Bock & Cousins :New Zealand Industrial Exhibition, Wellington, 1885. Certificate of award, honourable mention to John Gully, Nelson for landscape painting in water colours 'West Coast Road looking from the Bealey'. Bock & Cousins del and chromolith, Wellington, N.Z.

Date
1885
By
Bock & Cousins Lithographers (Firm)
Reference
C-098-009
Description

Exhibition certificate with decorative border using Maori carving and weaving patterns. Within the border are 5 circular vignettes, showing First Church Dunedin, Government House Wellington, the New Zealand seal, Custom House Auckland and Victoria Bridge with the Provincial Council Chambers, Christchurch. In the bottom half framed on the left by a tree fern and flax and on the right by a nikau are the wharves and Post Office building in Wellington, the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition buildings and a Maori man and woman, with Mount Taranaki as a background. Surrounding the printed and hand-written text is a border of leaves and grasses (toetoe, hoheria and maidenhair fern) with taiahas and tekotekos (carved Maori weapons) on both sides

Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).

Physical Description: Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm

Access restrictions
Partly restricted - Curator required
Part of
[Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924] / [Various artists] :[Exhibition certificates 1865-1924]
Format
1 colour art print(s), Works of art, Chromolithographs, Chromolithograph with holograph 460 x 355 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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