IMAGE
Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926 :[Whakarewarewa, Rotorua]. 1889.
- Date
- 1888
- By
- Blomfield, Charles, 1848-1926
- Reference
- G-710
- Description
Shows a general view of Whakarewarewa village, probably from sketches made in 1885 and 1886. Shows an arched bridge over the foreground stream, a small hut beside the bridge and about two dozen larger huts and whare. There are numerous steaming vents in the ground.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - C Blomfield 1888
Blomfield visited and sketched in the area in 1875, 1885-1886; see notes in Dunbar Sloane auction catalogue for 29 August 2001, page 22.
Quantity: 1 oil(s).
Physical Description: Oil on canvas, 900 x 492 mm (sight)
Provenance: Previously listed with the International Art Centre, Auckland, in 1975 and 1976
This may have been one of the works mentioned in Blomfield's Pictures Sales Record Book in the Auckland Museum, where it is said that a Blomfield oil painting of Whakarewarewa sold on 12 April 1888 (measuring 12" x 36") to an Australian collector W R Wilson of Chetwynd, Melbourne; while another version was sold in London in 1888.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 oil(s), Works of art, Oil paintings, Oil on canvas, 900 x 492 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image
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