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Date: 1843 - 1847 - 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-0020-17-1

Description: A Maori family in the foreground, with the buildings of Simmonds and Hoggard's Windmill behind them (now the site of the Embassy Theatre at the foot of Mount Victoria). Part way up the hill to the left is 'Victoria Cottage' (the top of Marjoribanks Street). This was William Fitzherbert's farm cottage. The windmill was built in 1843. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 69 x 139 mm

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-0011-16-2

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. 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: 1877

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Blatchley, W D, active 1877-1898

Reference: PUBL-0016-01

Description: According to the accompanying text "The view ... is from the hills at the southern end of the city, looking northward along the longer axis of the harbour, and was taken towards the close of a fine autumn day when the light of the setting sun was reflected on the distant masses of the Rimutaka and Tararua Ranges..." The lower slopes of Brooklyn Hill are in the foreground, with the houses of Te Aro Flat in the middle ground, part of Mt Victoria on the right, ships in the harbour, Somes Island and Petone with the Tararua Ranges beyond in the distance. The Library holds the original watercolour for this chromolithograph, at B-159-021. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 254 x 355 mm