Hops - Drying - New Zealand - Nelson Region
[Scrivener, Henry Ambrose] b 1842 :Nelson, N.Z. 1863.
Date: 1863
By: Scrivener, Henry Ambrose, 1842-1906
Reference: B-061-018
Description: Shows Dr Bush's windmill on "Miller's acre", the site of present-day Trafalgar St., diagonally opposite the Post Office. Also shows houses close to the windmill, the mouth of the Maitai River and an oast house on the near bank on the left Dr Bush's windmill burned down in 1867 Other Titles - New Zealand Compare a similar view by John Gully 'Mill buildings, Maitai River, Nelson, 1866' (C-096-017) Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 125 x 170 mm
Gully, John, 1819-1888 :Mill buildings, Maitai River, Nelson, 1866.
Date: 1866
By: Gully, John, 1819-1888
Reference: C-096-017
Description: Shows mill buildings and oast houses at the left, on the banks of the Maitai River, Nelson foreshore, in golden light. Dr Bush's windmill can be seen on the opposite bank of the river, along with houses The windmill, on Miller's acre, was burned down in 1867. It was located on present-day Trafalgar Street, diagonally opposite the Nelson Chief Post Office, and was for some time around 1990 the site of Miller's Acre carpark Other Titles - River landscape, New Zealand Compare a very similar view by H. A. Scrivener 'Nelson 1863' (B-061-018), which also shows the oast house, mill and river mouth. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 310 x 498 mm. Provenance: Previously sold at Dunbar Sloane's, August 1994; also at Dunbar Sloanes on 17 April 1991 under the title View of colonial Nelson and the Maitai River (lot 56), and before that in London, at Sotheby's, 24 October 1990 under the title River landscape, New Zealand. (lot 114).