Image: Mount Albert Ōwairaka 1845

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Description: Mount Albert Ōwairaka watercolour painted by John Guise Mitford in 1845. Two large flax bushes / harakeke in the left foreground. A fenced road leading from the right into the centre of the picture, with several houses to its right and two travellers on the road. In the distance are the ridged outlines formed by Māori excavations for pā on the volcanic cone of Mt Albert Ōwairaka, with other hills in the background. It has no houses on or around it.
Title: Mount Albert Ōwairaka 1845
Credit: Original publication: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull Library from Sotheby's, London, 20 June 1974. Immediate source: https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.89091
Author: John Guise Mitford (Life time: 1822 – 1854)
Usage Terms: Public domain in the United States
License: Public domain
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Mount Albert (New Zealand)

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