White, Frederick John, fl 1837-1848 :[Black fern-tree, New Zealand. Raupo hut, with a Pakeha by a fire, a seated Maori and a tree fern, amidst tall tree trunks. 1848 or 1849?]

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White, Frederick John, fl 1837-1848 :[Black fern-tree, New Zealand. Raupo hut, with a Pakeha by a fire, a seated Maori and a tree fern, amidst tall tree trunks. 1848 or 1849?]

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TAPUHI

Description

Red and blue European flowers in the foreground, otherwise a scene in a clearing in a native forest, probably in the Hutt Valley. The tree fern is prominent in the centre of the view. Copied from a lithograph by William Swainson called Black fern-tree. Copied from a now lost drawing by William Swainson of a black tree-fern (mamaku). The drawing was lithographed in 1849, with the image reversed, by Cuthbert Clarke at St John's College, Auckland. For the only known surviving copy of the lithog...

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Date created

1848

Creator

Swainson, William, 1789-1855 / White, Frederick John, active 1837-1848

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/23209694

Locations

Wellington Region

Related subjects

Clarke, Cuthbert Charles, 1818-1863 / College of St. John the Evangelist (Auckland, N.Z.) / Collinson, Thomas Bernard, 1822-1902 / Camps / Fires / Forests and forestry / New Zealand / Wellington Region / Thatched buildings / Tree ferns / Whare

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