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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.

Reference: B-049-032/034

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. The top view looks across cleared land towards Porirua Harbour, with cows grazing; the central view looks north along Lambton Quay with Barrett's Hotel and other buildings on the left, a group of Maori seated and standing on the waterfront to the right; the bottom view is of a rocky archway on the coast between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki Other Titles - Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-042

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Porirua Paripari Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1840

By: Stanley, Owen, 1811-1850

Reference: E-128-q-003

Description: A view from Charlotte Street (lower Molesworth Street) looking out to Wellington Harbour, with the side and back of Barrett's Hotel on the far left and the back of another house, 'the raupo house' in the centre. A flagstaff flying the Union Jack is alongside the near wall of Barrett's Hotel Copy of a wash drawing 'Barrett's Hotel, Port Nicholson' owned by the Royal Society Tasmania, and held in the collection of the Tasmanian Art Gallery and Museum, Hobart The 'raupo house' had a roof made of raupo and was said to be the first house built on Thorndon Beach (Thorndon Quay). It stood at the base of Charlotte Street, later Molesworth Street, on the right side as you face the sea, with Barrett's Hotel on the left side. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph (postcard), 89 x 139 mm glued to sheet 276 x 215 mm

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-144-046-2

Description: Looking down Molesworth Street to Wellington Harbour, with Government House and its flagpole and sentry box on the right. Three Maori stand in the road with a dog. A fourth man is seated by the roadside. The cliff above Lambton Quay is in the right background. Several shops in the harbour. A building, probably Barrett's Hotel is at the foot of the road, by the harbour. Part of another building is on the left, with three European men seated in the shade outside Other Titles - Government Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W M 1851 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 8.4 x 12.6 inches

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?