IMAGE
Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :[Cabbage trees growing in a swamp with a settlement in the background and a man on a white horse in the foreground. ca 1880]
- Date
- 1870 - 1890
- By
- Backhouse, John Philemon, 1845-1908
- Reference
- E-052-q-015
- Description
Shows Mount Eden. The Cabbage Tree Swamp was on the site of present-day Eden Park.
Image published as a greetings card by the Library in the 1970s
The view may be of Mount Albert (Auckland), rather than Mount Eden. The image features in Scott, Dick. Old Mount Albert (1963) as showing Mount Albert
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook
Provenance: Previously part of Alexander Turnbull's collection. The inside of the cover bears his bookplate and the luxurious binding is of the type he arranged.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880] / Backhouse, John Philemon 1845-1908 :Australasian views [New Zealand scenes] [ca 1880]
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolour and Chinese white on paper 137 x 183 mm mounted into sketchbook
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