Settlers Home, North Island, New Zealand, William Schmidt, Artist, 1901
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572/13002
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Settlers Home, North Island, New Zealand, William Schmidt, Artist, 190. Art Print by William Schmidt. Supplement to the Christmas Number of the New Zealand graphic., December 18, 1901.
.Shows a dairy farm and outbuildings on rolling country, with stands of native bush in the foreground and middle distance. In the lower left foreground clematis and rata are in flower beside a nikau palm. A stream flows across the foreground from a waterfall at the right where a man fishes with a rod. A group of Maori on horseback pause on the bank of the stream. A little further off, stockmen on horseback drive a herd of cattle, and cattle and sheep graze further off in front of the homestead. The roofs of the outbuildings are of red corrugated iron. Tree ferns, rata and nikau are scattered through the bush. In the right distance Mt Taranaki is visible.
From the collection of H.W. Fisher, who donated other items from Hawaii and the south seas.
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North Island, New Zealand, Brett Printing Company, New Zealand
