IMAGE
Artist unknown :[Auckland Harbour; looking down to Official Bay. ca 1850]
- Date
- 1850
- Reference
- A-050-030
- Description
Shows a view looking down to the wharf at Official Bay, with house (probably Governor Wynyard's) in the left foreground. Beside the house is a flagpole flying the Union Jack, and a cannon pointing towards the harbour. On a lower level in the centre are a group of residences near the shore. Several sailboats are sailing in the harbour, with North Head and Rangitoto Island in the distance.
The view is very similar to that in a lithograph view by Cuthbert Clarke, reproduced in Una Platts' "Lively capital; Auckland 1840-1865" (Christchurch, 1971), page 157. This lithograph is held at the British Museum (now British Library).
By the same artist as that of: A-050-031
Purchased at auction, where the title was given as: "View from Courthouse Hill towards Commercial Bay"
Other Titles - View from Courthouse Hill towards Commercial Bay
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 207 x 292 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 207 x 292 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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