Places

Date: [1890s-1900s]

From: Gear Meat Company Ltd :Photographs of Gear Meat Co

By: Gear Meat Company Ltd

Reference: PAColl-D-0185

Description: Photograph of the Gear Meat Company, Petone looking south to Somes Island. Photographer unidentified; date possibly 1890s or early 1900s. A closer view of image at PAColl-D-0162 Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 320 x 570 mm with mount

Date: 1930

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-158

Description: Shows a stream with plants either side, and a house with plants around it. The house is two storey and cream coloured with a verandah and two chimneys. Tararua Range is visible in the background. In the foreground is what looks to be a handrail made of branches leading down a bank to the stream Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 135 x 215 mm

Date: 1930

From: Wills, Mary Ann, 1859?-1942: [Collection of watercolours, oil paintings, and albums by Mary Wills, primarily of landscapes. 1885-1936]

Reference: A-462-183

Description: Shows a house (with a smoking chimney), a fenced grass area, trees, and a snow capped mountain. The sky is yellowish suggesting early morning or evening Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 132 x 215 mm

Date: 1893

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-1669

Description: Shows details of top of chimney stacks, fireplaces and front elevation Stamped: Clere Fitzgerald & Richmond. 1893 Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour drawing on cream wove paper

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-054

Description: Shows a bush clearing with tall trees at left and right, beside a thatched cottage whose roof extends on the left side almost to the ground. There is a slab chiney on the near side, and to the right a woman stands beside a barrel. There is another low thatched hut at the left. In the left foreground lies a tree trunk. There is a solitary tree fern behind the house. Louis E Ward's "Early Wellington" (1928) notes on page 300, that a Mr Russell (spelt with a double l) was living at Taita in 1852 (quotes the 'Australian and New Zealand gazette' for 12 June 1852). Other Titles - Russell's Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [At extreme top right of mat]: 5 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 135 x 188 mm, mounted on sheet 224 x 300 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1868

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Goodman Fielder Wattie (N.Z.)

Reference: C-119-022

Description: Shows in foreground a circular island of garden with a grass border, in the centre of a circular driveway. A gardener kneels to tend plants at the left, and a dog sits keeping him company. At the right is an herbaceous border, in front of the partly obscured Wellington Terrace. Across the Terrace is a wooden house with finials, brick chimney, shingled roof, and a "To Let" sign in the window. Beyond this in the right background is Wellington Harbour and the flat area of Lower Hutt. In the centre background behind the circular garden, is the shingle roof, finial, brick chimney, and H-shaped metal chimney-pot of a neighbouring house, possibly that owned in 1878/79 (see Wise's Post Office Directory) by Joseph Nancarrow. Beyond is a pier projecting out from Lambton Quay, with Midland Point beyond. In the left background is the Boys' Grammar School (with spire) on Clifton Terrace and further north St Mary's Church, Hill Street; on the crest of the hill on the top left now the area occupied by the suburb of Wadestown, is Captain William Barnard Rhodes' house, "The Grange". Sometimes entitled: "A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley" or "Wellington from Flagstaff Hill". Previously thought to be a view from Mr Hays' residence. Sharp's residence was on the upper side of the Terrace, probably just north of the present join with Salamanca Road. According to notes compiled by B. M. Igglesden, grandson (TL 3/1/1, 1 August 1985), the gardens of the property extended from Mount Street to Everton Terrace, and when the estate was later cut up, 25 homes were built on the land, including Sir Robert Stout's home. See also notes at TL 3/1/1, 8 May 1985, or the Evening Post of 29 September 1928, for notes about the Sharp household (and other houses on the Terrace). Other Titles - Wellington from Flagstaff Hill Other Titles - A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Igglesden - Decr. 1868 Igglesden was the nephew of Captain Sharp, and was living in Wellington at this time, being commissioned a Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Wellington Militia on 2 December 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 384 x 519 mm Provenance: Sold at Philips, London, September 1984. Bought by a Melbourne dealer for £2,100. Auctioned at McArthur's, 10 May 1985, and bought by the Goodman Group.

Date: 1854

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-021

Description: Two wooden dwellings, side by side, the nearer with a slab chimney. A man is seated on the ground outside, reading, watched by two seated Maori from a distance. "Willie" is William John Swainson, the son of the artist On verso of A-188-021/001: [Tree fern], by Edith Stanway (Swainson) Halcombe. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Willies Cottage Upper Hutt; Dated: "Nov. 1854" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 100 x 165 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-053

Description: Shows a raupo or flax hut with wooden batten structure to hold the raupo in place. There is a small window in the near wall which appears to be supported by two props. The roof is thatched and there is a slab chimney at the right side. There are hills in the background. A later hand has sketched in pencil a suggestion of a woman feeding four chickens. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [Immediately beside mounted image] 16; Mat recto - bottom right - [At extreme lower right corner of mat]: 8 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 172 x 130 mm, mounted on sheet 305 x 238 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1889

By: Young, John Henry, 1869-1937

Reference: G-265

Description: Shows a view from the lower slopes of Kelburn. The top of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church can be seen, and Government House with tower and flag flying. Six or seven tall industrial chimneys and the gasometer stand out on the flat area of the city at Te Aro. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J H Young 1889 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 385 x 590 mm (sight) Provenance: Sold at Dunbar Sloane's in the 1980s (evidence from a photograph supplied by Dunbar Sloane's).

Date: 1857

By: Beetham, Lucelle Frances, 1842-1910; Healey, Trevor Woodford, 1929-2018

Reference: A-188-033

Description: The family home with three gables and a lean-to, an attic storey in the gables on either side of the front door. Tall chimneys at both ends of the house, and an established garden, with a circular bed in front of the house. Bush is shown behind. The house was in Lower Hutt Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Initialled L F S Lucelle Frances Swainson (1842-1910) was the daughter of noted botanist William Swainson (1824-1887). Fern Grove was the second house built in Lower Hutt by the Swainson family. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 175 x 252 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-051

Description: Shows a hut with a thatched roof and slab chimney, with clumps of flax in the foreground. In the right background is another hut with a more steeply pitched roof. There are hills in the distance. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [At extreme top right of mat] 9 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 130 x 164 mm, mounted on sheet 236 x 298 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1905

From: Tait, Robert, 1830-1926 :[17 architectural plans, mostly Wellington region; including 1874 Lower Hutt Anglican Church & plans for house in Harrold Street, Kelburn. 1870-1890s].

By: Tait, Robert, 1830-1926; Linton, Catherine, active 1996; Smith, Ivy Janet, 1889-1984

Reference: Plans-97-001-004

Description: Shows plan, elevations and roof plan of single-storey house with bay windows, verandah, central hall with skylight, three bedrooms, six fireplaces and three chimneys. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - (in the hand of Ivy Janet Morton Smith, granddaughter of the architect). Uncle Bob and Auntie [N....] Tait's house 1905.; Recto - beneath image - This is the plan referrred to in the agreement made this 12th day of July 1905 between Mr Robert Tait jnr and Low & Pearce, builders. Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink and watercolour, 390 x 560 mm. Provenance: The donor is a great-great-granddaughter of the architect, after whom the Wellington suburb of Taitville was named.

Date: 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-043-023

Description: Shows a thatched building with two chimneys near the shore at Waikanae, with Kapiti Island in the distance. A few of the poles and palisades of the pa at Waikanae are visible at the far left. Two figures walk in the centre right foreground. Jenkins' was the first European building at Waikanae, owned by William Jenkins. Backing board (accompanying) has clipping about William Jenkins from a published source. Jenkins' cottage survived until 1986, when it was demolished as beyond repair Other Titles - Waikanae Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Jenkins House; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing on joined paper, total 72 x 146 mm.

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-052

Description: Shows a hut with a thatched roof, and slab chimney with wood planks on its upper part. There is a fence and trees at the left. A later hand has sketched a suggestion of a rooster in the left foreground. Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [At extreme top right of mat] 30 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 108 x 165 mm, mounted on white backing on grey sheet 236 x 303 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-020

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest. A European man is standing and a woman seated at the foot of a huge trunk to the right. In the background is a thatched cottage with a slab chimney at its right end, a picket fence on either side and large trees beyond, with a suggestion of hills in the distance Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. (and date covered with glued-on mat); Recto - top left - 22 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 70 x 118 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-050

Description: Shows three huts with steep-pitched thatched roofs, rush walls and small windows. The central hut is enclosed by a small wooden fence. The one at right foreground has a high stone chimney. A man is repairing or reapplying flax or rushes to the walls. In extreme right foreground grows a flax bush. There are hills in the background. The furthest cottage may be the building used as the first courthouse; see note for image at A-190-014. Very similar to the work at A-190-013 Other Titles - Petone; New Zealand Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [Immediately beside mounted image] 60; [At extreme top right of mat] 7 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 133 x 212 mm, mounted on sheet 236 x 304 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.

Date: 1850 - 1860

Reference: A-034-011

Description: A whare or small European house, with thatched roof and a slab chimney at one end, beneath a tall tree to the left, with two Maori outside it. Bush and low hills, with a higher slope on the left reaching up to a sharp point, its sides eroded, beyond the house Likely to be in the South Wairarapa, close to the artist's farm Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 105 x 180 mm

Date: 1967

By: Alexander, Frederick Rewi, 1894-1972; Castle, Zillah Vivian, 1911-1997

Reference: G-243

Description: Shows Van der Velden's cottage as it appeared in 1967 from Karaka Bay Road. The wooden house has a red iron roof and a brick chimney at the back. A woman passes by carrying a bag. There is a telegraph pole in the foreground. This cottage was built by Newtown pharmacist John Castle at 385 Karaka Bay Road for weekend use, around 1900. Rented around 1905 by Van der Velden. Removed from the site or demolished in April 1999. Inscriptions: Verso - centre - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - Fred R. Alexander / 67 Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 250 x 310 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Zillah Castle and family (given to her by the artist in December 1969), and exhibited prior to that, in the National Art Gallery's Van der Velden exhibition in April 1968.

Date: 1845 - 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-186-049

Description: Shows two thatched rush cottages with steeply pitched roofs and slab chimneys, and with a stake fence between them. In the foreground is a pond or swamp with rushes. At the left of the left hut is a Maori figure standing with a spear. There are hills are in the background. Other Titles - Petone Inscriptions: Mat recto - top right - [Immediately beside mounted image] 58; [At extreme top right of mat] 6 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 132 x 193 mm, mounted on sheet 236 x 304 mm. Provenance: Previously held by descendants of the Swainson family.