IMAGE
[Barraud, Charles Decimus] 1822-1897 :Otira Gorge West Coast showing Mt Alexander, Decr. 1874
- Date
- 1874
- By
- Barraud, Charles Decimus, 1822-1897
- Reference
- B-004-022
- Description
View looking east up the Otira River towards Arthur's Pass, with the road crossing a bridge and running to the left of the river. The original for Barraud's chromolithograph of the same scene (with the addition of a Cobb & Co coach and four horses, plus a lone horseman) in New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive (London, 1877) opp. p. 40. The associated text mentions that the scene is just before the 'Zig-Zag' not long before the first of the accommodation houses on the road, where the horses were changed.
See ref. no. PUBL-0016-40 for the details of the chromolithograph
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title and date in pencil in the artist's hand
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 244 x 352 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 244 x 352 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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