Neoclassicism (Architecture)

Date: 1877

By: Toxward, Christian Julius, 1831-1891; Swan, Francis Herbert, 1885-1958

Reference: Plans-80-0763

Description: Elevation of the side and front views of the A. M. P. Society building in Wellington, showing elaborate plaster-work, including a balustrade along the roof, a pediment and metopes below that, fluted Corinthian columns between and alongside each window, lions' heads below the central window and above the main door entrance (Hunter Street), a frieze of leaves and flowers along the top of the ground floor, and heavy wooden studded doors. The building is no longer standing. Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink on linen, 730 x 1086 mm Provenance: Donation: Mrs F H Swan, Wellington, 1958

Date: 1877

By: Toxward, Christian Julius, 1831-1891

Reference: Plans-80-0707

Description: Roof plan of the A. M. P. Society building in Wellington, along with a ground floor plan, including the patterning on the floor of the central area, and a first floor plan with board room and strong room. The building, on the corner of Hunter Street and Customhouse Quay, was only two stories high and is no longer standing. Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet Quantity: 1 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink & wash on linen, 740 x 1082 mm

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm); Marriott, James Henry, 1799?-1886; Swan, George Henry, 1833-1913

Reference: A-104-033

Description: Shows front of Classical-style building with Doric columned entrance porch flanked by wings with rectangular windows in each. Men stand about outside the front railings Probably one of four such letterhead engravings commissioned (and possibly engraved) by Wellington engraver and stationer, J. H. Marriott, probably in late 1863. By 28 May 1864, the New Zealand Spectator, (P. 2f) was reporting that 'Mr J. H. Marriott ... has had photographs executed of the Odd Fellows Hall, Mechanics Institute, Supreme Court and Government Buildings which have been engraved in England and afterwards printed on letter-paper, a large assortment of which Mr Marriott has recently received ...' Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on letterhead.. Physical Description: Engraving, approx. 65 x 92 mm, on page of handwriting 206 x 262 mm

Date: 1924

From: Making New Zealand :Negatives and prints from the Making New Zealand Centennial collection

Reference: MNZ-0835-1/4-F

Description: View of the north (entrance) front of Wellington High School. Photographed in 1924 by an unknown photographer This section of Wellington High School was constructed between 1920 and 1924. The whole building complex was not completed until 1938. The architects were John Sydney Swan and William Grey Young. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Flim negative

Date: 1863 - 1864

By: Swan & Wrigglesworth (Firm); Richards, Edward Smallwood, 1834-1917; Marriott, James Henry, 1799?-1886

Reference: A-104-034

Description: Shows the front of a single-storey Classical-style building with columned entrance porch flanked by arched windows, and wings with a rectangular window in each. Men stand about outside the front railings, one at the right standing beside a horse. Probably one of four such letterhead engravings commissioned (and possibly engraved) by Wellington engraver and stationer, J. H. Marriott, probably in late 1863. By 28 May 1864, the New Zealand Spectator, (P. 2f) was reporting that 'Mr J. H. Marriott ... has had photographs executed of the Odd Fellows Hall, Mechanics Institute, Supreme Court and Government Buildings which have been engraved in England and afterwards printed on letter-paper, a large assortment of which Mr Marriott has recently received ...' The (partial) letter on which the engraving appears is signed Robert A. Strang Shows Wellington's earlier Athenaeum building, on Lambton Quay, on the seaward side. It was replaced in the 1870s with a building with a tower on the landward side of Lambton Quay, alongside Plimmer's Steps Other Titles - Athenaeum Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) on letterhead.. Physical Description: Engraving, approx. 80 x 95 mm, on page of handwriting 207 x 137 mm.

Date: 24 January 1875

From: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901: Views in Tasmania 1875-1878

By: Guérard, Eugen von, 1811-1901

Reference: E-336-f-001

Description: A small classical-style building with colonnaded portico, set amongst bush-clad hills. In the foreground is a bridge over a stream, with two people on it. The Lady Franklin Museum is still standing in a suburb of Hobart Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper, 303 x 510 mm.