Places

Date: 1845

By: Williams, John, -1905?

Reference: A-079-013

Description: A stream with three canoes in the foreground, raupo growing at the water's edge, pa buildings on the left, a bush-clad hill rising behind. In the background are other whare, a steep hill topped with a defensive pa with fences at three levels and someone on a maypole-type swing Compare the watercolour by Cyprian Bridge of which this is a copy at A-079-002 Other Titles - Kawakawa Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash and Chinese white, 253 x 367 mm

Date: 1843

By: Ashworth, Edward, 1814-1896

Reference: A-208-001

Description: Four canoes pulled up on a beach, one shown with a figurehead and with three Maori men seated in it. To the left are two small cottages, one of raupo, the other with a window, front door and bench outside, on which a man is seated. Both cottages have chimneys. Exhibited at 'The world was all before me; journals and watercolours of Edward Ashworth from the collections of Alexander Turnbull Library', Curator was Jill Trevelyan. The exhibition title is taken from Ashworth's journal where he misquotes from John Milton's poem "Paradise Lost": "The world was all before me / where to choose my place of rest". At the National Library Gallery, 27 April - 29 July 2001. Other Titles - Onehunga, Manukau Probably sketched at the beginning of Ashworth's trip up the Waikato & Waipa rivers in December 1843 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen and ink 151 x 155 mm

Date: 1843

From: [Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

By: Johnson, John (Dr), 1794-1848

Reference: E-216-f-174-2

Description: Shows the front of a small European-style hut with raupo roof supported by a series of neat pillars. The hut has one window and a front door and is on a sea-shore. A group comprising a standing figure and two seated figures is on the left and a canoe is by the water's edge in the background. Wiremu Hoete, the Maori transliteration of the baptismal name William Jowett lived at Putiki Bay (now Ostend, Waiheke Island). His house comprised 4 rooms, and he had been converted to Christianity by Robert Maunsell of the Church Missionary Society. Wiremu Hoete (or Howete) was named after the Secretary of the Church Missionary Society, William Jowett (1787-1855). See 'Mrs Hobson's album...' by Elsie Locke and Janet Paul. Auckland, 1990, p. 160 for further details. Other Titles - Whare of Wiremu Howete (William Jowett), Chief of the Ngati Paoa, Ostend, Putiki Bay, Waiheke Island Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash on embossed wove paper, 73 x 109 mm

Date: 1846

By: Bridge, Cyprian, 1807-1885

Reference: A-079-002

Description: Canoes drawn up in the right foreground, about a dozen buildings completed and several others (mostly European-style) being built, left foreground. Bush beyond the pa and raupo by the river, with cleared hills and the palisades of another pa in the background on a hilltop. Family groups are clustered around the new pa site. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title, signature and date, in ink, in the hand of the artist Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 165 x 240 mm