Places

Date: 1849

By: Wynyard, Robert Henry (Sir), 1802-1864

Reference: B-189-012

Description: View looking down Princes Street towards Emily Place, with St Paul's church at the foot of the street, the harbour beyond. The long low house to the right of the church would have been that of Brigade-Major Joseph Greenwood. To the extreme left, the original Wood's Royal Hotel can be seen, with its verandah partly enclosed with lattice. The two-storey building next door to it is the Royal Masonic Hotel, and beside that, the Union Bank of Australia. Various men, women and children are standing or sitting in the street, and a carriage drawn by two horses, carrying four people, rides up the street According to Una Platts' 'The lively capital: Auckland 1840-1865', the image is given the title 'Princes Street, Auckland, 1849, with Colonel Wynyard's carriage'; this title does not appear on the original and may come from family knowledge Wynyard made two versions of the scene; the other is privately owned. The Library holds a photographic reference to this version Other Titles - Street Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Princes St. 1849 [in ink] See also John Williams' pencil and crayon drawing of the same scene, about 1850, at A-079-021 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash on paper, 183 x 222 mm, hinged to gate-fold matt 480 x 403 mm Provenance: Previously from a sketchbook of R H Wynyard's, owned by R Lewin Wynyard, Auckland (see U Platts, 'The lively capital ...', 1971, List of illustrations p.257)

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-007

Description: View from lower Wadestown over the roofs of Thorndon houses, towards Kaiwharawhara, with the Hotel on the spit, and along the hills at the edge of the harbour towards Lower Hutt. A faint pencil drawing of a seated man is on the left in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 236 mm

Date: 1843

From: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham 1820-1879 :Illustrations to "Adventure in New Zealand". Lithographed from original drawings taken on the spot by Mrs Wicksteed, Miss King, Mrs Fox, Mr John Saxton, Mr Charles Heaphy, Mr S. C. Brees and Captain W. Mein Smith. London, Smith Elder & Co, 1845.

Reference: PUBL-0011-09-1

Description: The first and left-hand section of a three part panoramic view of New Plymouth, shortly after its establishment as a New Zealand Company settlement. Shows the mouth of the Huatoki Stream and the waterfront of the township, with cows drinking at the water's edge, the stream bridged, with a canoe sailing along it, houses and various features indicated, including "Point near the mouth of the Waitera [Waitara] River, Company's Emigration Depot, Company's Hospital and forge, Mr Merchant['s house], Messrs Perry, Mr Shaw, Company's Survey Officer, Wesleyan Chapel, Company's Store, Devon Hotel, Freemason Arms, Mr Ibbotson, Mr Scott, Mr Lakeman, Church, Messrs Vercoe, Mr Webster, Mr Grube". A small boat is being dragged out of a tent shelter on the left, several people are tilling crops in their gardens, there are sheep on the background hills to the left, people and horses and carts in the streets, and barrels outside the Freemason's Arms. The accompanying text reads: The spectator stands with his back to the sea, in the garden of the [New Zealand or Plymouth] Company's agent. There is only an open Roadstead [Harbour] here, and the colonists are essentially agricultural. Surf-boats, however, and excellent moorings, provided by the Company, facilitate the landing of passengers and goods. Mount Egmont is distant about fifteen miles. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 237 x 475 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: 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: 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 - 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: 1849

By: Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant (Hon), 1820-1895; McLeod, Katie, active 1990

Reference: B-063-041

Description: Shows the Akaroa foreshore with James Bruce's hotel and jetty, tents and cottages, a flagpole, canoes and a bridge over the small Kaitangata Stream, with hills beyond. Some figures appear to be Maori, and there are crossed canoe paddles forming the open end of the tent or whare on the right. The view is located in southern Akaroa, in 'English Town' Compare with ink sketch of same scene, with same title and date, also by Mantell (A-049-023). Other Titles - January Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Akaroa / 22 Jan.1849. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 272 x 382 mm.

Date: 1847 - 1849

From: Gold, Charles Emilius 1809-1871 :Sketches by General Gold, 1846 to 1860

By: Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871

Reference: A-288-009

Description: Four huts surrounded by palisades on the sloping foreshore, two Maori standing near the water's edge, the two-storied building of the Kaiwharawhara hotel on its spit of land to the left and the Hutt Road and Hutt Valley beyond. Inscriptions: Verso - A picture of New Zealand by CEG [in pencil, probably in the artist's daughter's hand]. My dearres My dearrest Car [in ink, apparently written by the artist in his old age to his daughter Caroline] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 182 x 266 mm Provenance: Family descent, to London dealer (1991) to Auckland dealer (1991)

Date: 1840 - 1849

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889; Crawford, Henry Nevay (Brigadier), 1907-1993

Reference: A-229-008

Description: Kaiwharawhara stream and bridge in foreground; across the stream is a raupo hut and John Lodge's two-storeyed public house (also known as the Rainbow Hotel or Kaiwharawhara Hotel). The raupo whare is either one built for road-makers, or the immigration barracks built by Te Kaeaea (Taringa Kuri) to house Scottish colonists put ashore at Kaiwharawhara in December 1840. The area is shown before the 1855 earthquake, which raised the flat land in this part, and made the stream more shallow. The road up the hill on the near side of the stream is the Porirua Bridle Path, 6 feet wide. On the far side of the stream is the original Porirua coach road. (Information from Kapi-Mana news, Vol 23 no. 14, 10 March 1981, p. 22, by William Secker). Original deposited by on indefinite loan by Brigadier H N Crawford, August 1968. (See TL 2/56). Bequeathed to the Library in 1993 See also Onslow Historian, Vol 6 no 3, 1976, p. 9. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 177 x 261 mm

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: 1846 - 1847

From: [Crawford, James Coutts] 1817-1889 :[Pencil sketches and watercolours of New Zealand 1839-1850]

By: Crawford, James Coutts, 1817-1889

Reference: A-229-043

Description: View from Kaiwharawhara, looking across Thorndon Flat towards Te Aro and Mt Victoria. The Hotel at Kaiwharawhara is in the foreground and Hoggard & Simmonds windmill at the foot of Marjoribanks Street on Mt Victoria is clearly shown in the background. Kaiwharawhara stream is bridged and there is a Maori canoe pulling in to the stream mouth. The Mount Cook Barracks, shown as a single large building on top of Mt Cook are also depicted in the background. Simmonds & Hoggards Flourmill was built in 1843. Crawford returned to Wellington in 1846. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and wash on paper 176 x 260 mm

Date: 1848

By: Baker, Richard, 1810-1854

Reference: C-014-015

Description: Shows a view across the flowering gardens of Major Baker's house in Thorndon Quay, to Wellington Harbour, Somes Island, Ward Island, the Hutt Valley and the snow-capped Tararuas. The view is from the verandah two of whose posts divide the view. The Kaiwharawhara Hotel and a moored ship at Kaiwharawhara can be seen at the left. A small child in a dress holds picked flowers in his apron and offers some to a Maori man seated with a basket beside a flower bed. A Maori figure in a red cloak stands over the fence at the left, and another carries a load on her back at the right. There are three tall sailing ships in the harbour and three smaller craft including a waka carrying four figures, in the near left portion of the harbour. According to a note on the back of the work, the small child is Baker's eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker, born 30 December 1845. In 1848, Major Baker owned a two-storeyed building at Kaiwharawhara, and this may also be shown in the picture. (See Ward's "Early Wellington", page 150). Inscriptions: Backing board recto - centre - [Vie]w of Wellington [(Ne]w Zealand) Harbour from Major Richard Baker's verandah, painted by himself about 1848. The child in it was his eldest son Frederick Arnold Baker born 30 December 1845. Baker won prizes for "Bouquet flowers" and turnips, in the Wellington Horticultural Show, 22 January 1842. (See Winsome Shepherd "Wellington's heritage, plants, gardens and landscapes", Wellington 2000, pages 151-153) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 205 x 555 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: 1847 - 1853

From: Pharazyn, Edward de C 1810-1879? :[Sketchbook]

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: E-293-q-001

Description: A series of drawings: "Scotch Jock's" is a thatched-roof cottage with a chimney and a lean-to set amongst bush with 2 men seated on a rock outside, copied from an 1849 drawing by William Swainson; "Buck's store" is a tiny wooden building set amongst bush, with bags of goods and three men outside, copied from William Swainson's "Buck's Portable Store while in Stokes Vally in Oct 1847" (neg. 119176 1/2, privately-owned); a third sketch of a man reclining on a rock, untitled; a fourth and fifth of ngaio trees, both titled "ngaio". Scotch Jock was John Nicol; Buck was George Green Buck. Te Paripari was a settlement above the shore between Paekakariki and Pukerua Bay. It was not at Otaki, as described in the title of this drawing, but on the way to Otaki. John Nichol had a wayside inn at Paripari in the 1840s Other Titles - Te Paripari Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil with ink inscriptions 142 x 231 mm

Date: 1845 - 1890 - 1850 - 1900

By: Rollason, James Bernard Richard Walter, 1856-1906; Futter, Frederick Roy, 1906-2001

Reference: G-701

Description: Shows a coach and four about to cross a bridge over Ngauranga stream in the foreground. The Hutt Road is visible to the right. Three buildings, including Futter's Tavern in the background. There is a half-canoe monument to Te Wharepouri, upright in the ground beyond the buildings and below the hills Quite possibly a copy of an earlier work by another artist. Other known historical paintings by Rollason appear to be copied. He was known to be painting around 1900. See 'Ngauranga, late 1840s' negative 19460 1/2 for a possible original for Rollason's painting. The artist for 'Ngauranga, late 1840s' is unknown and the photographic print was among collection items held by Anthony Murray-Oliver, with no accompanying documentation. It seems likely that the painting was lent for copying in the 1960s. One extra detail in 'Ngauranga, late 1840s' is a cross on top of the hill closest to the sea; however, it lacks the additional cart and horse on the far side of the stream. The painting includes a view of Futter's Tavern. See also Brees, S.C. N'Houranga. engraving, plate 5, no.8 in his Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand (London, 1847) for an earlier view of Ngauranga with the monument to Te Wharepouri Other Titles - Ngahauranga Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Rollason [in red brush-point] Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 440 x 596 mm (sight)

Date: 1847

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-292-061

Description: A detailed view of the houses and streets in the town from a high viewpoint, (the hill behind St Mary's Church) looking out to the west towards the sea. St Mary's Church and the churchyard are in the left foreground. The names of several house-owners are given, along with details of other features, including the houses of [William] Lakeman, Dorset, [Richard] Brown, "G. Inn" [Government Inn?] New Zealand Company houses [i.e. the immigration barracks], the gaol, Kawau Pa on the right, near the sea, a store (or stone?) house, the mill [Huatoki] stream, grass, streets, the bridge and gardens. The position of the South Huatoki Reef is also given, just out to sea, in line with the corner of the pa on the right. Brougham Street runs down the centre of the view, diagonally from the right bottom corner, with Vivian Street branching off to the right. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 163 x 243 mm Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - March 1993, from [MS 50].

Date: 1846

By: Clayton, Matthew Thomas, 1831-1922

Reference: A-078-015

Description: Possibly a later reconstruction of this scene, identifying Barretts Hotel, the two ships and Highland [Park]. The Driver is on the right, with its paddle wheel cover visible; the London is on the left. There is a further building on shore to the left of Barrett's Hotel, with two words written above it, but they appear to read 'Cattle ship' and probably refer to the London. Other Titles - The old country built Barque London Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 280 mm

Date: 1848

By: Kettle, Charles Henry, 1821-1862; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-012-001

Description: Shows "Wickliffe Wharf, Residence of Mr Cuttan, The Manse, Back of Captn Cargill's residence, Mr Jeffrey's tent, Resident Agent's Office, Residence of Mr Kettle, Principal surveyor's office, Commercial Inn, Tent, Emigrant's House, Street Lane, Mr Anderson's stores, Emigrant's house Inscriptions: top left - New Zealand Company stamp date "21 Dec 1848"; Verso - In pencil: "no. 283" Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and Chinese white image 211 x 580 mm on sheet 267 x 637 mm Provenance: Purchased by A H Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915 with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1841

From: Duppa, George, 1817-1888 :Part of the New Plymouth settlement in the district of Taranake. New Zealand. Mount Egmont 30 miles distant. Published October 1841 for the New Zealand Company by Smith Elder & Co., London. Lithography T. Allom from a drawing taken on board the ship Brougham by George Duppa Esq.

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Duppa, George, 1817-1888

Reference: C-029-005-2

Description: The right-hand side of a panoramic view of New Plymouth viewed from the sea, with Mount Egmont, 'Barrett's [Accommodation] Houses and Hotel', 'Native Pah' and the Sugar Loaf Islands 'The islands on which Barrett defeated 3000 natives' Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured, 190 x 753 mm