IMAGE
Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897 :The Falls, Lake Wakatipu. April 1871.
- Date
- 1871
- By
- Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
- Reference
- A-029-051
- Description
Shows the rapids leaving the lake, at Frankton, the outlet of the Kawerau River. There is a three-storey mill building with a waterwheel attached on the water's edge at the right. In the left background, on the other side of the rapids is a group of farm buildings, belonging to the farm owned by W G Rees between 1862 and 1867.
The mill at right has been identified as Robertson and Hallenstein's Brunswick mill (see F G W Miller's "Golden days of Lake Country" (Christchurch, 1961), page 112 (ATL 993.1 MILL).
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - [Title]
Compare a similar view by William Fox, WC-327, titled by Fox 'Mr Rees' Station, Lake Wakatipu'. It has been dated by the Library 1864, when Fox is known to have visited Lake Wakatipu. The mill building is not yet present in Fox's view. Compare also a very similar view by William Mathew Hodgkins, E-016-4-027/028 [Mill at Frankton, Kawarau Falls, 1870]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 305 x 360 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 305 x 360 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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