IMAGE
Packe, William d 1882 :[Huts on Mesopotamia at Samuel Butler's homestead. ca 1868]
- Date
- 1868 - 1870
- By
- Packe, William, 1840?-1882; Kinsey, Joseph James (Sir), 1852-1936
- Reference
- A-196-015
- Description
Two thatched sod huts, a man with a horse, washing strung on a line in the foreground and a sheep's carcass hanging on the left. Foothills and snow-clad mountains beyond.
Samuel Butler took up his station at Mesopotamia in 1860, leaving it in 1864, after doubling his money. William Packe, with his brother George, took up the neighbouring station Raincliff in 1868.
Attribution: originally attributed by the Library to either Butler himself or to Julius von Haast. Packe's granddaughter in England lent 24 of his watercolours for an exhibition at New Zealand House in London in 1960. Not only did they include a virtually identical view to this, but they were also monogrammed in the same way as this work, resulting in a reattribution.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - W. P. [monogram]
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 126 x 173 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 126 x 173 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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