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Date: 1844 - 1846

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938

Reference: B-061-003

Description: A view from below the summit of The Terrace, looking south down onto Te Aro and along the beach towards Mount Victoria and Oriental Bay. There are houses along the shoreline, a jetty, Manners Street runs parallel to the shore and there are houses dotted back over the flat land. There is low scrub in the foreground Appears to be a copy of the left side of of S C Brees' "Te Aro flat from near Captain Sharpe's residence" which shows Wellington in 1844 or 1845. (Panorama plate 66 in Brees' Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand, published London, 1847). Some details differ. The road in the left foreground is more marked, there are additional houses stretching back over the valley floor, and several buildings nearer the foreground are different from Brees' engraving, as are the details of the outline of Mount Victoria and the cliffs leading towards Oriental Bay. Several of these differences can also be observed in the wood engraving of the same view published in the Illustrated London News, 'Wellington, Te Aro flat' Sept 11 1847, p. 168, and in a related oil painting in the National Library of Australia. Both this watercolour and the oil painting may be copied from the Illustrated London news. The style of the watercolour is very like that of W. S. Hatton, who is known to have copied many views from the Illustrated London news, although his or her work was normally signed. Paper watermarked D & C Blauw Other Titles - Hatton, Walter Scarlett, 1873-1938 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on laid paper, 229 x 381 mm

Date: 1847 - 1966

From: Christmas cards of Ados Chemical Company Ltd, 1965-1969. [Wellington, Ados Chemical Company Ltd]

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: E-279-q-057-2

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River with several other houses, cows on the riverside path on the left, a canoe with a seated Maori in the foreground, a barrel being carried from another canoe or rowboat close to the hotel and a bullock team and wagon in the background. Behind the houses and hotel is dense bush. From an original by S C Brees, painted between 1842 and 1845. Original for photo-mechanical print in: Brees, S C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, No 7 Plate 3, published London 1847. The Aglionby Arms on the bank of the Hutt River, stood at the corner of what later became Montague and Mudie streets [Information on Christmas card] Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 80 x 126 mm

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-465-010

Description: shows the back of Francis Molesworth's house and stables in the Hutt Valley, with forest behind. The house shows its distinctive tree trunks supporting the verandah. In the foreground a group of Maori and Pakeha workers are resting beside a log bridge See other examples at A-259-044-a and B-049-056/058 Other Titles - Honourable Extended Title - In: Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 19. 58 See also William Mein Smith's watercolour of the house, known as 'Newry', at A-263-007 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 97 x 147 mm (plate mark)

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-109-029/031

Description: Views of a sawmill on the Manawatu River; of the fort on the Hutt River; of Hawkestone Street and Tinakori Hill, with the houses of John Wicksteed and of Mr St Hill Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-449-013

Description: View of lower Mulgrave Street, with the first court building shown on the higher side of the street. A small European house with a woman and child outside can be seen across the street on the lower side, with a vegetable garden at the back of the house. Groups of men stand outside the courthouse; two men are on horseback. The Thistle Inn lies just beyond the courthouse, at the water's edge, and the harbour and Te Aro are visible in the background Based on a watercolour by Brees, held by the Library, located at B-031-009 Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 120 x 195 mm on sheet 134 x 252 mm

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.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: B-049-065/067

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate [Plate 22, double page spread at end of volume Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings, on sheet 381 x 550 mm.

Date: 1843 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-005

Description: Shows the windmill, looking south towards Mount Cook (with the barracks on top in the distance), Brooklyn hills and Te Aro from the foot of Mount Victoria where Oriental Bay Road begins. There is a sandy beach in the left foreground, with a man sifting sand or shells, probably for construction. The man is being watched by three children. Bullock carts are visible at the foot of the windmill and there are several other buildings close to it. There are two hens in the yard close to a house in the right foreground, and a square wooden construction in the right foreground, possibly a small lime-kiln. The windmill, or flourmill, was built in March 1843 at the foot of Marjoribanks Street and Kent Terrace junction, the present site of the Embassy Theatre. It was the only open-structured mill in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 181 x 370 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951

Reference: B-031-002

Description: View from where Moreing's Creek enters the Hutt River, looking south towards Petone, with the Western Hills to the right. H. W. Petre's house is the furthest house to the far right and the other houses are spread along Petone foreshore. Two horsemen about to cross the bridge over the creek, a Maori man on the far side of the creek and flax lining both river and creek. The central large house may be the Queen's Head Inn Original of no 41 in Brees' "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" Petre's house on the right is likely to be his first home at Petone, rather than his second built at Woburn, which was further into the valley and on the other side of the Hutt River. Other Titles - Petone. Moreings Creek Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre right: Petoni [in brown brushpoint. Artist's inscription]. Verso: top centre, in ink 'Plate 13'. Bottom centre: 'Take a piece off ground & sky' [instructions to engraver] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 279 mm

Date: 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: E-070-005

Description: According to Brees in his "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand" p.34: "This view is taken on Section 28 of the Ohiro District, which is a very beautiful spot. If the house should ever be completed as the learned and tasteful owner intended, it will have a truly English appearance ... the section is moderately hilly and the soil good." Shows flock of sheep with shepherd in foreground, large house set back against bush-clad hills. The flatter ground in the foreground has been cleared for grazing. Ohiro was the early name for Brooklyn hill and the area beyond as far as the sea Extended Title - From: Brees, S C. Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) plate 20, no 61 Photograph of original watercolour, privately owned, neg 35174 1/2, title: Judge Halswell's Ohiro. Image is substantially the same as the engraving. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 85 x 135 mm

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.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-22-1

Description: View taken from the terrace in the garden of Dr George Samuel Evans, whose residence is shown in the left foreground. The first house below this on the hill at left, is that of Mr Mocatta. Beyond that house, rather indistinctly, are the New Zealand Company's Survey Offices, Stores, and the Emigration Houses; Messrs Clifford and Vavasour's Establishment, &c., &c. The Hutt Valley is in the distance, with the Hutt Road shown at the left of the harbour. In the centre, the large group of buildings comprises the Supreme Courts, Major Richmond's and the Government Offices; the Thistle Inn, Major Hornbrook's Stores, &c., and a little further to the right, the back of Barrett's may be seen by the side of the harbour. Further along is Mr Fox's house (under a vessel sailing into Lambton Harbour; Colonel Wakefield's residence, with the flagstaff, is a little further to the right, on rising ground, and at a greater distance. Passing on, the eye ranges down the beach to the house at Kuma Toto; Windy Point a little beyond, and Te Aro Flat in the distance. The large roof seen just to the right of Colonel Wakefield's flag-staff, is the Church of England, and the foreground on this side is finished by the residence and grounds of Mr Chetham Strode, which joins Dr Evans' premises. Other Titles - [Plate 65] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 77 x 513 mm., on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847 - 1845

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 18. 53. The beach near Major Baker's residence, Wellington. 54. Makaenuku Pa, district of the Hutt. 55. The barracks Thorndon Wellington. Drawn by S C Brees, late principal surveyor to the New Zealand Company. Engraved by Henry Melville. [1847].

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: A-343-001-1

Description: A view along a beach (now Thorndon Quay) looking towards Kaiwharawhara and Wadestown, with the road to to Wadestown shown winding up the hill in the background. There are houses at the beachfront on the left, mostly at the top of the low hill above the beach. Major Baker's house appears as a roof only, with a tree in front of it. A couple on horseback is in the foreground and a Maori man, woman and child stand at the left. The Library holds a photographic copy of the privately-owned watercolour original for this engraving, painted between 1842 and 1845 (negative 138581 1/2). The watercolour has no Maori group on the left but is otherwise very similar to the engraving Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 75 x 130 mm on sheet 380 x 280 mm.

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-025

Description: Buildings shown are the whaling station at Te Kopi, Palliser Bay. See similar view, with title, reproduced in McArthur's auction catalogue for sale 4 August 1987, lot 52. Shows a high rock, being climbed by three Pakeha men, on the right, a cluster of several low buildings near the shore and a path through low scrub in the foreground. A Maori woman [?] is walking away from the viewer and further along the path is a European man and another person. Date of 1844 is suggested because Brees' watercolour entitled Cape Palliser is dated 1844, and this view is likely to have been taken on the same exploratory trip. There are faint map outlines in pencil on the verso. Other Titles - Whaling station, Te Kopi, Palliser Bay, 1844? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 223 x 378 mm

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.

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-22

Description: Three panoramic views of Wellington, between 1842 and 1845. The top view stretches across Thorndon Flat with Dr Evans' house on the left, a range of early houses and businesses along the waterfront and on the right, Colonel William Wakefield's house with flagpole. The centre view looks down over Te Aro Flat towards Mt Victoria. The lowest view is a completely circular one looking down onto Wellington Harbour and Evans Bay from the top of Mount Victoria. The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Other Titles - Captain Sharp [Plate 65] Quantity: 3 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engravings, on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

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

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-17-1

Description: A Maori family in the foreground, with the buildings of Simmonds and Hoggard's Windmill behind them (now the site of the Embassy Theatre at the foot of Mount Victoria). Part way up the hill to the left is 'Victoria Cottage' (the top of Marjoribanks Street). This was William Fitzherbert's farm cottage. The windmill was built in 1843. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving 69 x 139 mm

Date: 1843 - 1847 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-343-005

Description: Shows a group of Maori launching or beaching two canoes in the Paremata inlet. The palisades of the pa are seen to the left, with more beached canoes, and a row of wooden poles stretching into the water in the middle distance. ATL holds the book in which this print was published at Art Rm: f 919.31 BRE. Print trimmed close to the top of the image Other Titles - Paremata Pa, Porirua Extended Title - From S C Brees' "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, J Williams, 1847. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Hand-coloured engraving, 79 x 139 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

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

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: PUBL-0020-05-3

Description: Shows Maori and Pakeha seated and standing close to barrels in the foreground, a dog, then people engaged in various activities close to buildings at the water's edge. Washing hanging on a clothes-line to the right, with the harbour and hills beyond. The accompanying text mentions the long-established nature of the whaling station of Joseph Toms (also known as Geordie Bolts) and the fact that Toms also ran an inn and a ferry service across the harbour from this point. The view shows the house and sheds of Toms and his family. Thoms whaling station was situated next to the Ngati Te Ra pa (fortified settlement) at Whitianga, or Paremata as it is now known. The whaling station was established by Joseph Thoms, whaler-trader, and later sold. James Cootes (whaler) also lived there. Cootes' eldest children Tame and Hemi (Tiapo) were born at this station or the pa next to it. The pa was occupied by Ngati Te Ra, a hapu of Ngati Toa. The two principal chiefs of this pa were Te Rakaherea and Te Kanawa. Te Rakaherea later relocated to Poroutawhao (Levin) with Te Rangihaeata were they both lived out their days. Other Titles - Porirua Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand coloured 86 x 145 mm

Date: 1845 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870

Reference: A-449-012

Description: View from the top of the Terrace looking down over Te Aro Flat with Mount Victoria in the distance. Manners Street can clearly be seen in the bottom left of the picture, leading to the Wesleyan Chapel on the right-hand side of the road. Wellington Harbour can be seen on the left of the view, with ships dotted in the harbour The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 110 x 310 mm on sheet 125 x 440 mm