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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 1845

By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855

Reference: A-191-010

Description: Shows a view looking southward along the footpath, site of the present Hutt Road and rocky shoreline, with the two-storeyed Kaiwharawhara Hotel building, and roofs of a few houses in Thorndon Quay visible in the distance. Two figures are walking along the shore in the middle distance. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W.S.; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing, 123 x 168 mm. Provenance: The vendor purchased this from a Wellington dealer in the early 1990s.

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: 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