IMAGE
Stevens, George Treacy, fl 1880s :Auckland. N. Z. 1885-1886. [Auckland, 1886?]
- Date
- 1885 - 1886
- By
- Stevens, George Treacy, active 1880s; Auckland evening star (Newspaper)
- Reference
- D-001-006
- Description
Bird's-eye view of central Auckland - "This view is compiled and drawn as from a point one thousand feet above and one hundred feet to the rear of the Hospital during the year 1885 and part of 1886 by George Treacy Stevens, Auckland, N. Z.". All the streets are named and every building is shown, as well as the wharves and part of the harbour. Grafton Road, the hospital and part of Auckland Domain dominate the foreground, and the view extends beyond St Mary's Bay (West Haven boat harbour) in the north-west, a block beyond Union Street in the west, to the beginning of Karangahape Road in the south-west and to Judges Bay and part of Hobson Bay in the east.
The only known detailed bird's-eye view of a nineteenth-century New Zealand city.
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Aerial views, Bird's-eye-views, Chromolithographs, Works of art, Chromolithograph, 674 x 910 mm (image) on sheet 766 x 1019 mm
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