IMAGE
[Weld, Frederick Aloysius] 1823-1891 :Rangiora bush [6 December 1850?]
- Date
- 1850
- By
- Weld, Frederick Aloysius (Hon Sir), 1823-1891; Scrope, Mary Constance, 1907-1987
- Reference
- A-269-010
- Description
Shows a night-time camping scene, lit by a campfire, with members of the six-strong camping party (a woman and five men) seated around the campfire, some of them in the entrance to a tent at the left. The tent uses a flowering cabbage tree as a ridge-pole.
The scene may show John Robert Godley, Charlotte Godley (and possibly their son Arthur), as well as Charles Torlesse, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Hunter Brown and Mr Boys. In a letter to her mother, starting 13 December, Charlotte Godley describes being led on a camping trip with Weld, including camping at the edge of Rangiora Bush on 6 December 1950. She writes of their camp being 'just on the edge of thick, almost impenetrable wood, with very fine trees; and our little tent with a fire at the door, quite shaded over by the tall waving toi-toi grass, and the large one for the gentlemen a little beyond, with such a magnificent fire ... Mr Weld ... went and got me a bouquet ... it was the flower of the cabbage tree ... ' (Godley, Charlotte. Letters from early New Zealand (Christchurch, 1951), p 145.
Other Titles - Rangiora, North Canterbury
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm
Provenance: Scrope/Weld Collection.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 90 x 110 mm
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