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[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :[View of Wellington] N.Z., 1861
Date: 1861
By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926
Reference: G-670
Description: Shows ships in harbour, houses, and a man driving cows on a hillside path at right. From Brooklyn looking across Te Aro and the harbour to the Hutt Valley. At left is a Maori wood-gatherer. Tree in left foreground has the creeper kie kie growing on it. A tree has been felled in centre foreground, and there is a cabbage tree at right. Upper Willis Street runs down to Clay Point, at the junction of the present Willis Street and Lambton Quay. Thorndon Flat lies beyond ending at Pipitea Point. Colour photolithograph of this original was reproduced for "The Barraud prints" published by the Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust Board in 1967. The photolithograph was entitled: "Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861". Other Titles - Wellington from Brooklyn - across Te Aro and Thorndon, 1861 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D. Barraud / NZ. 1861. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 443 x 1370 mm Processing information: Reframed in 1986. The original frame has been retained.