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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  A2 Art
• Sale Date:
  29 May 2012 ~ 6pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  156
• Lot Description:
  Early-mid 19th Century New Zealand Artist Unknown
  View of Port Nicholson (now Wellington) from Eccleston Hill (then Golders Hill) showing first St Paul's Church, built 1844, in Government Reserve and
  watercolour
  235mm x 465mm
  inscribed with initials OP and NZ and dated 1847 (indistinct); inscribed verso; For Uncle Jim with N. Zealand Charlie’s love /The third house from the Church is one which CW occupied a part of 6 months after commencing business. / View of Port Nicholson f
• Notes:
  Reference: This work is stylistically, and in subject-matter, very similar to a watercolour held by the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, by Robert Park (refer http://timeframes.natlib.govt.nz, ref. no. A-090-007). Park was in Wellington in 1847 and the view is very much from the same view point, Eccleston Hill, behind Parliament, with Government House and the first St Paul's Church featuring.
• Estimate:
  NZ$20,000 - 25,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Art

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