Places

Date: 1887

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-017

Description: Three horses, saddled and with their traces dragging on the ground, stamping their feet in the snow outside a single-storied shop, Elliotts, in the broad main street of an otherwise empty gold-mining town. Other buildings in the distance and mountain-tops just visible through the heavy grey clouds in the background. Macetown was a flourishing gold-mining town in the late 1860s and early 1870s but had become a ghost town by the early 20th century. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title [in pencil in the hand of the artist]; Recto - bottom right - W. M. H. 87 [in brushpoint in the hand of the artist] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 173 x 250 mm

Date: 1863 - 1869

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-086

Description: Shows a small wooden building, displaying the sign `The Eldorado', in an isolated area in Central Otago. The building is viewed from the opposite side of the road. It has a verandah and a slab chimney A related watercolour by Hodgkins is in the Otago Settlers' Museum, 'The old Eldorado grog shanty on the Waipori Road' dated 1868 or 1869. The OSM watercolour appears to show the building at a slightly later state, with two brick chimneys, viewed from a different angle. The hotel, established by 1862, was on an isolated stretch of road between Waipori and Mahinerangi, Central Otago. It was used by goldminers heading to Gabriel's Gully and back to Dunedin. It was held up by robbers in 1863, when in the ownership of Archibald and Joan Walker. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - WMH Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 180 x 253 mm