IMAGE
Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1915 :[Gold miner in the Coromandel. ca 1865]
- Date
- 1860 - 1870
- By
- Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913
- Reference
- C-173-006
- Description
Shows a miner in a blue coat, beige trousers and banded hat, crossing a river using a fallen log. He carries his pick across his shoulder. Two huts, one with its chimney smoking, sit nestled on the other side of the river in the surrounding dense bush. Tree ferns, toe toe, harakeke and cabbage trees can be seen, amongst other types. A tree in the foreground on the left has a Northern Rata, which winds around the trunk of its host
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - J C Hoyte [in brushpoint; date obsured by matt]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour on artist's paper, 325 x 512 mm (sight)
Provenance: Prior to auction, sold at International Art Centre, Auckland, 26 April 1995; then held in a private collection, Canterbury
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour on artist's paper, 325 x 512 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image
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