IMAGE
[Brees, Samuel Charles] 1810-1865 :View of Port Nicholson from the range of hills west of the Ohiro Valley [ca 1844]
- Date
- 1842 - 1845
- By
- Brees, Samuel Charles, 1810?-1865; Webb, Esther M, active 1938-1957
- Reference
- C-126-002
- Description
View looking north-east along Wellington's south coast from above Ohiro Bay, past Island Bay and towards the Harbour entrance. In the foreground, amongst bush and low scrub is a party of six European men, two leading on horseback, one with two dogs. Brees is probably depicting himself and his group of surveyors
Original of no 45 (with the same title) in Brees' "Pictorial Illustrations of New Zealand". The engraved version has a single man with a dog in a different position in the foreground, and a flock of sheep.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title faintly inscribed in capitals in brown watercolour: View of Port Nicholson [fr]om the range of hills west of the Ohiro Valley. The first two letters of 'from' have been trimmed off
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 241 x 508 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 241 x 508 mm
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