Wellington Region (N.Z.) - Discovery and exploration

Date: 25 Apr-15 May 1843

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: qMS-0806

Description: Record of an exploratory journey made with Clifford, Vavasour and Whitehead to search for suitable land for settlers Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 volume(s) (41 pages on 21 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopy) (22 cm; green slip case)

Date: 25 Apr-15 May 1843 (1979)

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: MS-Papers-5799

Description: Fox describes a journey he made with Clifford, Vavasour and Whitehead from Wellington to the Wairarapa beginning 25 April 1843. He recorded the arrangement of the expedition, members accompanying the party, provisions, people met, the territory they passed through, activities en route including hunting pigs and fishing and the state, in particular, of the rivers. Accompanying material - Letter from donor/transcriber re transcription Quantity: 1 folder(s) (13 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typed transcript (photocopy)

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

Date: 1843

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Morgan, A M B (Mrs), active 1972

Reference: B-113-002

Description: Two European explorers walking up a hill in the foreground towards three other men who are gazing at the lake beyond them and the distant hills in the background. Fox explored the Wairarapa in May 1843 with Clifford, Vavasour and Whitehead with a view to initial surveying and establishing farming in the area. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title (with the lake's name misspellt) in ink in the artist's hand; Verso - second part of title and date. Compare also an almost identical watercolour by Fox in the Hocken Library, titled Lake and lower part of Wairarapa, the valley of the Wairarapa taken from the West side, 1843. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 147 x 244 mm Provenance: Purchased: Mrs A M B Morgan, 15 Upland Road, Kelburn. 10 November 1972

Date: 1844

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957

Reference: B-031-025

Description: Buildings shown are the whaling station at Te Kopi, Palliser Bay. See similar view, with title, reproduced in McArthur's auction catalogue for sale 4 August 1987, lot 52. Shows a high rock, being climbed by three Pakeha men, on the right, a cluster of several low buildings near the shore and a path through low scrub in the foreground. A Maori woman [?] is walking away from the viewer and further along the path is a European man and another person. Date of 1844 is suggested because Brees' watercolour entitled Cape Palliser is dated 1844, and this view is likely to have been taken on the same exploratory trip. There are faint map outlines in pencil on the verso. Other Titles - Whaling station, Te Kopi, Palliser Bay, 1844? Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title in brushpoint Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & gum arabic 223 x 378 mm

Date: 1842 - 1845

By: Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Jessie H, active 1935-1947

Reference: B-031-004

Description: Sea to the right, with a beach, with two women and a man on horseback. Low bushes in the centre right foreground, in the centre a Maori man in a flax cloak pointing twoards the sea and in conversation with a Pakeha man; two Maori walking away in a red and a black cloak; another man, apparently aiming a slingshot; and two other Maori figures, seated on the ground. Beyond the figures is an undulating plain, probably sandhills. In the distance are several ranks of higher hills. Identification of the location suggested by the strong similarity of the line of hills in the background to those depicted in B-031-030, which Brees has titled Mana Pokerua [i.e. Mana Island and Pukerua] Other Titles - Pokarua Mana Pukerua Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - POKARUA. MANA. [Conjectured title. Only the PO then the M are visible] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 178 x 343 mm