IMAGE
White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950 :Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Benoni White, del. New Zealand Post Card (carte postale) issued by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist & Health Resorts. W R Bock, sc. A D Willis, Lithographer, Wanganui, NZ [1902-1905?]
- Date
- 1902 - 1905
- By
- Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932; New Zealand. Department of Tourist and Health Resorts
- Reference
- Eph-A-POSTCARDS-White-01
- Description
Postcard shows a Maori settlement on the shores of Lake Taupo, with the outlet in the foreground being the source of the Waikato River. The mountains of the Central Plateau are in the distance. A plume of smoke issues from Ngauruhoe. There is a cabbage tree at the far right, and beyond it are whare and a pataka. Flax grows in the foreground, and there are tree ferns across the water at the left.
Verso shows an engraving by W R Bock, of Mt Earnslaw, head of Lake Wakatipu, with a Maori prow carving overarching it.
Scene on recto is similar to the chromolithograph by Thomas Ryan: "Lake Taupo and Waikato River, with Tongariro and Ruapehu" (1893), published in the NZ Graphic Christmas number 1893, page 11. The Library's copy of this is at A-385-020
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Chromolithograph on postcard, 91 x 139 mm.
- Additional description
Alternative form available: Scanned from original
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- [Postcards by Benoni White and A D Willis. 1902-1905]
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Chromolithographs, Postcards, Chromolithograph on postcard, 91 x 139 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Bock, William Rose, 1847-1932. White, Benoni William Lytton, 1858-1950 :Lake Taupo, New Zealand. Benoni White, del. New Zealand Post Card (carte postale) issued by the New Zealand Government Department of Tourist & Health Resorts. W R Bock, sc. A D Willis, Lithographer, Wanganui, NZ [1902-1905?]. [Postcards by Benoni White and A D Willis. 1902-1905]. Ref: Eph-A-POSTCARDS-White-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/33753328More information can be found in our terms of use.