attribution from previous owners. Other Titles - [Puai Island and Otukapuarangi, Lake Rotomahana] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 455 x 610 mm. Provenance: Given to Richard H Clere in 1966, by his parents.

Date: 1852

From: Wynyard, Robert Henry 1802-1864 :[Drawings of New Zealand scenes] / R.H.W. - 1852.

Reference: A-081-020

Description: Shows a view from Doubtless Bay, looking into the entrance to Mangonui Harbour. At right is the former site of Rangikapiti Pa, with Captain William Butler's signal mast on top of it. On the left of the entrance is Rangitoto headland (site of Rangitoto Pa), and further left is the coast towards Hihi Bay. In the harbour entrance are about a dozen ships, probably associated with the whaling station at Mangonui. Drawn on the bottom half of the sheet of paper, formerly folded and stitched together as a sketchbook. Other Titles - Mangonui Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monotone ink and wash, 199 x 247 mm, on sheet 382 x 247 mm

Date: 1852

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-011

Description: View from the lower slopes between Brooklyn and Mount Cook, with cows, a herdsman and his dog on the road in the foreground. On the right lie the swamps of Te Aro, with Te Aro Pa visible along the foreshore, along with scattered houses. To the left of the pa area, the road passing diagonally across the plain is probably Cuba Street. The most prominent building on the foreshore is either the Maori or the Wesleyan Chapel in Manners St. The cliff at the water's edge to the left is Clay Point with Plimmer's Ark visible moored in the water at its base. On the far left in the plain area, the large church building is St Peter's, Willis St. Thorndon is in the background to the left, with Pipitea Point (now Thorndon Quay) and Kumutoto Spit (now Midland Park) both visible. The preliminary watercolour for this work is located at C-007-007 with title 'Te Aro and Thorndon, 1852'. It is dated 1852 and lacks the cows, herdsman and dog of C-007-0011, but shows more of the swamps of Te Aro, with Waitangi Creek meandering through them. The building details are less clear in the preliminary work. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1975 as part of the Colonial Wellington Series. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 349 x 508 mm

Date: 1855

From: Strutt, William 1825-1915 :A collection of drawings in water colour ink and pencil illustrative of the scenery and early life of settlers and Maoris of New Zealand. 1855-1863. 2nd series.

By: Strutt, William, 1825-1915

Reference: E-453-f-012-1

Description: The interior of a pa, with a whare and the palisades. Two people are seated, weeping, while a visiting man stands alongside and another person lies outside the whare. Two more visitors are standing nearby on the left, their heads bowed. One visitor is carrying a baby on her back. Two pigs are asleep on the ground in the right foreground and two kete, or food baskets lie on the ground in the left foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash 115 x 165 mm