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[Nops, John George, d 1847] :Plan of the road taken by the combined forces on their mar...
Date: 1845 - 1846
From: Balneavis, Henry Colin, 1818-1876 :[Album, 1830s-1914]
By: Nops, John George, -1847
Reference: E-952-f-109
Description: Lithograph map, showing route taken by soldiers from Waikare Inlet, via Kawakawa River River to Kawiti's Pa at Ruapekapeka Compare similar but more detailed ms. map entitled `Copy of a plan... by Mr Nops, master H M S Racehorse, assisted by Mr Groves, mid. 1846" (copied by R B 1846) showing in different ink shoreline from Paihia to south of Whangaruru Harbour. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 193 x 502 mm on sheet 263 x 525 mm
Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :Te Aro Flat from near Captain Sharpe's residence. [Lo...
Date: 1845 - 1847
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Melville, Henry, 1792-1870
Reference: A-449-012
Description: View from the top of the Terrace looking down over Te Aro Flat with Mount Victoria in the distance. Manners Street can clearly be seen in the bottom left of the picture, leading to the Wesleyan Chapel on the right-hand side of the road. Wellington Harbour can be seen on the left of the view, with ships dotted in the harbour The reference to 'Captain Sharpe' should correctly be Captain Sharp. Captain Charles Kingsford Sharp owned a house at the top of The Terrace, Wellington, where Salamanca Road joins The Terrace Extended Title - From Brees, S. C. Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand. London, 1847. Panorama plate Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, hand-coloured, 110 x 310 mm on sheet 125 x 440 mm
Swainson, William, 1789-1855 :Young palm and tree fern, Hutt Valley NZd. [ca 1849]
Date: 1845 - 1850
By: Swainson, William, 1789-1855
Reference: A-464-027
Description: Shows a cow in a bush setting, which includes a young palm and a tree fern Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WS [artist's initials, in pencil]; Backing board recto - beneath image - Young palm and tree fern, Hutt Valley NZd [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and wash on paper, 135 x 115 mm Provenance: Previously sold at Bethunes at Webb's, March 2010
Bell, Francis Dillon, 1822-1898 :[A view of his brother's grave. 1845]
Date: 1845
By: Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898
Reference: C-173-002
Description: Shows a lone gravestone with a small gated surround, high atop a hill above Nelson, with the Boulder Bank in view below. The gravestone is inscribed 'Sacred to the memory of Henry A Bell, aged 19'. Arrow (Fifeshire) Rock is set just out of view of the painting, to the lower left. Various ships and boats can be seen in the Nelson Haven area of Tasman Bay, between the Boulder Bank and the coast. One of the boats is a waka with two sails Bell's brother Henry (called by his middle name, Angelo), went to Nelson about 1841 as secretary to Arthur Wakefield. He died of typhoid within a year of arriving. Like Angelo, Francis was usually called by his middle name, Dillon Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 235 x 315 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, and surfacing at a a French provincial auction. Possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by William Fox and Charles Heaphy purchased 2006 and 2014 (Reference numbers C-025-025, C-013-007, C-173-001 and A-465-015).
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :[View of Nelson foreshore]. 1845
Date: 1845
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Bell, Francis Dillon (Sir), 1822-1898
Reference: C-173-001
Description: Shows the coastal road and hills of the Nelson foreshore, with what is now Abel Tasman National Park seen in the distance. Two Maori carry a rod between them with a line of fish hanging from it. Various houses can be seen at the road's edge, and boats of different types are in the water. One dinghy in the foreground is kept under a roofed shelter. Oxen pulling a cart can also be seen travelling the road Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C Heaphy 1845 [in faint brushpoint] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 215 x 310 mm Provenance: Previously purchased from a Parisian dealer, who acquired the work at a French provincial auction and possibly originally part of the collection of Francis Dillon Bell. Transfers: The Library owns several other works from the same provenance, by Francis Dillon Bell and Charles Heaphy, purchased 2006 and 2014, reference numbers C-025-025, C-012-007, and C-173-002.
Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Port Nicholson from the hills above Pitone in 1840. Drawn b...
Date: 1840 - 1845
By: Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Day & Haghe (Firm); Smith, Elder & Company; Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879
Reference: C-029-009-a
Description: Shows the huts of the first settlers at Petone, and the first four ships to bring settlers to Wellington, anchored between Somes Island and Petone Beach. A view from the western hills looking out towards the harbour entrance. Identifies Hutt River, Somes Island, Evans Bay and Wellington The original drawing on which this lithograph is based is at A-146-001 The ships shown are probably the first four immigrant ships to arrive in Wellington, the Aurora, the Oriental, the Duke of Roxburgh and the Bengal Merchant. The ships arrived between 22 January and 28 February 1840 Other Titles - Petone Extended Title - Published in 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' by Edward Jerningham Wakefield (London, 1845) Inscriptions: Mat recto - beneath image - Presented to the Hutt Mechanics' Institute, with E. Jerningham Wakefield's best wishes for the success of the Institution [on separate card, in E J Wakefield's hand, in ink] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted lithograph, 240 x 405 mm on sheet 355 x 510 mm Provenance: Originally a donation from E J Wakefield to Hutt Mechanics Institute, a predecessor to Lower Hutt Public Library
Letter and Mission land purchase document (ET/MS 33-34)
Date: 20 May 1845, 14 March 1844
From: Stratford, Peter : Epsom Trust collection
Reference: MS-Papers-11750-03
Description: Four-page letter discussing affairs in the North, from George Clarke to Rev J Wallis, 20 May 1845 (ET/MS 33) and Mission land purchase document (ET/MS 34). A significant document in Maori with translation, relating to the sale of land to the Wesleyan mission, 14 March 1844. Language - A significant document in Te Reo Maori relating to the sale of land to the Weslyan mission. Also with translation in English. Language - Letter in English Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0 Linear Metres.
Artist unknown :Pukekawa
Date: [ca. 1846]
Reference: A-465-021
Description: Shows bullocks pulling a cannon on wheels, with three soldiers. One soldier sits on the cannon; one drives the bullocks with a whip; the third walks behind the cannon, his rifle resting on his shoulder. In the background there are hills, and possibly a Maori pa Inscriptions: Verso - top centre - Pukekawa [in pencil] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Monochrome watercolour on paper, 123 x 190 mm
Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879 : Inward letter from Robert Torrens
Date: 7 Aug 1845
By: Wakefield, Edward Jerningham, 1820-1879
Reference: MS-Papers-11656
Description: Letter from Robert Torrens to Edward Jerningham Wakefield regarding an unnamed contact of Wakefield's in Wellington. Torrens owned land in the Hutt at this time and was looking for a person to act as his agent in the possible sale of this land. Torrens goes on to discuss the situation with the renters on his land and his view that Wellington should become the capital city of New Zealand. Torrens wished to sell his land once the price reached 2,500 English pounds. The letter was written at the Reform Club. Source of title - Supplied by Library Robert Torrens was a Royal Marine, writer and an economist with interests in state-sponsored emigration. Edward J Wakefield worked for the New Zealand Company and was interested in the colonistion of New Zealand. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Ms
[Williams, John] d 1905 :[View of Pomare's new pah at the Karetu off the Kawa Kawa Rive...
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
Artist unknown :Natives assembled to celebrate the Lord's Supper at Orona, Taupo, New Z...
Date: 1842 - 1845
By: Selwyn, George Augustus (Bishop), 1809-1878
Reference: PUBL-0180-1845-084
Description: Two ministers of religion at Lake Taupo, each standing in a small tent, with a large canoe behind them, its centre draped in a white cloth, holding the communion bread and wine. In the foreground a crowed of Maori are seated. The drawing may be the work of G. A. Selwyn, since there is an ink version of this drawing in a letter to his mother dated Wellington, Sept 13 1842 (Manuscripts and Archives Section of the Library) Extended Title - From: The ecclesiologist. Vol. 4. No. 2. March 1845, between pages 84 and 85 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, 75 x 91 mm
[Williams, John] d 1905 :Okaihou
Date: 8 May 1845
By: Williams, John, -1905?
Reference: A-079-029
Description: Scene on the banks of Lake Omapere (to the right) with a battle in progress around the outer perimeter of Puketutu Pa (centre left in the middle distance). Seated Maori and British soldiers are in the foreground, there are two groups of soliders in formation and others are lying at the crest of a rise in the middle distance, firing towards the pa. Other Titles - Okaihau Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 242 x 325 mm
Meryon, Charles 1821-1868 :Nouvelle-Zelande, Presqu'ile de Banks. Etat de la petite col...
Date: 1865 - 1845
By: Meryon, Charles, 1821-1868
Reference: B-014-005
Description: A view loking north towards the houses of Akaroa. A stream is emptying into the bay in the foreground, with toetoe to the left. Smoke is rising from a number of chimneys in the town. No. S95 in Richard S. Schneiderman's catalogue raisonne. Final state (vi/vi). Exhibited in 'A Meeting of Cultures: France and New Zealand' exhibition of early French views of New Zealand and of Katherine Mansfield manuscripts, translations into French and curios, held at Alexander Turnbull Library, 2 to 30 March 1999. Other Titles - New Zealand. Banks Peninsula. State of the little French colony at Akaroa, towards 1845 - Voyage of the Rhin [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching, 80 x 146 mm on sheet 320 x 491 mm
[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :View of Petoni from the west shore of Port Nicholson...
Date: 1842 - 1845
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957
Reference: B-031-016
Description: Two Pakeha beaching a rowboat on the shore in the foreground, watched by a Maori man, a small child and a dog. Two further Maori and a dog are walking away in the distance. The view is from the western shore of Wellington Harbour, possibly close to Kaiwharwhara, looking towards Petone in the distance. The western hills are shown covered in bush Other Titles - View of Petone Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 228 x 470 mm
[Smith, William Mein] 1799-1869 :[Exploring party in the Wairarapa. 1840s?]
Date: 1845 - 1859
By: Smith, William Mein, 1799-1869; Trapp, H H, active 1983
Reference: B-062-021
Description: Shows three figures tramping across a plain, with flax bushes and cabbage trees. In the background, the landscape is probably Waiohine Gorge with Mounts Isabelle and Holdsworth (Identified by A G Bagnall, 4/7/1983) The background landscape was identified by A G Bagnall, at the time of donation, personal communication to Curator, 4 July 1983 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour ; visible image 195 x 312 mm on sheet 310 x 430 mm
[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :View of Port Nicholson from the range of hills west ...
Date: 1842 - 1845
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957
Reference: C-126-002
Description: View looking north-east along Wellington's south coast from above Ohiro Bay, past Island Bay and towards the Harbour entrance. In the foreground, amongst bush and low scrub is a party of six European men, two leading on horseback, one with two dogs. Brees is probably depicting himself and his group of surveyors Original of no 45 (with the same title) in Brees' "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand". The engraved version has a single man with a dog in a different position in the foreground, and a flock of sheep. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title faintly inscribed in capitals in brown watercolour: View of Port Nicholson [fr]om the range of hills west of the Ohiro Valley. The first two letters of 'from' have been trimmed off Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 508 mm
The government brig, Victoria
Date: Jul 1845
From: Bambridge, William, 1819-1879 : Diaries
Reference: MS-0130-287
Description: Sketch by William Bambridge, of the government brig, Victoria, in Auckland Harbour. The sketch appears on p 287 of the diary. Quantity: 1 page. Physical Description: Sepia ink 50 x 136 mm, on sheet 203 x 157 mm
[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :Baron Alzdorf's on the Hutt, Wellington [Between 184...
Date: 1842 - 1845
By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Hipkins, Roland, 1894-1951
Reference: B-031-001
Description: Wide stretch of the Hutt river with two boats, a dog on the shore in the right foreground and Baron Alzdorf's homestead and farm with fence and tall trees in the left background Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 139 x 293 mm
[Williams, John] d 1905 :Ohaiawai, N Zealand. July (Winter). [1845]
Date: 1845
By: Williams, John, -1905?
Reference: A-079-016
Description: A Maori man in a blanket keeping watch over Ohaeawai Pa from behind a dead tree on a hill, with three other Maori seated beside him. The pa is in the middle distance, surrounded by a palisade and there is part of a farm with cleared bush and a small shed and fences closer to the watching group. Other Titles - Ohaeawai Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink and wash, 253 x 364 mm
[Coates, Isaac] 1808-1878 :Iwikau. Wauka pa Wauka. Remarkable for his piety. [1843?]
Date: 1842 - 1845
By: Coates, Isaac, 1808-1878
Reference: A-286-004
Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Iwikau, a Maori man, from Wakapuaka pa, near Nelson Iwikau's wife, Hingatu, and child are shown in another portrait in this group (A-286-005) See: Minson, Marian. Art as evidence : the enigma of the Nelson Maori portraits. In: Turnbull Library record, vo.23, no.1 May 1990, p.47-67 for further information. Iwikau is likely to have been converted by the Rev. Charles Reay of Nelson Other Titles - Iwikau. Wakapuaka. Remarkable for his piety. 1843? Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title cf almost identical portrait in Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. (Coates, I. Remarkable for his piety...). Library has file print Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 257 x 192 mm Provenance: Part of a house sale in Boston, purchased by New York dealer, then by Auckland dealer. Transfers: One of 19 portraits (A-286-1 to 19).