IMAGE
Artist unknown :Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth, N.Z. 1860
- Date
- 1860
- By
- Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913
- Reference
- A-457-008-7
- Description
Shows fenced pasture in the foreground with two cows and a human figure, a cottage surrounded by bush and trees in the centre, and with Mount Taranaki and surrounding hills in the distance
The artist of this version is unknown, but compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...), possibly after George Channing Gilbert, and published as a lithograph by Vincent Brooks in Hursthouse's 1857 publication, three years before this work is dated. Compare with A-256-040 (Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth ...)
On the verso is another pencil drawing of a cottage, with trees, fenced pasture and gardens surrounding; possibly the same farmhouse from a different perspective
Extended Title - Originally published in: Hursthouse, C. New Zealand or Zelandia, the Britain of the South. London, 1857. Opposite p.209
Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Cottage of a small farmer / New Plymouth / N.Z. 1860 [in pencil]
Quantity: 1 drawing(s).
Physical Description: Pencil on laid, watermarked paper, 200 x 325 mm
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- 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, 200 x 325 mm, Orientation: Horizontal image, Watermark: Laid paper has watermark of a standing lion within an oval frame topped by a crown; possibly part of the Hodgkinson & Co. watermark
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Gilbert, George Channing, 1838-1913. Artist unknown :Cottage of a small farmer, New Plymouth, N.Z. 1860. Artist unknown :[Seven drawings featuring various colonial subjects. ca 1860]. Ref: A-457-008-7. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/31985634More information can be found in our terms of use.