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Norman, Edmund 1820-1875 :Canterbury Plains,- New Zealand. / Drawn by E. Norman. Maclur...
Date: 1850 - 1855
By: Norman, Edmund, 1820-1875; Martin G. Heywood (Firm); Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor (Firm); Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Ellis, Enid Margaret, 1941-
Reference: D-001-032
Description: Shows Christchurch, Canterbury Plains, the Estuary, and Pegasus Bay from a point on the Port Hills, probably the top of the Bridle Path. View dates from about 1850-54. ATL has Avon Fine Prints facsimiles of this work, at C-061-024/024-b. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Title]; Mat recto - beneath image - (In pencil by later hand): 1850 Norman was in New Zealand in the 1840s, and then appears to have returned in 1850. He was appointed to a surveying post in Kaikoura in 1852; but before and after that he travelled around as an artist. The original drawing for this work may have been done in 1850 or at any time in the early 1850s. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Lithograph, tinted & hand-coloured, 262 x 847 mm, on sheet 325 x 890 mm. Provenance: Had previously belonged to Don and Enid Ellis of Christchurch and was the original on which the Avon Fine Prints reproduction (published 1968) was based.