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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-049-032/034

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. The top view looks across cleared land towards Porirua Harbour, with cows grazing; the central view looks north along Lambton Quay with Barrett's Hotel and other buildings on the left, a group of Maori seated and standing on the waterfront to the right; the bottom view is of a rocky archway on the coast between Pukerua Bay and Paekakariki Other Titles - Porirua Other Titles - Paripari Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 mm.

Date: 1842 - 1847

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

Reference: A-259-042

Description: Shows views in the Wellington area. Other Titles - Porirua Paripari Quantity: 3 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261 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.

Reference: B-049-047/049

Description: Views of Wellington between 1842 and 1845. The top view shows the house of William Wakefield (the site of the Beehive) looking up The Terrace beyond. The central view is of Captain Daniell's sawmill on the Kaiwharawhara stream. A bullock cart is carrying logs to the right, several men are resting in the foreground, there are piles of tree trunks in the foreground, and tall bush in the background. The lowest view shows the bank on the corner of Willis Street and Manners Street with soldiers marching by, from the barracks next door to the bank. Other Titles - Kaiwharawhara Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 365 x 261

Date: 1851

From: British Library. Department of Manuscripts :Drawings and sketches illustrative of New Zealand. 1849-1850s. [Additional Manuscript 19954. File prints].

By: McCleverty, William Anson, 1806-1897

Reference: E-144-046-2

Description: Looking down Molesworth Street to Wellington Harbour, with Government House and its flagpole and sentry box on the right. Three Maori stand in the road with a dog. A fourth man is seated by the roadside. The cliff above Lambton Quay is in the right background. Several shops in the harbour. A building, probably Barrett's Hotel is at the foot of the road, by the harbour. Part of another building is on the left, with three European men seated in the shade outside Other Titles - Government Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W M 1851 Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: Photograph of watercolour, original 8.4 x 12.6 inches

Date: 1868 - 1870

By: Abraham, Caroline Harriet, 1809?-1877

Reference: A-329-009

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour, probably from the position of the Bolton Street Cemetery. There are several dwellings in the foreground, a flagpole on the foreshore at the left, near a wharf which juts out into the harbour. The flagpole probably marks the site of Government House. On the foreshore at centre right, is a building with a square turret, with a pointed roof, probably on Lambton Quay The house roof in the left near section adjacent to bushes and trees may be those of the house of Robert Park. His house was adjacent to and below the Bolton Street Cemetery Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - [Title]; (On edge of frame now discarded) - suggested date of around 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm. Provenance: Previously owned by Mr Handley Thomson, Silverstream.

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?