Places

Date: 1847 - 1966

From: Christmas cards of Ados Chemical Company Ltd, 1965-1969. [Wellington, Ados Chemical Company Ltd]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: E-279-q-057-2

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River with several other houses, cows on the riverside path on the left, a canoe with a seated Maori in the foreground, a barrel being carried from another canoe or rowboat close to the hotel and a bullock team and wagon in the background. Behind the houses and hotel is dense bush. From an original by S C Brees, painted between 1842 and 1845. Original for photo-mechanical print in: Brees, S C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, No 7 Plate 3, published London 1847. The Aglionby Arms on the bank of the Hutt River, stood at the corner of what later became Montague and Mudie streets [Information on Christmas card] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 80 x 126 mm

Date: 1890

By: Aubrey, Christopher, active 1868-1906; Wilkie, Francis Howard, 1870-1945; Paterson, Nola Laura Noble, 1915-2008

Reference: C-030-030

Description: Shows the railway station and ancillary buildings, including railway cottages, the goods shed and the engine shed. Also shown are St Joseph's Catholic Church, the Provincial Hotel, P A Wilkie's second store (to the right of the hotel), and, to its left, Edward Wilkie's bakery and boarding-house Supplied title. Reproduced in: Kenneally, J M Upper Hutt, Wellington. 1980 (q993.1. KEN) with the following text (p.6). "The artist ... is known to have stayed with station-owners and at hotels and is believed to have left paintings of the district in lieu of board. While staying at Upper Hutt around 1890 he gave two paintings to Francis Howard Wilkie. One is a view of Upper Hutt and the other shows two bridges at the entrance to the Akatarawa Valley. The paintings have since passed to Mr Wilkie's daughter and son-in-law, Mr & Mrs J. H. G. Patterson of Totara Park, Upper Hutt. [Both watercolours in the Turnbull Library from the 1980s]. Shown in the painting of Upper Hutt are railway cottages, station building, goods shed and the engine shed. Also St Joseph's Catholic Church and the Provincial Hotel. On the right of the hotel is P. A. Wilkie's second store built about 1875 when the Fortune Lane community moved north to Upper Hutt to be near the railway station. The building at the left of the Provincial Hotel is Edward Wilkie's bakery and boardinghouse. Other copies: A second, almost identical version of this view was offered at International Art Centre, Auckland, 19 March 2008, lot 26. It was passed in. The only differences between the two works were in small details like the appearance of the cows and in the small group of trees in the left foreground. Both works were of the same dimensions Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper 345 x 550 mm