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Date: 1841-ca1930

From: Zoe Martin-Carter: Photographs of Wellington and the Centennial Exhibition

By: Shore Bennett, Beverley Doris, 1928-; Martin-Carter, Zoe, 1870-1947

Reference: PA1-f-171

Description: views of Wellington and many of its principal buildings from settlement in 1840 to about the mid 1940s Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

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.

Date: 1844 - 1846

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938

Reference: B-061-003

Description: A view from below the summit of The Terrace, looking south down onto Te Aro and along the beach towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay. There are houses along the shoreline, a jetty, Manners Street runs parallel to the shore and there are houses dotted back over the flat land. There is low scrub in the foreground Appears to be a copy of the left side of of S C Brees' "Te Aro flat from near Captain Sharpe's residence" which shows Wellington in 1844 or 1845. (Panorama plate 66 in Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, published London, 1847). Some details differ. The road in the left foreground is more marked, there are additional houses stretching back over the valley floor, and several buildings nearer the foreground are different from Brees' engraving, as are the details of the outline of Mount Victoria and the cliffs leading towards Oriental Bay. Several of these differences can also be observed in the wood engraving of the same view published in the Illustrated London News, 'Wellington, Te Aro flat' Sept 11 1847, p. 168, and in a related oil painting in the National Library of Australia. Both this watercolour and the oil painting may be copied from the Illustrated London news. The style of the watercolour is very like that of W. S. Hatton, who is known to have copied many views from the Illustrated London news, although his or her work was normally signed. Paper watermarked D & C Blauw Other Titles - Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 229 x 381 mm

Date: [Between 1840s and 1890s]

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Tyree Brothers (Firm); Reade, M A (Mrs), active 1969

Reference: PA1-o-429

Description: Recent prints from old photographs of Wellington, originally taken between about 1840s and 1890s. Includes one photograph of a painting by William Mein Smith of Wellington waterfront and Te Aro flat, painted in 1842. Only one image identifies the photographer. A photograph of Oriental Bay taken in the 1890s, was by the Tyree Brothers of Nelson. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with red mock-crocodile textured cover, entitled `Photographs'; 26.0 x 36.5 cm Processing information: All the photographs have reference numbers linking them with items in the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collections

Date: 1842

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843; Brandon, Constance Mary Anne, 1816-1842; Jack, Frances (Lady), active 1920s-1970s

Reference: A-050-021

Description: View from Mount Cook, looking up the harbour, with a few houses of Te Aro and their fences to the right, a single house visible on the shore in Oriental Bay, and in the distance houses around the shore of Pipitea Point, Thorndon. Ships in the harbour and a cabbage tree prominent centre foreground cf. Mrs Hobson's Album, p. 87, drawn by B Connell, of same view. Attribution based on stylistic similarities, despite different media, & Lady Jack's belief that the work was painted by her grandmother, Constance Anne, wife of Alfred de Bathe Brandon. However it remains possible that Constance Brandon is the artist of this work, since work by Connell in the Rex Nan Kivell collection is copied from the work of William Swainson, and it is possible that Connell's views in the Hobson Album were also copies Other Titles - Brandon, Constance Mary Anne Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 138 x 220 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.