Places

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

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. 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. This 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. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1841 - 1842

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: B-043-011

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with European sails in the foreground near two bush-topped rocks. In the middle distance on shore, is a large tent, the camp of Arthur Wakefield's preliminary expedition's shore-party, with the brig "Arrow" at anchor to the right. The snow-capped Arthur Range is in the background. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Recto - bottom left - No. 3 / Portfolio D; Recto - bottom right - Chas. Heaphy; Date-stamped: 23.3.1842 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 480 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company Collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, from Francis Edwards, London, 1915.