Places

Date: 1842 - 1847 - 1845

From: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. London, John Williams and Co., Library of Arts, 141, Strand, 1847.

Reference: PUBL-0020-02-2

Description: View from the north side of the Ngaio Gorge looking towards Wellington City, with Kaiwharawhara in the middle distance showing the Kaiwharawhara Hotel, a ship at a wharf and several small buildings. The entrance to Evans Bay and Miramar Peninsula are in the background. Two men are chopping trees in the foreground Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 91 x 189 mm

Date: 1852 - 1856

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

By: Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: E-455-f-035

Description: View from the Hutt Road, North of Kaiwharawhara, looking towards the Kaiwharawhara Hotel, with Thorndon and Te Aro in the distance. A sailing ship and smaller boats are on the harbour, and a canoe and small yacht are in the foreground. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 230 x 420 mm

Date: 1857 - 1860

By: Brown, William Robert Edward, 1830-1907; Balcombe-Brown, Eliza Mary, 1869-

Reference: B-035-014

Description: Shows part of the entrances to Port Nicholson and Evans Bay, Te Aro, Thorndon, and in the centre foreground, Kaiwharawhara with hotels and the Maori pa. The ship Oliver Laing is the larger vessel in harbour in the distance to the right. The houses on land protruding into the harbour in the near right are in Thorndon; the line of houses at the foot of a cliff by the sea beyond that is Lambton Quay, with 'Plimmer's ark' (the barque Inconstant) moored in the water at the end. The buildings beyond are on Te Aro Flat An ink inscription on the verso reads: A sketch of part of Wellington, N. Z. from the old track across Kai-warra-warra Hill. The straits {Cooks} are visible over the distant hills. Evans Bay is partially visible on the left, the entrance to the bay {Port Nicholson} is again to the left of the hills visible on the extreme left. The ship visible is the "Oliver Laing" from Liverpool. She is about 1299 tons register & thus will give some idea of the distance. The Kai-warra hotels are visible in the immediate foreground on the Hutt road. Close to one of them is a Maori Pah Other Titles - ... from Kaiwharawhara hill Inscriptions: Verso - Title on verso: also pencil inscriptions: W R E Brown, 1860. Mrs Balcombe Brown, Upper Hutt. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on card, 250 x 352 mm Provenance: Purchased at an unknown date, possibly from Mrs Balcombe Brown, ca 1926. The work includes a pencilled reference on the verso to 'Mrs Balcombe Brown, Upper Hutt'

Date: 1849

From: Collinson, Thomas Bernard 1822-1902 :Seven years service on the borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843-1850

By: Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902

Reference: A-292-071

Description: View from Hill Street area looking south past the garden of Government House (now the site of the Beehive) on the far left, (with what is probably Alfred Domett's garden in the foreground), and towards the original St Paul's Church (Museum Street), along Lambton Quay (the shoreline) and The Terrace (marked as Constitution Hill here), with Te Aro, including the Pa and Mount Cook, with the military barracks in the distance. Stables are also indicated written on the roof of a building beyond the fence of Government House and above Lambton Quay. "The Baron's" (the hotel of Baron von Alzdorf) is indicated too, along Lambton Quay. This drawing forms an inexact panorama with A-292-070. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions on paper, 231 x 331 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

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?

Date: 1857 - 1859

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860.

Reference: E-296-q-170

Description: Three women standing on Mulgrave Street, with the harbour as a background and Mt Victoria and Te Aro in the distance. A horse and cart are on the right, in front of a building belonging to a plumber named Warcup, and the Thistle Inn is beyond, closer to the shore. Quantity: 1 photograph(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Photograph, 102 x 123 mm