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Date: 1877 - 1875

From: Barraud, Charles Decimus 1822-1897 :New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive. The illustrations by C. D. Barraud. Edited by W. T. L. Travers. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877

By: Picken, T (Mr), active 1870s

Reference: PUBL-0016-40

Description: View looking east into the gorge, with the Otira River, the road to the left, with four horses pulling a Cobb & Co coach, alone horseman further up the road. Rata forests on both sides and mountains in the background. According to the accompanying text, the view is taken just below the well-known zig-zag and just before the house of accommodation where the coach changes horses. The Library holds the watercolour on which this chromolithograph was based at B-004-022, with title Otira Gorge, West Coast Road, from Mount Alexander, Dec 1874. Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 252 x 355 mm

Date: 1874

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: B-004-022

Description: View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed. See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm