IMAGE
Higgs, Sydney Hamlet 1884-1978 :[Pumpkin Cottage] Silverstream, Wellington [1930]
- Date
- 1930
- By
- Higgs, Sydney Hamlet, 1884-1978
- Reference
- A-090-040
- Description
View of a cottage with a high-pitched roof, surrounded by trees, three people seated on the front verandah.
Cottage of James Nairn, where Higgs and Nugent Welch often stayed. Pumpkin cottage originally belonged to James Nairn, then passed to Nugent Welch. Welch taught art to Sydney Higgs and introduced him to the Wellington Art Club; the two often stayed at Pumpkin Cottage, where Higgs began his life-long interest in painting rivers.
Title from verso, partly trimmed in mounting
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour 236 x 337 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour 236 x 337 mm
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