IMAGE
[Harris, Edwin] ca 1810-1895 :New Plymouth, New Zealand [1860]
- Date
- 1860
- By
- Harris, Edwin, 1810?-1895; Gold, Charles Emilius, 1809-1871
- Reference
- C-030-010
- Description
Shows the township seen from Marsland Hill with the harbour and Sugar Loaf Rocks in the background and St Mary's Church with the beginnings of the new additions, started in 1860, in the foreground. Also various regiments (including 40th?) and encampments near church, military hospitals, Marsland Hotel, and various other churches.
cf. Taranaki Museum's watercolour and pencil drawings of the same scene, and Hocken's col. lithographs, all signed by Edwin Harris, Harris may have copied Gold, and this painting has been attributed to Gold in the past.
See Otago Daily Times, 9 Jan 1982, p. 30 for further confirmation of attribution
The lithographic copy of this image in St Mary's Church, New Plymouth includes a key to various features. The title is New Plymouth from Marsland Hill. To the left of St Mary's, the two-storied building is Marsland Hotel and military Hospital. To the right, across the road, past the troops, the high-gabled single-storey building with a small porch by its door is the Maori Chapel. The two-storied building opposite the chapel is the Military Hospital. Further off to the right, the tallest building is the Wesleyan Chapel. The flagstaff on the hill between St Mary's and the sea marks the "sailors camp on Mt Elliott".
Inscriptions: Mount verso - 40th Regiment, Taranaki, New Plymouth, N.Z. about 1840?
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm
Provenance: George Page Cooper, Melbourne; purchased Joel's Auction, Melbourne, Nov. 1967.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Ink and watercolour 270 x 560 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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