IMAGE
Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 :[Pencarrow Head. ca 1843]
- Date
- 1843 - 1844
- Reference
- C-126-024
- Description
Pencil sketch is a preliminary drawing for "Pencarrow Head, Fitzroy Bay" Plate 4 (no. 11) in "Pictorial illustrations of New Zealand", London, Williams, 1847. Shows a view looking west towards Wellington Harbour Heads from Fitzroy Bay, with Pencarrow Head protruding at the right, but not topped by a lighthouse as it is in the published lithgraph.
Possibly the preliminary sketch for the watercolour, whose fileprint has the negative number 1/2-024747-F (Privately owned?)
Dated from other views of the same area.
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil sketch, on one side of sheet, 222 x 324 mm. (watercolour on other side)
Provenance: Sold by McArthur & Company, auction, in 1987, to NZ Insurance, for their boardroom. Prior to that, purchased at an English country auction, 1986 or 1987 by dealer John Barkis. (pers. comm., Brian Groshinski of McArthurs' Auction, 14. 8. 98)
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810-1865 : Cape Palliser &c [1844?]; [with sketch of Pencarrow Head ca 1843 on verso].
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Sketches, Pencil sketch, on one side of sheet, 222 x 324 mm. (watercolour on other side), Orientation: Horizontal image
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