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Te Karaka Ghur. Auckland.

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Date

1860

Description

A large, two-storey house overlooking what is probably Karaka Bay in Auckland. An expansive, flat lawn with a path leading to the house can be seen, and the house is surrounded by bush, mature pine, cabbage trees and flax bushes

Possibly after Charles James Urquhart, 1834-1909, who lived in Taranaki and drew his house there in the 1860s (A-159-009, [My wharrie, Taranaki. ca 1860]. Urquhart was in the 65th Regiment, as was Major Murray, whose house is noted by this artist in A-457-008-2

'Ghur' or ghar is the Hindi word for a house.

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Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Karaka Bay, Wellington, New Zealand

Country

New Zealand