IMAGE
Lady Ranfurly's sitting room, Government House, Wellington
- Date
- [Between 1897 and 1903]
- Reference
- PA1-f-194-09
- Description
View of Lady Ranfurly's sitting room. Richly patterned wall papers and fabric form the background. Flowers are a feature. They include potted Azaleas and Cinerarias, and vases of Tulips, Freesias, Spraxias, and Jerbera. Some of the vases and plant pots fall into the contemporary category of "art pottery". There are also ebonized, rush seated "art chairs". There are carved maori boxes (waka huia) on some of the tables, and family photographs and prints of paintings around the walls and on the mantlepeice above the cast iron and tiled grate. The mantelpiece is draped with swags of fabric. Books, fabric covered and wicker arm chairs and a large oak table are also part of the furnishings. Photograph taken between 1897 and 1903 by an unknown photographer.
Inscriptions: Album page - above image - Lady Ranfurly's sitting room, Wellington
Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print 240 x 294 mm mounted on album page 272 x 359 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Ranfurly family: Collection / Photographs of Government Houses, New Zealand
- Format
- 1 b&w original photographic print(s), Photographs, Silver gelatin print 240 x 294 mm mounted on album page 272 x 359 mm
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