Places

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-187-048

Description: A small nikau whare in a clearing at the foot of a tree-fern and other taller trees. Drawn 1 June 1845. Caption added later referring to the 1847 Ngati Toa raid on Boulcott's Farm, Hutt Valley. Other Titles - hut Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1 June 1845.; On accompanying label: text of title, with date 24 Feb.y 1847 and initials W. S. in ink Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on buff paper, 112 x 90 mm

Date: 1853

By: Cookson, Janetta Maria, 1812-1866; Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-048-049

Description: Scene in a clearing in Hutt Forest, with tall tree trunks to the left, a low raupo whare centre with a tree fern in front. A Maori figure is crouching at the entrance to the hut. Title from pencil inscription; date on verso. Almost identical to A-048-050 (untitled). Copy of lithograph by Cuthbert Clarke after William Swainson, held by British Library (Add MS 19954, folio 90 (132). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and sepia wash with chinese white 252 x 175 mm

Date: 1846

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-014

Description: A small thatched cottage with a tall conical roof, propped up with branches on three visible sides. A man standing to the left and a barrel lying on the ground near the building, flax bushes in the foreground and the harbour and Western Hutt hills in the background. Probably the first Petone court house building. Compare the building illustrated on p. 12 of Louis Ward's 'Early Wellington'. A very similar building is shown with a caption indicating that this is possibly the court house of the The Settlement at Petone. A further almost identical view on sale at Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 18 April 2010 is titled First Court House, Petoni Beach ... 1846. Other Titles - [Courthouse at The Settlement, Petone?] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 125 x 195 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-035-017

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees. There is a fallen tree trunk in the centre with a man seated on the trunk, his back to the viewer and staff in his hand. Note on verso: Compton's cottage on Daniel's Island, River Hutt in 1843. (The whole cut down and the buildings destroyed - 1847). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. S. 1843-54. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 165 x 224 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-014

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, two cows grazing, watched by a man seated on a tree-root, with the stump of a large tree trunk on the left. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: 1843 - 1847

From: Mantell, Gideon Algernon 1790-1852 :Scrapbook. [ca 1810-1840]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-295-q-046

Description: Thorndon in the foreground, with a gully crossed by a bridge, a house to the right, and a large tree. A man walking up a path towards the bridge and several chopped tree-trunks on the ground. A European cottage with thatched roof and a wooden chimney is in the right foreground. In the middle distance, flat land leading down towards Thorndon Quay with the backs of houses along the beachline. In the distance, the western hills to the left, the Kaiwharawhara Hotel and other houses at the water's edge and part of Wellington Harbour The gully in the foreground is probably now part of the Thorndon motorway Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in pencil, cropped Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 206 x 260 mm

Date: 1843

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Crompton-Smith, Annie Marian, 1877-1965

Reference: A-035-015

Description: A clearing amongst tall native trees, with a the house of George Compton in the background, surrounded by a low fence, the whole viewed through a gap between the trunks of two large trees, with a fallen tree trunk in the centre. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Swainson [in a later hand]; Recto - bottom centre - Title [in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 159 x 229 mm (top unevenly torn)

Date: 1845

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

Reference: A-187-047

Description: The Swainson family home in Lower Hutt, two storied with a gable window in its thatched roof in the upper storey. The house stands in a bush clearing, with another house to its left. Bush-clad hills in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. Swainson Ap. 1845.; Recto - bottom right - W. S. 1845 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, 140 x 216 mm

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: 1841 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-024-004

Description: Petone with the Eastern Hills in the background, flax bushes and two wind-formed bent trees and two cows in the foreground. In the middle distance is a raupo whare with a conical thatched roof Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4.5 x 6.5 ins

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-018

Description: View across a plain, from a clearing in bush, framed with tree ferns. A man is seated on a log, looking out to the view. A large homestead with two chimneys is in the distance, possibly Herongate, Henry Petre's first home in the Petone area. A range of tall hills is in the distance, probably the eastern Hutt hills Inscriptions: Signed: W.S. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 4 x 6.5 ins

Date: 1847 - 1853

From: Pharazyn, Edward de C 1810-1879? :[Sketchbook]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-293-q-001

Description: A series of drawings: "Scotch Jock's" is a thatched-roof cottage with a chimney and a lean-to set amongst bush with 2 men seated on a rock outside, copied from an 1849 drawing by William Swainson; "Buck's store" is a tiny wooden building set amongst bush, with bags of goods and three men outside, copied from William Swainson's "Buck's Portable Store while in Stokes Vally in Oct 1847" (neg. 119176 1/2, privately-owned); a third sketch of a man reclining on a rock, untitled; a fourth and fifth of ngaio trees, both titled "ngaio". Scotch Jock was John Nicol; Buck was George Green Buck. Te Paripari was a settlement above the shore between Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay. It was not at Otaki, as described in the title of this drawing, but on the way to Otaki. John Nichol had a wayside inn at Paripari in the 1840s Other Titles - Te Paripari Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions 142 x 231 mm

Date: 1845 - 1850

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-023-016

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest with a European building with a large thatched roof amidst the trunks of tall trees. A nikau palm to the right and a seated figure at the base of one tree trunk. Two cows in the left foreground Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch, 2.5 x 4 ins

Date: 1840 - 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-006

Description: A clearing in Hutt Forest, with a huge rata tree in the middle distance, two men standing at its base, and a triangular raupo hut to its right Hawkshead was Swainson's property in the Hutt Valley Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5.2 x 3.7 ins

Date: 1847

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-010

Description: A raupo hut, with thatching reaching the ground. A fence to the left and a large tree fern to the right. The hut is in a clearing in Hutt Forest Hawkshead was the Hutt Valley property of William Swainson Other Titles - Native hut New Zealand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 5 x 6.6. ins

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: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-008

Description: The artist's home in a clearing in Hutt Forest. The view is from nearby, showing a two-storied thatched cottage, with another building behind and to the left, two tall trees between the two buildings, the garden in front Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 3.6 x 5.6 ins

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: 1844 - 1856

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: 1/2-031375-F

Description: Photograph of pencil drawing depicting the single-storied two-gabled house known as 'Trentham' built for Richard and Hannah Barton in a setting of tall native bush, known as Barton's Bush The house was completed by 1844, the year Richard Barton married Hannah Butler. It was demolished ca 1939. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of pencil drawing

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855; Leeper, Janet, active 1960s

Reference: A-190-007

Description: The artist's own home in a clearing in Hutt Forest. There is a second, smaller building beyond the main homestead, to the left, a cow in the left foreground, tall trunks and tree ferns Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 4.1 x 5.8 ins