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Government House, Auckland, showing the North Head of Waitemata Harb[ou]r.

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Date

[1842 or 1843]

Artist

Edward Ashworth (1814-1896)

Collective Title

[Various artists] :[Mrs Hobson's album. 1843-1845]

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22448259

Description

Shows a view looking across bracken, to the back of the first Government House (built 1842, burnt 1848), with the Waitemata and North Head in the background. There is a sailing ship in the right distance, and a waka with two triangular sails on the harbour. Two Maori sit in the bracken, and their is a goat grazing in the left foreground. In the right centre background is a raised storehouse (?), and there is a clump of flax in the right foreground. The hill above Devonport has a flagstaff.

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Princes Street, Aukland, New Zealand

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Category

Buildings & Architecture

TWW Comment

Old Government House which replaced this site in 1856 is some 200m away to the south east

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