Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

Date
1879 - 1881
By
Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925
Reference
A-062-001/009
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Quantity: 9 watercolour(s).

Physical Description: Watercolours 267 x 190 mm

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Celmisia (Mt Arthur) Jan. 1879. Celmisia sessiliflor...

Date: 1879

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-004

Description: Two yellow celmisias, one on the left from Mt Arthur, Nelson, with clusters of small round flowers; the second, on the right, from Port Underwood, Marlborough, with brownish-yellow silken grass-like flowers and leaves. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title underlined in ink; also title in ink upper left, pencilled title lower right and pencilled signature lower left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 242 x 187 mm

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Senecio latifolius (Buller River, near Fern Flat, 70...

Date: 1860 - 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-007

Description: A branch of a yellow mountain daisy with a broad leaf Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title underlined in ink; also artist's initials lower right, in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 254 x 194 mm (sight)

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :[Pittosporum tenuifolium and olearia? ca 1880]

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-006

Description: A branch of the purple-red flowered pittosporum tenuifolium (kohuhu), with another plant sketched in behind it. The identity of the background plant is uncertain, although it could be an olearia. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - signature in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 214 x 165 mm (sight)

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :[Astelia solanderi. ca 1880]

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-009

Description: An astelia with a small dark red flower in racemes Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 187 mm (sight)

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Elaeocarpus dentatus (hinau). Metrosideros tomentosa...

Date: 1875 - 1885

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-005

Description: A branch of a red pohutukawa in flower in the lower half of the image; a branch of hinau with creamy-white flowers in the upper right half. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - title underlined in ink; also title underlined in ink upper left. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 224 x 162 mm (sight)

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :[Pterostylus banksii and microtis unifolia. 1860s?]

Date: 1860 - 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-002

Description: Shows three pterostylis banksii (tutukiwi or hooded orchids) and towards the upper left, one microtis unifolia or onion-leafed orchid. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 246 x 179 mm

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Mesembryanthemum australe and Adantium (Sugar Loaves...

Date: 1860 - 1861

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-001

Description: An arrangement in spray form of several flowering New Zealand plants, including horokaka or New Zealand iceplant (with the mauve daisy-like flowers), adiantum (maidenhair fern), and samolus repens, a member of the primrose genus, found from Kermadec to Auckland Islands. Other Titles - Adiantum (maidenhair fern), horokaka (disphyma australe). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 274 mm

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Celmisia longifolia (Bluff, 1881). Cyathodes acerosa...

Date: 1881

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-008

Description: A white celmisia (mountain daisy) with long petals, grouped with a branch of red-berriedmingimingi (cyathodes juniperina). Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title underlined in ink; also repeated in pencil; the same lower left Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 197 x 144 mm (sight)

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Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837?-1925 :Pleurophyllum (Adams Isl[an]d). [ca 1890]

Date: 1860 - 1900

From: Harris, Emily Cumming 1837?-1925 :New Zealand flowers in colour. Vol 4

By: Harris, Emily Cumming, 1837-1925

Reference: A-062-003

Description: A broad-leafed white daisy with a purple centre Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title underlined in ink; also artist's initials lower left, along the stem of the specimen Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 176 x 161 mm

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