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Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854 :Waikato - Provision huts. [1844]
Date: 1844
By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854
Reference: C-089-016
Description: Whangape Lake and provision huts. The lake is fringed with reeds and the palisade of a pa runs along the right of the view. Two small canoes in the water. Signed: Guise Mitford. Identified as Whangape Lake by Waikato Art Museum (TL 3/1/1, 25 Aug 1983; 3/1/1/2, 8 Sept 1983). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia ink, Chinese white and pencil, 147 x 255 mm Provenance: Bought by Dunbar Sloane from Sotheby & Co.
[Mitford, John Guise] 1822-1854 :Tarawhera Lake; Tauaroa Pah; Whareroa Pah in distance ...
Date: 1844 - 1845
By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854
Reference: C-089-014
Description: Tarawera Lake with Maori in canoes to the left, a bluff topped by Tauaroa Pa, with whare made notable by their sloping tekoteko (gable figures), with the pallisades of Whareroa Pa visible at the lakeside in the background below distant hills. Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. History of site from 'Wharekahu CMS Mission station, Maketu, The Spencers 1870-1883' by Alister Matheson in Historical review, Vol. 20 No.2 November 2002. The site shown was shortly afterwards settled by American missionary Seymour Mills Spencer, who called the site 'Galilee', called 'Kariri' by Maori. Spencer later established nearby an English-style 'model village' Te Wairoa, from which tourists left to visit the Pink and White Terraces until their destruction in June 1886 in the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Other Titles - Tarawera Lake, Tuhourangi pa Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 359 x 512 mm
[Mitford, John Guise] 1822-1854 :Mt Albert nearby Au[ckland] an extinct volcano [1845]
Date: 1845
By: Mitford, John Guise, 1822-1854
Reference: C-089-013
Description: Two large flax bushes in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Maori excavations for pa on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert, with other hills in the background. Mt Albert has no houses on or around it Exhibited in 'Two centuries of New Zealand landscape art' Exhibition at Auckland City Art Gallery, 2 February - 22 April 1990. Other Titles - Mount Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 156 x 247 mm