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Date: 1842

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843

Reference: E-216-f-087-2

Description: View from above Te Aro Flat wotj houses and other buildings on the flat landl, a few houses, a fence and trees (including a cabbage tree) in the foreground, Pipitea Point and its houses visible in the distance to the left, six sailing ships in the harbour, Somes Island and the Hutt Valley in the distance. Another drawing by B. Connell (E-216-f-069) 'Wellington from the London' suggests that the artist arrived on board the London, in 1842. The state and number of the houses shown also suggest a date not before 1842 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - B. Connell Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on cream wove paper, glued to album page, 153 x 236 mm

Date: 1842

By: Connell, B, active 1840-1843; Brandon, Constance Mary Anne, 1816-1842; Jack, Frances (Lady), active 1920s-1970s

Reference: A-050-021

Description: View from Mount Cook, looking up the harbour, with a few houses of Te Aro and their fences to the right, a single house visible on the shore in Oriental Bay, and in the distance houses around the shore of Pipitea Point, Thorndon. Ships in the harbour and a cabbage tree prominent centre foreground cf. Mrs Hobson's Album, p. 87, drawn by B Connell, of same view. Attribution based on stylistic similarities, despite different media, & Lady Jack's belief that the work was painted by her grandmother, Constance Anne, wife of Alfred de Bathe Brandon. However it remains possible that Constance Brandon is the artist of this work, since work by Connell in the Rex Nan Kivell collection is copied from the work of William Swainson, and it is possible that Connell's views in the Hobson Album were also copies Other Titles - Brandon, Constance Mary Anne Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 138 x 220 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

From: Pearse, John, 1808-1882: [Album. 1851-1856]

Reference: E-455-f-037-3

Description: A moonlit view from Mount Cook, over Wellington and the harbour, looking north. Lambton Quay lies below along the foreshore with Pipitea Point in the background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 137 x 249 mm

Date: 1860

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-005-015

Description: Shows the interior of a whare, with a white-bearded Maori man sitting on the ground beside a fire, a small dog asleep on the ground beside him. A taiaha leans on the wall at the left, and on the far wall hangs a kete and a musket. The man wears a dogskin cloak and an earring. Through the open doorway can be seen a canoe drawn up on the shore of Wellington Harbour, and a group of three figures (two kneeling, apparently blowing on a fire below a cauldron) close to a gap in the fence of wooden spiked poles. A hill, probably the Western Hills near Petone, is visible in the background The title of this work on acquisition, assigned by the seller, was Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. However the man depicted bears a strong resemblance to Honiana Te Puni (compare Barraud's lithograph 'Te Puni' published 1877 as plate II in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive) and the oil paintings held by the Wellington City Council and National Library of Australia. The dogskin cloak being worn, with a lighter patch on the left front opening, is also very like the cloak shown in Barraud's other portraits of Te Puni. If the subject is Te Puni, the whare in which he is seated is more likely to be at Petone Pa than at Pipitea Pa. The sea and hills behind are also positioned as if from a view from of Petone Pa, not those near Pipitea Pa. Other Titles - [Maori in whare at Pipitea Pa. Original title] Epuni Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C. D. Barraud N.Z. 1860 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 235 x 343 mm (mounted)

Date: 1840 - 1857 - 1849 - 1867

From: Ruck, Charlotte Steward, 1840?-1916 :[Scrapbooks, ca 1860 to ca 1899]

Reference: E-309-q-1-002

Description: View from Tinakori Hill, looking down onto Thorndon, showing houses close to Pipitea Point, the harbour beyond and Mount Victoria in the background. There appears to be no housing on Mount Victoria Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Albumen print, 110 x 154 mm