IMAGE
Gordon Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924 :The Kawau looking towards Auckland. Jan[uary] 9th 1877.
- Date
- 1877
- By
- Gordon-Cumming, Constance Frederica, 1837-1924
- Reference
- D-022-010
- Description
Shows Mansion House Bay also called Bon Accord Harbour, on Kawau Island, with the Mansion House, a flagpole on the water's edge, the wharf and a paddlesteamer approaching the shore. The view is framed by pohutukawa trees which are identified in a caption in the left foreground. The coastline of Auckland is in the far distance.
The Mansion House is shown at a time before the verandah extension was built.
The work is signed at lower right by the artist, and also by Sir George Grey ("G.Grey") and Lavinia Coates, the sister of Grey's banker friend Sir James Coates.
The artist painted three views of Kawau Island while staying there in January 1877. The other two works are in Auckland Art Gallery and Te Papa. Only this view shows a steamer in the bay (Bon Accord Harbour)
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour, 400 x 590 mm (sight)
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour, 400 x 590 mm (sight), Orientation: Horizontal image
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