Places

Date: 1940 - 1839

From: New Zealand. Internal Affairs Department :Making New Zealand; pictorial surveys of a century. Wellington, Department of Internal Affairs, 1940.

By: Taylor, Richard (Rev), 1805-1873

Reference: PUBL-0098-01-05-15

Description: Shows two Maori seated on the ground by a curved road outside the Te Papa Mission Station in Tauranga. Alternative title was the title of the original sketch by Rev Richard Taylor, held at the Auckland Institute and Museum (Sketchbook PS 2) (ATL copy negative 1/2-C-013113) Other Titles - The Rev. A N Brown's raupo house at Papa mission, March 1839 Extended Title - From "Making New Zealand", New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs, 1940. Volume 1, no 5, page 15. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print.

Date: 1839

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

Reference: C-025-020

Description: Shows G. F. Russell's house and timber yard at Kohukohu, Hokianga Harbour, with a ship and a barque, the Francis Spaight (nearer vessel) and the Bolina (on the left) loading kauri spars; and a row-boat hauling spars. On the hill behind is dense native forest. For many years, this watercolour was thought to show Horeke with Lieutenant Thomas McDonnell's house. However Maureen Lander's "Turnbull Library Record" article cited below proves that the image is of Kohukohu and of G. F. Russell's house. See Turnbull Library Record vol.22. no.1, May 1989, p.33-40 for an article by Maureen Lander establishing that this view is of Kohukohu and is accurate in its details. The view dates from a trip Heaphy made with other New Zealand Company employees in December 1839, looking for appropriate areas to establish cities. The New Zealand Company's vessel the "Tory", with the artist on board, was in the Hokianga Harbour between 2 and 16 December. See also the article by Brian Byrne in "Turnbull Library record" 1997, pages 73-76, identifying the "Francis Spaight" and the "Bolina", with evidence. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited: Early watercolours of New Zealand, Auckland City Art Gallery, September 1963. Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art, Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February to 22 April 1990; Treasures in Trust, National Library Gallery, 17 August to 2 November 1995 and Auckland City Art Gallery, 11 November 1996 to 9 February 1997. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Kohukohu, Northland Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title & signature Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 308 x 429 mm (image), 327 x 450 mm (ruled line) on sheet 409 x 516 mm Dimensions: painted surface, surrounded by a single ruled ink line is 308 x 429 mm; outside the painted surface is a space, including the artist's signature lower right, then a double ruled line at 327 x 450 mm; the whole sheet, including the artist's handwritten title below measures 409 x 516 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, as part of the New Zealand Company papers, London. Item number 16 in the New Zealand Company's list of paintings and drawings received

Date: 1839

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-0011-02-2

Description: Te Puni standing, with full facial moko, clad in a dogskin cloak and holding a taiaha in his right hand. Behind him is Wellington Harbour with two Maori by the shore to the left, and Petone Pa, a canoe and a flagpole with the New Zealand Company flag on the right. The western Hutt hills are in the background. Accompanying text reads: These two chiefs sold the site of the present Wellington Settlement to Colonel Wakefield, the Principal Agent of the New Zealand Company, in September 1839... Epuni is the uncle of Warepori. Under the same unfavourable circumstances as his nephew, he has nobly deserved the name of "a true gentleman." He still lives at the village of Pitone, loved and respected by the English inhabitants of all ranks. These portraits were drawn at the time of the purchase in 1839... the village of Pitone and the flag-staff at the foot of which Colonel Wakefield took formal possession, appear in the back-ground. Other Titles - Te Puni Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 247 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-347

Description: Looking along the beach with several low thatched huts and a canoe pulled up on the beach, bush on the hills behind. Two Maori men are seated in the foreground, and other men and women are also present. A toetoe is in flower to the right of the nearest dwelling Similar to, but reversed from Sainson's lithograph 'Village a l'anse de l'Astrolabe'. Possibly based on a drawing looking in the opposite direction Other Titles - Houses of Astrolabe Bay [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 94 x 115 mm

Date: 1839

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

Reference: A-146-004

Description: Shows a canoe with sails on the water, and a pa (likely to be Haera Hau Pa) perched on a cliff promontory overlooking the river. There are canoes drawn up on the narrow beach under the cliff and low scrub and a path rising up the cliff face. The view is from the right bank looking southeast across the river mouth and inland, with the pa on the cliff above the left bank Heaphy visited Patea Pa (and Waimate Pa), Taranaki, in 1839 on a journey with Robert Park. A sketchbook recording the trip is in Auckland Museum Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Chas Heaphy / Portfolio D; Recto - top centre - (In red ink): No 18 Watercolour similar to this sketch is at the Hocken, Library Reference Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 Williams, E.A. (Edward Arthur), ca. 1824-1898 Patea, 1839, 95/89. https://hakena.otago.ac.nz/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/COLLECTIONS/WEB_COLL_DET_REP/SISN 444?sessionsearch accessed 28 November 2022. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil sketch 228 x 305 mm Provenance: New Zealand Company collection. Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, London, 1915. Processing information: Pa site identified as Haera Hau Pa, following researcher information in November 2022. Hocken Library has watercolour of this sketch identified as Haera Hau Pa. See also "Ealry Māori", 'Patea Historical Society', https://www.pateahistoricalsociety.org.nz/early-maori.html, accessed 28 November 2022 - for a description of the Pa.

Date: 1830 - 1839

By: Williams, Henry, 1792-1867; Williams, Nigel, 1901-1980

Reference: A-161-008

Description: Shows the foreshore at Paihia with three canoes at the water's edge, and the houses, huts and gardens of the Church Missionary Society station back from the beach. A flag, probably the Union Jack, is flying from one of the hills behind the houses. Published as a wood engraving in the Church Missionary quarterly papers, no. 79, Michaelmas, 1835, frontispiece, with title Mission station, Paihia, New Zealand.. Inscriptions: On former paper and linen backing, removed and stored with the drawing: In ink, top centre visible through linen 'Paihia'. On linen, in another hand, in pencil 'Henry'. 'Paihia' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 195 x 325 mm.

Date: 1839 - 1851

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870; Bett, Francis Arnot Blackader, 1873-1957

Reference: A-189-023

Description: The Tory in full sail, sailing through Tory Channel, with a Maori canoe with two sails behind it, a smaller canoe with masts in front. Seabirds on rocks in the foreground, a flax bush and manuka on a headland to the right and a rocky island in the middle distance with the hills of Queen Charlotte Sound in the background A copy of Charles Heaphy's ink sketch 'Tory Channel, Queen Charlotte's Sound, 1839' in the Fildes Collection, Victoria University of Wellington, measuring 182 x 269 mm (irregular edge 270 mm across the top) Other Titles - Swainson, George Frederick, 1829-1870 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in pencil; also bottom right, C. Heaphy [enclosed in a cartouche] and below that G. F. Swainson March 1851. [i.e. copy of a Heaphy drawing by Swainson] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Crayon and watercolour, 242 x 300 mm

Date: 1839

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879; New Zealand Company; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: A-145-007

Description: Shows a Maori canoe with carved prow, containing 2 figures, one Maori, one European, and a dog, alongside a raft or mokihi being paddled by a young Maori man in the foreground. Both craft negotiate river rapids. In right foreground a fallen tree trunk is a perch for a few birds, and in the background cabbage trees stand in front of denser bush. The scene is thought to be close to modern Canvastown The rapids, or low waterfall on the Pelorus River, were close to modern Canvastown Listed by the New Zealand Company as received in London by the Company [before 1842], item no. 5 E J Wakefield wrote about travelling with his uncle William Wakefield up the Pelorus River between 6 and 16 September 1839 and mentioned that the paddler on the mokihi or raft was a 12-year-old boy. perched in the centre of a raft made of two bundles of raupo tied with flax. (Adventure in New Zealand, 1845, page 63). Heaphy remained with the Tory, in Tory Channel Other Titles - Wakefield, Edward Jerningham Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - No. 5; Verso - top centre - No. 1 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 364 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull, with other New Zealand Company material, Francis Edwards, London, 1914.

Date: 1842 - 1839 - 1843

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Saunders, Trelawny, active 1840-1855; Hullmandel & Walton (Firm); Beauchamp family

Reference: C-029-006-b

Description: An aerial view of the harbour and site of the town of Wellington from south of Wellington Heads, looking down onto Miramar Peninsula in the left centre foreground with Burnham Lake, the site of Wellington City to the left, Pencarrow Head at right foreground, the Hutt Valley in the middle distance to the right. Includes map below image Second edition Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 360 x 697 mm. Provenance: Tinakori Gallery purchased lithograph from descendants of Katherine Mansfield's sister (possibly Vera McIntosh Bell) and brother-in-law, who were the previous (original?) owners.

Date: 1839 - 1845

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: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: PUBL-0011-01

Description: Taranaki Mount seen from the sea with the Sugar Loaf Islands to the left, and two sailing ships (one possibly intended to represent the Tory) and a Maori canoe. The associated text reads: This is generally the first land in New Zealand made by vessels from England. - Mount Egmont is nearly 9000 feet high. The Town and Settlement of New Plymouth are situated on the farther side of the Sugar Loaf Peak and Islands, which are seen at the extremes of the view. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 136 x 165 mm

Date: 1839

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

Reference: C-025-014

Description: In the foreground are five men moving a log with ropes. Beyond them is a saw-pit with prepared timber and there is further timber cut into planks in the right foreground, with two axes and a jacket. There are two millers' huts, many trunks and tree-stumps and large stands of kauri trees. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. The artist is likely to visited this timber camp between 26 and 29 December 1839 and the camp's location should be somewhere between Te Kopuru (south of Dargaville) and the confluence of the Mangakahia and Wairua Rivers, probably in the upper Wairoa, not far from Tangiteroria. It appears likely to have been a timber camp established by ex-Wesleyan Mission Society missionary William White, with a gang of Sydney sawyers, at a site known as Mangarata. See 'The unknown Kaipara' by Brian Byrne, p. 165-168 for further information. Inscriptions: Recto - Chas Heaphy. No.8 [New Zealand Company numbering at top] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 470 x 375 mm Provenance: Purchased with other New Zealand Company material in London in 1915 by Alexander Turnbull.

Date: 1839 - 1841

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

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

Reference: E-273-q-015

Description: Shows view across trees and cottage to truncated volcanic cone. Other Titles - Dr Johnston Other Titles - Maungaturoto (?) Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Dr Johnston; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink on album page, 177 x 256 mm.

Date: 1839 - 1841

From: Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Drawings and sketchs[sic]. 1830.

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

Reference: E-273-q-014

Description: Shows view across fields to truncated volcanic cone. This is similar to a view of "Poherua" shown in William Yate's "An account of New Zealand; and of the formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society's position in the northern island" (London, 1835), opposite page 132. Other Titles - Dr Johnstone Other Titles - Pouerua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Dr Johnstone; Recto - beneath image - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.. Physical Description: Ink and wash on album page, 256 x 177 mm.

Date: 1839

From: Heaphy, Charles 1820-1881 :[Notes and sketches of Maori fortifications, 1839-1863] [1] Notes relative to sketches; [2] Fighting stages Waitangi, Chatham I[slan]d. 1839; Waimate pa, 1839; Sunset Point, Auckland; Summit of Rangitoto Island, Auckland; [3] Ruapekapeka, section along red line in sheet 6 [4] Tauranga Ika Pah; [5] Earthworks at Rangiriri, Waikato, 1863; Plan of a pa, Massacre Bay, 1839; Section of a wall near a gateway; [6] [Unidentified pa, sketch signed by R. Chapman]; Rangiriri, sketch of Maori works taken the day of the capture, 1863.

By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Chapman, R, active 1863

Reference: B-043-015-2

Description: Four images on one page: Raised Maori constructions for battle at the Chatham Islands; a drawing of Waimate Pa, Taranaki, a clifftop pa at Patea (?); a cliff face on the Auckland foreshore; the crater area and remains of earlier Maori fortification on Rangitoto Island Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph of pen drawings and notes on sheet 395 x 470 mm

Date: 1839 - 1827

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Boilly, Alphonse, 1801-1867

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-387

Description: A group of a dozen Maori women digging up land for a kumara plantation. In the background is a low whare with a rounded roof and two futher Maori talk to French sailors. In the left foreground is a storage platform holding kete, possibly filled with kumara. Sainson was in New Zealand with Dumont d'Urville in 1827. He would have observed a scene like this in the Far North District, probably in the Bay of Islands. The French word 'patate' normally refers to the sweet potato or kumara in New Zealand. Dumont d'Urville describes Maori as cultivating 'pommes de terre [potatoes], patates [sweet potatoes] et taro'. Other Titles - Clearing or digging up a potato (kumara) field Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving,

Date: 1839 - 1840

By: New Zealand Company; Cobham, Samuel, 1799-1881

Reference: MapColl-832.4796a/1839/Acc.15648

Description: Plan of the proposed city of Wellington that was to be located near the mouth of the Hutt River and Petone, Lower Hutt City. The area covers 1361 acres, exclusive of streets and terraces, with 261 acres for government purposes, squares, public buildings, hospitals, schools, markets, wharves, and 1100 acres for settlers for building purposes. The town is laid out in a grid pattern, with the Hutt River running through the centre, and a terrace around the periphery. Several blocks on the plan are allocated for specific purposes, such as government offices, prison, public baths, museum, barracks, president's palace, college of surgeons. Four cemeteries are proposed on the corners of the plan, each of eight acres. Note on mount reads: This proposal was for the establishment of Wellington on the banks of the Hutt River. See also associated lettered at AT 3/1/6, regarding Cobham and the map. This edition is a photocopy from a specially drawn copy, held formally in Government House, Wellington. Catalogue card states a copy is held in strongroom, Parliamentary library. Note on map says the town is to be surrounded by 1100 farms of 100 acres each. Note on map before copying states each blank square is 8 acres. Note on map before copying: Designed by Samuel Cobham, Newgate Street, where plans may be had. Note on map before copying: W Lake, lith, 50, Old Bailey, London. See also second and third photographic copies of lithograph of this map, filed at MapColl-832.4796a/1839/Acc.15647 and Acc.1269. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Photocopy, coloured, mounted, 39.3 x 50 cm.

Date: 1839 - 1845

By: Park, Robert, 1812-1870; Pearse, John, 1808-1882

Reference: NON-ATL-P-0004

Description: Palisades of the pa at Kaiwharawhara, at the water's edge, with raupo houses, with verandahs and tree-trunk columns in the foreground, with one Maori man reclining in the left foreground and a woman and child seated by one of the whare. Two canoes, with Maori chapel of raupo beyond them in the middle ground and a European yacht beyond that. On the background hill to the right, the whalers' lookout "Tutaewera", aand on the central hill, a zig-zag Maori path running up the Ngaio Gorge area. The background range shows British Peak on the left and Mount Kaukau on the right. The file print during 1970s and 80s attributed to John Pearse and titled "Wellington". However, it pre-dates Pearse's time in Wellington during the 1850s. Other Titles - Wellington. John Pearse. See article about this picture in Kapa-Mana News 20 August 1980, by William Secker. The painting is pre-1845, since the Hutt Road is not yet formed. The architecture of the raupo huts on the left shows the whalers' influence, with the tree-trunk verandah posts. If the attribution to Robert Park is correct, the work could be as early as 1840. Quantity: 1 photograph(s). Physical Description: [Photograph of] watercolour, size unknown

Date: 1839

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: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: PUBL-0011-03

Description: A clearing amidst the elevated trunks of kauri. Sawn trunks and a hut in the background with another hut in the middle ground and five men with a lever and rope hauling an enormous trunk in the foreground. A pile of sawn logs is in the right foreground with a jacket and two axes resting against it. A saw and saw-horse are on the left, behind the men. The accompanying text reads: These trees are renowned for their excellent qualities as spars for ships; and the British navy has beeen supplied with several cargoes for this purpose. They frequently grow to the height of ninetey feet between the ground and the lowest branches. This tree is not found farther south than the Bay of Plenty or Waikato. A close copy of Charles Heaphy's watercolour Kauri Forest, Wairoa River, Kaipara, 1839 (C-025-014), Drawings and Prints Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library. The only major change is that the steep background cleared area in the watercolour has been flattened in the lithograph. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 311 x 248 mm

Date: 1839 - 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: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881

Reference: PUBL-0011-04-2

Description: A full length portrait of Hiko in a fringed flax cloak, seated on the stern of a canoe at the water's edge, a mere in his right hand. The accompanying text reads: Hiko the son of Te Pehi Kupe (or Tupai Cupa, as he was formerly called when he visited England in 1826). Hiko is the highest chief in Cook's Strait, by descent. But the intrigues of Rauperaha have almost annihilated his influence. He is of mild and affable demeanour, and dignified bearing; but no trust can be placed in his word, he speaks almost always ironically, and tells direct falsehoods without shame. He is sitting on the carved stern of a war canoe. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, hand-coloured 245 x 172 mm on sheet 350 x 544 mm

Date: 1839 - 1769

From: Dumont d'Urville, Jean Sebastien Cesar, 1790-1842 :Voyage pittoresque autour du monde et resume generale des descouvertes. Paris, Furne et Cie, 1839.

By: Sainson, Louis Auguste de, 1800-; Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: PUBL-0034-2-366

Description: A large war canoe, with many men rowing, several standing. A European vessel is in the background to the left, behind the canoe and a headland is also visible. Derived from Sydney Parkinson's engraving, from Cook's first voyage to New Zealand in 1769, of 'War canoe of New Zealand, with a view of Gable End Foreland' from An Account of the voyages ... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere ... By John Hawkesworth. (London, 1773), vol 3, Pl. 16, opp. p. 463. Parkinson's engraving lacks the European vessel. Other Titles - War canoe of New Zealand Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 117 x 200 mm