IMAGE
Urquhart, G, fl 1860 :Te Karaka Ghur. Auckland. G Urquhart. 1860
- Date
- 1860
- By
- Urquhart, G, active 1860
- Reference
- A-457-008-5
- Description
A large, two-storey house overlooking what is probably Karaka Bay in Auckland. An expansive, flat lawn with a path leading to the house can be seen, and the house is surrounded by bush, mature pine, cabbage trees and flax bushes
Possibly after Charles James Urquhart, 1834-1909, who lived in Taranaki and drew his house there in the 1860s (A-159-009, [My wharrie, Taranaki. ca 1860]. Urquhart was in the 65th Regiment, as was Major Murray, whose house is noted by this artist in A-457-008-2
'Ghur' or ghar is the Hindi word for a house.
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Te Karaka Ghur[?] / 1860 / Auckland / G. Urquhart
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil, Chinese white and watercolour on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]
- Format
- 1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Pencil, Chinese white and watercolour on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image, Watermark: Laid paper has watermark: 'Hodgkinson & Co. 1858'
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