Dunbar Sloane, William Swainson New Zealand Historical Drawings, Wellington, 28 Sep 2023, No. of Lots: 64

Pre-purchase reports: Do you need hard facts and data before buying an artwork at auction? Our online pre-purchase report, available on all Australian and New Zealand artists listed in Australian Art Sales Digest, will give you the necessary information and help you to complete your due diligence. Read more…
Lot No. Details Hammer Price
incl. Premium
1 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Kitchen and Dining Room Hawkshead

Pencil & charcoal heightened with white, title inscribed to mount, 10 x 15.5 cm
*** ***
2 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Road to Wellington from the Hutt

Charcoal heightened with white, inscribed with title (lower right), 14.5 x 21.5 cm
*** ***
3 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Deserted Whalers Hut Browns Island Kapiti NZ

Pencil, initialled & dated 1849 (lower right), title inscribed to mount, 11 x 14.5 cm
*** ***
4 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Tararua Mountains from the Swamps of Petoni

Pencil, signed & dated Oct 1848 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 9.5 x 16 cm
*** ***
5 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Rocks of Kapiti from Browns Island

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 12 x 18 cm
*** ***
6 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Totara Grove Entrance of the Upper Hutt Valley

Pencil and charcoal, initialled & dated 1847 (lower left), inscribed with title verso, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
*** ***
7 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Upper Hutt River Above the Gorges NZd

Pencil, initialled (lower right), 10 x 15.5 cm
*** ***
8 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Tararua Mountain from the Wellington Road

Pencil, initialled (lower left), dated 30 Sep 1848 (lower right), 16 x 10 cm
*** ***
9 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Sawyers Hut Near Taita Hutt Valley

Pencil and charcoal, initialled (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 11 x 15 cm
*** ***
10 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Bushmans Hut Pakurati Hillls

Charcoal, initialled & dated 1850 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 9.9 x 13.3 cm
*** ***
11 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Willies Cottage Mungaroa River

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 16.5 x 10 cm
*** ***
12 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Round the 2nd Hutt Gorge - Birch Trees

Charcoal heightened with white, initialled & dated 1847 - 8 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 15.5 x 12 cm
*** ***
13 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Pakeratihi Bridge New Road 1849

Pencil, dated 12 Jan (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 16.5 x 10 cm
*** ***
14 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Maurie Hutt - Hawkeshead River Hutt NZd

Charcoal heightened with white, initialled & dated June 1845 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 13.5 x 9.4 cm
*** ***
15 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Barnetts Cottage - G'Black Fern Hutt Valley

Pencil & watercolour, signed & dated 1849 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 16.7 x 9.5 cm
*** ***
16 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Black Tree Fern Near The Taita Lower Hutt

Pencil, initialled & dated 1848 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 14.5 x 12 cm
*** ***
17 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

E'Puni's Pah Petoni Beach NZd

Pencil, initialled & dated 1847 (lower left), inscribed with title. to mount, 11.5 x 18 cm
*** ***
18 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Cottages at the Cora Kora Valley - Petoni Beach

Pencil, initialled (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 13.5 x 19.8 cm
*** ***
19 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Native Hut and Black Fern Lower Hutt 1848

Charcoal, inscribed with title to mount, 16 x 11.5 cm
*** ***
20 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Hutt Forest The Rata Tree

Pencil & charcoal, initialled & dated 1846 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 16.5 x 12 cm
*** ***
21 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

West Point of Browns Cove, Kapiti Island

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 12 x 18 cm
*** ***
22 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Ferns

Charcoal, initialled & dated 1848 (lower right), 17 x 12 cm
*** ***
23 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Silver Fern Upper Hutt

Pencil, signed & dated (lower right), entitled (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 19.5 x 13.5 cm
*** ***
24 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Part of Hawkeshead NZd

Pencil, initialled & dated 1846 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 10.5 x 10 cm
*** ***
25 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Hawkeshead From the Front Field River Hutt, New Zealand

Pencil, initialled & dated 1846 to mount, inscribed with title to mount, 9.5 x 11 cm
*** ***
26 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Lowry Bay from Petoni Forest

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 11.5 x 18.5 cm
*** ***
27 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Pukatia Trees, Round the First Hutt Gorge, Look' Down

Pencil, signed & dated 26 Oct 1847 (lower), inscribed with title to mount, 19 x 14 cm
*** ***
28 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Gigantic Rata Trunk (Metrosideros Robusta) Molesworth Land Hutt Forest

Pencil, initalled & dated 1847 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 16.6 x 9.8 cm
*** ***
29 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Original Cottages of the First Settlers, Petoni, Major Bakers, Mrs Butler, Captain Campbell

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 12.5 x 20.5 cm
*** ***
30 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Towa Trees, Puekatea in Front Hawkeshead

Pencil & charcoal heightened with white, inscribed with title to mount & numbered 23, 16.8 x 12 cm
*** ***
31 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Round The First Hutt Gorge - Looking Down

Pencil, signed & dated Nov1848 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 13.7 x 19 cm
*** ***
32 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Upper Hutt Road near Mungaroa Birch Forest

Pencil, signed & dated 1847 - 54 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 19 x 13.6 cm
*** ***
33 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Black Birch Trees - River Hutt above Mungaroa

Pencil, signed & dated 1 Jan 1849 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 11.3 x 17 cm
*** ***
34 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

New Road above Mungaroa

Pencil, initialled & dated 1849, inscribed with title to mount, 11.5 x 17 cm
*** ***
35 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Road Across the Mountains from Mungaroa to Pakurati NZ

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 10.3 x 16.5 cm
*** ***
36 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Wirinaki Station No 3 Totara Trees - Looking Down

Pencil, signed & dated 1847 (lower left), inscribed with title to mount, 20.5 x 12.5 cm
*** ***
37 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Remarkable Rata Tree Growing Unsupported Hawks d 1846

Pencil & charcoal, inscribed with title to mount, 14 x 8.7 cm 		*** ***
38 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

The Grove at Hawkeshead

Pencil, initialled & dated July 1846 (lower right), inscribed "Looking down from the Road on Hawkeshead Hutt NZ, inscribed with title to mount, 13.8 x 20.6 cm
*** ***
39 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Cliffs near the Pakaratiki River Upper Hutt

Pencil, dated 12 Jan 1849 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 11.3 x 17 cm
*** ***
40 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Bridge Over Pakaratiki River Upper Hutt Valley January 1849

Pencil, dated 12 Jan 1849, inscribed with title to mount, 10 x 16 cm
*** ***
41 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Valley of Mungaroa

Pencil, inscribed with title to mount, 13.5 x 19 cm 		*** ***
42 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Se Course of the Hutt above Mungaroa Jan 1849

Pencil, incribed "SE Course of River" (lower centre), inscribed with title to mount, 11.2 x 17 cm
*** ***
43 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Black Tree Fern (Cyathia medullaris) River Hutt

Pencil, initialled & dated 1845 (lower right), inscribed with title to mount, 16.2 x 12.7 cm
*** ***
44 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Young Rata round a Totara - Pakurati Valley 1849

Pencil, inscribed "Rata & Totara Pakaratahi Forest", inscribed with title to mount, 17.4 x 11 cm
*** ***
45 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

How-How tree of the New Zealanders - about 30ft high - Hutt Forest

Pencil, inscribed "The How-how Tree of New Zealand Native Elder of the Colonists", inscribed with title to mount, 25.2 x 17.3 cm
*** ***
46 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

New Road near the Mungaroa River

Pencil, inscribed "New Road Up the Mungaroa Hill", inscribed with title to mount, 11.6 x 18.4 cm
*** ***
47 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Approach to the First Gorge Hutt Road

Charcoal heightened with white, inscribed with title to mount, 11.7 x 18.8 cm
*** ***
48 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Hawkshead as in 1846 N.Zeald (The Lace Bark Tree)

Charcoal, inscribed with title to mount, 12.2 x 9.7 cm
*** ***
49 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Road Through the Hutt Forest

Charcoal, inscribed with title verso, 14.5 x 9.6 cm
*** ***
50 Click here to view image Swainson, William John

Maie Pines Mungaroa Road - Upper Hutt N.Zd

Pencil, signed & dated 1850 (lower right), inscribed with title (lower centre), inscribed verso"Mayi Pines Near Mungaroa Upper Hutt W Swainson Oct 15 1859 fin'd 1854", 27.8 x 21.5 cm
*** ***
.