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Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865 :View looking up Hawkestone Street. Pitone Pah, Welli...
Date: 1847
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865
Reference: A-343-041/043
Description: Includes: 1. View looking up Hawkestone Street, Wellington 2. Pitone Pa, Wellington 3. The beach near Major Baker's residence, Wellington Other Titles - Petone Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, sizes varying Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Papers-9117. - Material from the same provenance is housed at MS-Papers-9117..
Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 18. 53....
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-049-053/055
Description: Three illustrations of scenes in the Wellington area. The top view looks north along the beach (now Thorndon Quay) towards Kaiwharawhara, with several houses along the beach, including the roof and front garden of Major Baker's. The central view, probably at Taita, shows the banks of the Hutt River, with Maori leaving Maraenuku Pā [Makahinuku Pa], overseen by soldiers. The palisades of the pa are to the right, with other buildings and canoes in the distance along the riverbank. The lowest view shows 'The red house' or the Barracks in Thorndon Quay, with soldiers marching up the slope towards them, another house and Tiakiwai Pa (described in Brees' text as 'Jackawai') in the middle distance. Other Titles - Makahinuku Pa Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 380 x 280 mm.
Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869 :From the Pah Pipitea, Port Nicholson, Decr 1840
Date: 1840
By: Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company
Reference: C-011-005
Description: View from inside Pipitea Pa, looking north up the harbour towards the Hutt Valley and the Rimutaka Ranges. In the left foreground, two people sit, wrapped in blankets on bare ground. The edges of the site are defined with palisades of varying heights. On lower ground to the right are a wharenui, a long low building with a single door in the side, and two whata or food storage buildings on poles. Note on verso: Selected to be exhibited in the Academy Gallery for the Chamber of Commerce centennial June 1956, but not shown because of lack of space. Other Titles - Wellington Harbour, December Other Titles - Pa Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and brown ink drawing 205 x 284 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company collection.