Places

Date: 1842 - 1847

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870; Hutchison, Alan James Hanna, 1905-2000

Reference: A-259-039

Description: Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 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: 1842 - 1985 - 1845

By: Alexander Turnbull Library; Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865

Reference: C-086-1985-01

Description: Reproductions on a calendar of six coloured engravings by S C Brees, 1842-1845, from the Alexander Turnbull Library: Messrs Clifford and Vavasour's clearing; The Aglionby Arms; Thom's whaling station; Barrett's Hotel, Wellington; Kai-warra sawmill; The courts of justice, Wellington; Tinakore Road, Wellington. Quantity: 6 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in calendar

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-049-006/008

Description: View looking south from the hill at Lowry Bay towards the seal the Aglionby Arms and surrounding houses alongside the Hutt River, with a Maori canoe in the foreground; a rocky foreshore at Porirua, looking south towards the hills Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

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

Reference: B-031-033

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River, with the river bending to the right, and tall trees on the left bank behind the Aglionby Arms Brees in his text to "Pictorial Illustrations" notes: "the nucleus of a village has been formed by Mr Daniel Riddiford, on his section, no.17, in the Lower Hutt, which he has names Aglionby, and Mr Burcham has built an hotel there, for the accommodation of visitors to this fine district ... the white population residing [in the valley of the Hutt] amounted to 644 at the beginning of the year 1845". Original for lithograph in Brees, S C Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, no 7. Inscriptions: On back: Dan Riddiford's stock yard on left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour with gum arabic 202 x 282 mm

Date: 1840 - 1850

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870

Reference: A-032-024

Description: Shows the Aglionby Arms in Lower Hutt leaning dangerously off its foundations. Park's only other known Hutt drawing is dated 1842, but the drawing could have been done as late as the 1850s. The hotel's proprietor, Robert Burcham died in 1854 and his address was given as Aglionby Arms. In 1858 a severe flood in the Hutt caused loss of life. Walter Mantell also records a flood at an earlier date. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 120 x 175 mm

Date: 1876

By: Briscoe, Edward Villiers, 1824?-1899

Reference: MapColl-832.4794cdc/1876/Acc.10350

Description: Cadastral map with topographical details, showing the Hutt River, upstream of Melling, Lower Hutt, southwards past the new bridge to the Aglionby Arms, music hall and Valentine's Hall. Shows a section of a road described as 'the main road from the Wairarapa to Wellington', as well as land purchased by the government for protection purposes, river banks, shingle banks, reclaimed land and section numbers no. 24-5 and 28-9. Hotels, stables, the Oddfellow's hall, Catholic chapel, and the bridge toll house are sited. Section owner names on the map include: Hall, Dodds, Phillips, Hill, Bishop, Buck, Henry Bunny, Burt, Riddiford, Fitzherbert, Mrs Tuckwell, Mrs Brown, Saxby, Bradshaw, Gigger, Detcheon, Valentine, ?Keys (some names are hard to decipher). Other Titles - Briscoe, Edward Villiers, 1824?-1899 :Plan of a portion of the Hutt River [copy of ms map]. Showing the position of the river banks, and protection groins on Thursday the 10th of February 1876. [Signed] Edward V Briscoe, Gov[ernmen]t surveyor. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photographic copy, linen backed, 37 x 61 cm.

Date: 1842 - 1845

From: [Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand. Plate 3. Lowry Bay District & Road, 6; The Aglionby Arms (Burcham's) River Hutt, 7; Porerua Bay, 8. Engraved by Henry Melville; drawn by S C Brees. [1847]

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

Reference: A-109-024

Description: Shows hotel by Hutt River, with several other houses, cows on the riverside path to 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 is dense bush. Brees, S C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand, no 7 Plate 3, published London 1847 Brees in his text to "Pictorial Illustrations" notes: "the nucleus of a village has been formed by Mr Daniel Riddiford, on his section, no.17, in the Lower Hutt, which he has names Aglionby, and Mr Burcham has built an hotel there, for the accommodation of visitors to this fine district ... the white population residing [in the valley of the Hutt] amounted to 644 at the beginning of the year 1845" Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured 124 x 186 mm