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View in the valley of the Nairne Port Wakefield in the distance.

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Date

[June 1840]

Artist

Charles Heaphy (1820-1881)

Collection

Alexander Turnbull Library

Image Link

https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22816184

Description

Shows the Nairn River winding between bush-clad banks away to the harbour of Port Wakefield (Waitangi, Chatham Island). There are ships in the distance, and the whole is framed by foreground trees, including tree ferns.

Shows the area known as Maungatukarewa.

Another copy of this, approximately half-size, is held in the State Archives of Hamburg, along with a lithograph of the view. The watercolour was probably copied by Heaphy and was supplied to a group of Hamburg merchants who were interested in buying the Chatham Islands from the New Zealand Company and establishing a colony there.

Reproduced as a Turnbull Print, 1964.

Other Titles - Nairn

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Alexander Turnbull Library

Location

Waitangi, Chatham Islands, New Zealand

Country

Tags

Valleys
Rivers
Forests

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

Glossary
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