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C1845
Plain of Ruamahanga, Opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington. This View Represents about Sixty Miles of the Plain from North South.
Artist:
Samuel Charles Brees (1810 - 1865)
Very rare and important early colonial panorama of the Wairarapa Plain. Wairarapa Lake is on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background. A boar hunt is underway in the foreground, with one Maori man and a dog … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Plain of Ruamahanga, Opening into Palliser Bay near Wellington. This View Represents about Sixty Miles of the Plain from North South.
Date:
C1845
Artist:
Samuel Charles Brees (1810 - 1865)
Condition:
Three panels joined, 70mm repaired tear left hand side join. Otherwise in good condition and laid onto archival linen.
Technique:
Hand coloured lithograph.
Image Size:
1440mm
x 245mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1845
Description:
Very rare and important early colonial panorama of the Wairarapa Plain.
Wairarapa Lake is on the left, Rimutaka Range and Tararua Ranges in the background. A boar hunt is underway in the foreground, with one Maori man and a dog to the right.
From Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand
Artist:
Samuel Charles Brees (1810 – 1865)
Painter, architect, engineer and entrepreneur, Brees appointed engineer and surveyor to the New Zealand Co. in 1842. He actively promoted emigration to New Zealand through talks and his own business. These are the finest steel engravings printed of New Zealand. Early and rare.
