Places

Date: 1855-1866

By: Wainuiomata Board of Wardens

Reference: qMS-2089

Description: The schedule of owners of land in the Wainui-o-mata District include some of the earliest settlers in Wellington region; among the owners in 1854 were William Swainson, William Fitzherbert and Edward Jerningham Wakefield. The main task of the road board was to push on with the road down the valley to the sea at Orongorongo, and the progress made during the 11 years was not particularly speedy, one of the reasons being that the settlers were not satisfied with the provisions of the provincial Road Act which provided for local taxing for local improvements and vested the administration in local boards Accompanying material - Includes newspaper cutting from Dominion 1937 re the donation of the Minute Book Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Ms (37 cm; ½ brown velvet calf)

Date: 1970

From: Burnett, Robert Ian McKenzie, 1915-2002 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5492

Description: Comprises letters from Airini Woodhouse to Burnett (1) re impending visit of Princess Iris Wittgenstein and her husband, Prince Cashimir, to NZ to trace aspects of her grandfather, W B Rhodes's, life here (2) report of visit; reply from Burnett to Mrs Woodhouse; and letter from Tony Murray-Oliver to Burnett re same matter Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts with annotations

Date: 1892

By: Clere, Fitzgerald and Richmond (Firm)

Reference: Plans-80-0530

Description: Shows details of driveway, house, garden, stable and two cottages. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing

Date: 1913

From: McNab, Robert, 1864-1917 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-0047-15

Description: Letter, John H Rhodes to McNab, re first introduction of cattle to the South Island by his great-uncle, W B Rhodes in the barque `Eleanor' in Nov 1839 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1892

By: Clere, Frederick de Jersey, 1856-1952; Clere & Richmond (Firm); Swan, Francis Herbert, 1885-1958

Reference: Plans-80-0498/0500

Description: Plans showing alterations to the two-storied house in Wadestown, The Grange, built by William Barnard Rhodes. 80-498 shows ground and first floor plans, with new stairs, bathrooms and bay windows marked in red, and new drainage in blue; 80-499 shows the roof plan and an underground water tank; 80-500 shows details of balustrades, handrails, gables, windows and tanks. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet Quantity: 3 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on linen, sizes vary Provenance: Donation: Mrs F H Swan, Wellington, 1958 Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives -.

Date: 1841 - 1843

From: Illustrated London news :Clippings related to New Zealand [ca 1842-1890]

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: E-106-f-047-3

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. From water-colour by Charles Heaphy; engraver unknown. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. A watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view `Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's `View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Very similar image at copy negative 1/2-005440 Extended Title - From: Illustrated London news, Vol 2 II, p 206 [1843 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Wood engraving, 95 x 155 mm

Date: 1860

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PAColl-D-0820

Description: Montage of portraits of the members of the House of Representatives. At the top is a view of Government house and grounds, Auckland. Names of those in the photograph added to the Name Field. Almost identical as PAColl-D-0821 except for the portrait of one member which is different. James Macandrew's portrait has not been included. Similar but not identical portraits on the montage at 1/1-003163-G, PAColl-6780, PAColl-0028. Edward Jollie previously identified as Francis Jollie, but Francis Jollie was not elected until 1861. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 745 x 610 mm with linen backing

Date: 1842

From: Smith, William Mein 1799-1869 :The harbour of Port Nicholson and the town of Wellington (sketched in the middle of the year 1842). Plate IV.

By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company

Reference: B-110-058

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. There are colour transparencies available (photographed from better copies of this work, in volume of Wakefield's book). Extended Title - From Wakefield, Edward Jerningham. Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1845. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1858

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-004

Description: Shows a general view of Wellington Harbour looking north from the hills near Kelburn. Shows some remnants of native forestation. Dated by similarity to the privately owned work "Wellington from Kelburn". The "Grange" of William Barnard Rhodes (later owned by the Moorhouse family) in Wadestown is visible on the hills at the far left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 343 x 520 mm

Date: 1860

From: Wellington Club :Photographs of Te Aro and the House of Parliament Representatives

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PAColl-D-0028

Description: Montage of portraits of the members of the House of Representatives. At the top is a view of Government house and grounds, Auckland. Print made by S P Andrew from the original made by John Crombie in 1860. Names of those in the photograph added to the Name Field Edward Jollie previously identified as Francis Jollie, but Francis Jollie was not elected until 1861. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title; Recto - beneath image - Key to those in the montage; Backing board recto - bottom right - Presented to the Wellington Club by Sir Harold Beauchamp Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s). Physical Description: 51 x 40.4 cm mounted on card

Date: 1940-1942

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. Centennial Publications Branch : Historical Atlas material

Reference: MS-Papers-0230-007

Description: Various papers, much of which are copied from the Old Land Claims series - National Archives. The evidence relates to whaling and sealing operations throughout New Zealand giving details of whalers, their stations, and the Maori communities they interacted with. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Finding Aids: Detailed inventory available.

Date: 1860

By: Andrew, Stanley Polkinghorne, 1878-1964; Crombie, John Nicol, 1827-1878

Reference: PAColl-D-0821

Description: Montage of portraits of the members of the House of Representatives. At the top is a view of Government house and grounds, Auckland. Names of those in the photograph added to the Name Field. Almost the same as PAColl-D-0820 except for one portrait of one member which is different. James Macandrew's portrait has not been included. Similar but not identical portraits on the montage at 1/1-003163-G, PAColl-6780, PAColl-0028. Edward Jollie previously identified as Francis Jollie, but Francis Jollie was not elected until 1861. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: 745 x 610 mm on wooden frame

Date: 1893

From: Medley, Mary Catherine, 1835-1922 :Sketchbook no. 11. 1892-1893.

Reference: E-373-033

Description: A large lawn with a cabbage tree and possibly a yew tree and a fence in the foreground, looking from the garden of Charles Pitt Pynsent, Hobson Street, Thorndon. To the left is Wadestown hill, with The Grange, the home of W. Barnard Rhodes on the skyline and another house in a garden setting below it. The sea and Thorndon Quay can be seen, with further houses at the water's edge and telegraph poles. Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title and date Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, in sketchbook, 130 x 360 mm. Finding Aids: Shelflist/inventory available - copy with sketchbook..

Date: 1868

By: Igglesden, Charles Moore, 1832-1920; Goodman Fielder Wattie (N.Z.)

Reference: C-119-022

Description: Shows in foreground a circular island of garden with a grass border, in the centre of a circular driveway. A gardener kneels to tend plants at the left, and a dog sits keeping him company. At the right is an herbaceous border, in front of the partly obscured Wellington Terrace. Across the Terrace is a wooden house with finials, brick chimney, shingled roof, and a "To Let" sign in the window. Beyond this in the right background is Wellington Harbour and the flat area of Lower Hutt. In the centre background behind the circular garden, is the shingle roof, finial, brick chimney, and H-shaped metal chimney-pot of a neighbouring house, possibly that owned in 1878/79 (see Wise's Post Office Directory) by Joseph Nancarrow. Beyond is a pier projecting out from Lambton Quay, with Midland Point beyond. In the left background is the Boys' Grammar School (with spire) on Clifton Terrace and further north St Mary's Church, Hill Street; on the crest of the hill on the top left now the area occupied by the suburb of Wadestown, is Captain William Barnard Rhodes' house, "The Grange". Sometimes entitled: "A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley" or "Wellington from Flagstaff Hill". Previously thought to be a view from Mr Hays' residence. Sharp's residence was on the upper side of the Terrace, probably just north of the present join with Salamanca Road. According to notes compiled by B. M. Igglesden, grandson (TL 3/1/1, 1 August 1985), the gardens of the property extended from Mount Street to Everton Terrace, and when the estate was later cut up, 25 homes were built on the land, including Sir Robert Stout's home. See also notes at TL 3/1/1, 8 May 1985, or the Evening Post of 29 September 1928, for notes about the Sharp household (and other houses on the Terrace). Other Titles - Wellington from Flagstaff Hill Other Titles - A Wellington resident's house and garden, Flagstaff Hill, above Boulcott Street, looking North towards the Hutt Valley. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Igglesden - Decr. 1868 Igglesden was the nephew of Captain Sharp, and was living in Wellington at this time, being commissioned a Lieutenant in No. 1 Company Wellington Militia on 2 December 1868. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 384 x 519 mm Provenance: Sold at Philips, London, September 1984. Bought by a Melbourne dealer for £2,100. Auctioned at McArthur's, 10 May 1985, and bought by the Goodman Group.

Date: 1841

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-025-009

Description: View from Clay Point hill above the junction of modern Willis St and Lambton Quay. The beach in the foreground is lower Willis Street, while upper Willis Street passes up the rise on the far right. The beach in the background is modern Mercer and Wakefield Streets. Cows, goats, two Maori canoes, a couple on horseback and Bethune & Hunter's Stores are in the foreground, with a jetty and sailing ships in the harbour. Further jetties and public and private buildings are in the background on Te Aro Flat. The most prominent building along the waterfront, with a Grecian-style frontage, is the Exchange Building. Mounts Cook, Albert and Victoria are indicated in the skyline above their relevant peaks. For a key to the identity of individual buildings, see negative 15576 1/2. T. M. Hocken's 'Key plan of Heaphy's View of a part of the town of Wellington ... 1885'. The original for this key is in the Hocken Library Pictures Collection. This watercolour was the original for the lithograph of the same title, published in London in 1842. There were also later prints from the same stone produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. See reference number C-026-002 for copies of the lithograph. Reproduced by the Library in 1963 as one of the Queen's Prints, along with its companion view 'Thorndon Flat and part of the city of Wellington, 1841' and Heaphy's 'View of Nelson Haven', also dating from 1841. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title in pencil. This is not in Heaphy's hand. It has been taken from the title of the matching lithograph Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 442 x 620 mm on sheet 518 x 698 mm Provenance: Purchased in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull Library along with 114 other New Zealand Company drawings

Date: 1879

By: Gully, John, 1819-1888

Reference: A-178-023

Description: Sepia ink and wash drawing shows a general view of Wellington from the home of William Barnard Rhodes in Wadestown. Shows Point Jerningham and the Miramar Peninsula, and the distant Orongorongo Range. In the foreground is a roadway leading downhill, with a wooden fence beside it. There are trees in a gully in a dip to the left, and a horse standing above them on the hillside. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 226 x 337 mm.

Date: 1842

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.

By: Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869

Reference: PUBL-0011-16-3

Description: Right-hand third of full panorama from Thorndon to Te Aro. Main features named. Shows Maori group sitting near flagpole at left, smoking long pipes, other Maori figures and three thatched buildings on the foreshore. On centre foreshore is Messrs Ridgways and Co's wharf and stores. At right is Willis Street with the Southern Cross Hotel and further back the Ship Hotel. On the other side of the bay are the Customhouse Office, Post Office, Waitt's Wharf and stores, John Wade's store, the Exchange, and Rhodes's Wharf and store. Willis and Co's store is in the left background near Te Aro Pa. In the distance are Mount Albert and Mount Cook. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Aro Flat; Recto - Items named in scope and contents note are written indicatively above and below image.; Recto - bottom right - Day & Haghe, Lithrs to the Queen Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand coloured, 243 x 453 mm.

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-006

Description: Shows The Grange, home of W B Rhodes on right, view from Sir William Fox's garden, looking towards Wellington Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 232 x 335 mm

Date: 1861

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-174-004

Description: Shows an identified house on the lower Terrace above Lambton Quay, being the house belonging to the Chief Postmaster in Wellington at the time, John Farr Hoggard (1815-1871). The house was built in 1856. There are other, single-story buildings along Lambton Quay, and rowboats pulled up to the water's edge. Two Maori are on foot to the left of the foreground. The boundary of Mr Hoggard's house is fenced. The surrounding bush and hill areas are untypically brown, for Wellington. In the foreground, riding along Lambton Quay, is a carriage pulled by two horses, carrying four people; the carriage is known to have belonged to William Barnard ('Barney') Rhodes, 1807-1878, and the carriage was distinctive for its yellow wheels. Rhodes was also known for his house 'The Grange', situated in Wadestown A copied example of this painting at G-644 by Edith Richardson, the sister-in-law of John Farr Hoggard. Another copy by John (Jack) Hoggard, son of John Farr Hoggard, is privately owned. The copy titled 'Lambton Quay 1854' is incorrect; it also suggests the location is the vicinity of R Hannah and Co's boot shop Other Titles - Lambton Quay, 1860 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C D Barraud / NZ 1861 [in brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper, 325 x 430 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, 'inherited from the vendor a direct descendant of the Hoggard family. Private collection, Kapiti Coast' (catalogue)