A general store in goldmining town Macetown in Central Otago, open in the mid 1880s.
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Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :A winter's day at Macetown. [18]87.
Date: 1887
From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]
By: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898
Reference: E-312-q-017
Description: Three horses, saddled and with their traces dragging on the ground, stamping their feet in the snow outside a single-storied shop, Elliotts, in the broad main street of an otherwise empty gold-mining town. Other buildings in the distance and mountain-tops just visible through the heavy grey clouds in the background. Macetown was a flourishing gold-mining town in the late 1860s and early 1870s but had become a ghost town by the early 20th century. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Title [in pencil in the hand of the artist]; Recto - bottom right - W. M. H. 87 [in brushpoint in the hand of the artist] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil, ink and watercolour 173 x 250 mm