Places

Date: 1854

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897

Reference: C-007-002

Description: Shows a rata tree with epiphytes, beside a path which goes past on the left. There is a tree fern in the right background. The original sketch for this appears to be the work at A-029-031. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 465 x 333 mm. (sight)

Date: 1856

By: Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897; Pearse, Beatrice, -1985?

Reference: B-084-014

Description: Shows cloaked Maori figures walking on a track carved out beside a stream. In the centre foreground is a large tree fern, and rata grows from the tall tree at the right, with epiphytes. Other Titles - Bush walk, Taita Gorge. Wainuiomata Previously entitled: Bush walk, Taita Gorge Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - C.D.B. / 1856 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 342 x 252 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