IMAGE
[Heaphy, Charles] 1820-1881 :View in the Nelson district. [1841]
- Date
- 1841 - 1842
- By
- Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918
- Reference
- C-025-004
- Description
Shows view from high vantage point, looking over flat plain towards present-day Motueka, and out to Tasman Bay. Kaiteriteri is on the left, and D'Urville Island in the right distance with French Pass visible as a gap between the island and the mainland.
New Zealand Company drawing no. 70.
This is the original drawing for the lithograph 'The level country at the south end looking north of Blind Bay' published in E. J. Wakefield's 'Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand' in 1845. The lithographer has added cows to the foreground and changed the predominant tree ferns and cabbage tree seen in this view.
Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [New Zealand Company stamp]: 23 Mar 1842; Recto - No. 70
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed)
Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Digitised from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Pen drawing 227 x 533 mm (trimmed), Orientation: Horizontal image
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