"Cleopatra" in Domain cricket ground

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"Cleopatra" in Domain cricket ground

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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

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Te Papa Collections Online

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This essay originally appeared in New Zealand Art at Te Papa (Te Papa Press, 2018). When the autochrome — the Lumière brothers’ new colour photographic process — reached New Zealand in 1907, it was eagerly adopted by those who could afford to use it. Among them was Auckland photographer Robert Walrond, whose ‘Cleopatra’ in Domain cricket ground is among a small number of superb early colour photographs in Te Papa’s collection. The combined effect of the sun and wind on the women’s costumes a...

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Date created

1914

Creator

Robert Walrond

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/538276

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Costumes / Open-air theatrical productions / women / Auckland (New Zealand) / silver / dye / starch / photographic plates / sheet glass / Autochromes / colour photographs / additive colour processes / Autochrome process / Auckland

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