Artist unknown :A bush section, Otago, NZ. 1860

Artist unknown :A bush section, Otago, NZ. 1860
Date
1860
Reference
A-457-008-1
Description

Shows a house on a cleared plot of land, surrounded by bush-clad hills. The land is fenced and there are cows grazing adjacent to the house

Taken from the Vincent Brooks lithograph of 'A "bush" section on Green Island, Otago (Fox Lodge)', which appears in C.F. Hursthouse's 'New Zealand, or Zealandia, the Britain of the South' (London: Stanford, 1857), p.239. See also A-256-013: 'A bush section on Green Island, Otago (Fox Lodge)'

On the verso is another copied pencil drawing, entitled 'Valley of Misocco', showing a castle and the view into a valley looking towards Soazza, Switzerland, originally by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854)

Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - A bush section / Otago, NZ / 1860

Quantity: 1 drawing(s).

Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm

Access restrictions
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Part of
Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]
Format
1 drawing(s), Works of art, Pencil works, Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 198 x 325 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image
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