Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Mr Wills sketching 'Old Play' Nov 7 (bush behind). Te Anaaraki. 11.20 a.m. [Otago, 1848]

Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant, 1820-1895 :Mr Wills sketching 'Old Play' Nov 7 (bush behind). Te Anaaraki. 11.20 a.m. [Otago, 1848]
Date
1848
Reference
E-333-030/031
Description

Two sketches on one page. The upper view shows Mantell's travelling companion Alfred Wills, looking out to sea, sketching, with another man seated further off, looking in the opposite direction. The lower view, untitled, shows schist rocks on a hill near the coast, with a distinctive large pyramid shape amongst them

The name Te Anaaraki is no longer in use. However the group of travellers was on the Otago coastline, in the Waitaki region at this date

From the sketchbook kept by Mantell during his journey down the South Island as Commissioner for the Extinguishment of Native Titles.

Quantity: 2 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Ink over pencil on sketchbook pages, image 135 x 230 mm

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Part of
Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848 / Mantell, Walter Baldock Durrant 1820-1895 :[Sketchbook, no. 2] 1848
Format
2 drawing(s), Works of art, Ink drawings, Portraits, Ink over pencil on sketchbook pages, image 135 x 230 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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