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Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-032-a

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 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-110-057

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: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-033-a

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-032-b

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-031-b

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-031-a

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 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: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: B-110-056

Description: Left one-third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows houses along foreshore of Lambton Quay and Thorndon. Shows Tinakore [sic] Range, Kai Wara Wara [sic], Nga Hauranga [sic], the Terrace, Willis & Co.'s store, Kumu Toto Point and Pa, Doctor Evan's house, Colonel Wakefield's house, Barrett's hotel, Medical hall, Company's Emigration Barracks, and Government flagstaff. Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Thorndon Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 457 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.

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-033-b

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-031/033-c

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1842 - 1847

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: B-049-065/067

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate [Plate 22, double page spread at end of volume Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, on sheet 381 x 550 mm.

Date: 1971 - 1842

From: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :[The Heaphy lithographs of Wellington & Nelson] / drawn... by Chas. Heaphy ; T. Allom lithog. - Christchurch ; Avon Prints, 1971.

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-032

Description: View from Clay Point looking north along the beachline, modern Lambton Quay Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, coloured, ca 355 x 520 mm on sheet 540 x 660 mm

Date: 1971

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Avon Fine Prints

Reference: C-061-031/033

Description: Contents: View of a part of the town of Wellington, New Zealand--Part of Lambton Harbour, Port Nicholson, New Zealand--View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman's Gulf, New Zealand. Title from text sheet Lithographed in 1842 from watercolours, 1841 No. 4 of edition of 2000 Same : 2nd and 3rd copies (and 4th of C-061-033). Nos. 13 and 14 (C-061-031-033-a-b) and 5 (C-061-033-c) Same. 3 extra copies, annotated, in folder accompanying 026-001-a. Same, 1 extra copy, annotated. Supplementary material C-026-002-c Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs col., ca 355 x 520 mm + text sheet. on sheets 540 x 660 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: 1842 - 1847

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-0020-22-1

Description: View taken from the terrace in the garden of Dr George Samuel Evans, whose residence is shown in the left foreground. The first house below this on the hill at left, is that of Mr Mocatta. Beyond that house, rather indistinctly, are the New Zealand Company's Survey Offices, Stores, and the Emigration Houses; Messrs Clifford and Vavasour's Establishment, &c., &c. The Hutt Valley is in the distance, with the Hutt Road shown at the left of the harbour. In the centre, the large group of buildings comprises the Supreme Courts, Major Richmond's and the Government Offices; the Thistle Inn, Major Hornbrook's Stores, &c., and a little further to the right, the back of Barrett's may be seen by the side of the harbour. Further along is Mr Fox's house (under a vessel sailing into Lambton Harbour; Colonel Wakefield's residence, with the flagstaff, is a little further to the right, on rising ground, and at a greater distance. Passing on, the eye ranges down the beach to the house at Kuma Toto; Windy Point a little beyond, and Te Aro Flat in the distance. The large roof seen just to the right of Colonel Wakefield's flag-staff, is the Church of England, and the foreground on this side is finished by the residence and grounds of Mr Chetham Strode, which joins Dr Evans' premises. Other Titles - [Plate 65] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 77 x 513 mm., on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1840 - 1841

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-011-006

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down over Thorndon, showing the Immigration Barracks, the first St Paul's Church and a single house on the shore at Oriental Bay. The view looks across the harbour towards Mount Victoria and Evans Bay. There are several dead trees on Thorndon Flat. Point Jerningham is on the left across the water, and there are six ships and several smaller vessels in the harbour. Two flags are flying close to the shore The Hocken Library holds a lithograph (possibly a unique surviving copy) of this view, published by Jones & Bluett, Wellington, 1841. The view is taken at much the same time as Heaphy's 'Thorndon Flat, April 1841' (C-025-010) Features marked along the top, but trimmed, so that they are all incomplete: 'n Houses' is probably Immigration Houses'; 'a Esq.r' is probably Duppa Esquire [house in Oriental Bay]; 'Church' is probably St Paul's Church; 'ia' is the end of Mt Victoria; 'Bay' on the left, is Evans Bay. Dating: the associated lithograph was published in 1843. St Paul's Church, Museum Street, was consecrated in 1844, but possibly completed some time before 1844. Other Titles - Tinakori Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 206 x 307 mm Provenance: Collection of Alexander Turnbull, purchased 1915, from Francis Edwards. Formerly New Zealand Company collection

Date: 1842

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-653

Description: Shows Thorndon and Te Aro, stores, houses, hotels, wharves, flagstaff, the Exchange, customhouse office, post office, man on horseback, settlers, Maoris, and ships in the harbour Original of: Day & Haghe. The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington. Published in Wakefield, E.J. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, 1845. Plate 4. For identification of buildings, refer to text of this publication. Smith was a New Zealand Company employee at the time of painting this oil and it was probably painted for the Company or as a promotion for colonisation of Wellington. Dimensions including frame: 460 x 1195 mm. Earlier frame, replaced in 1986 and again in 1990 included rounded upper inner corners. Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on canvas 320 x 1060 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull?

Date: 1841

Reference: C-011-001

Description: Features of the landscape named, including J. C. Crawford's farm. Watt's Peninsula is now known as Miramar Peninsula and this view is from the lower slopes of Mount Crawford, looking out towards Cook Strait with Evans Bay and Lyall Bay on the right, the harbour entrance on the left, and Burnham Water (later drained and now the site of Miramar) in the centre. The Kaikouras can be seen in the distance (Mt Tapuaenuku) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing with touches of blue watercolour 215 x 513 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection, purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915

Date: 1842 - 1847

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-0020-22

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Other Titles - Captain Sharp [Plate 65] Quantity: 3 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.