AFTER CHARLES DECIMUS BARRAUD
New Zealand/United Kingdom, 1822-1897
Five port views from New Zealand, circa 1877. Includes Whanganui River, Hokitiki River, Rotorua, Coromandel Harbour and Auckland Harbour from Freeman's Bay. Housed within a common mat and frame.
Aquatint etchings on paper with hand coloring, each 4.25" x 10.5" sight. Framed 23.5" x 36.25".
Provenance:
Pan Pacific Fine Art, Ltd., Auckland, New Zealand.
The Kelton Collection of Marine Art & Artifacts.

Notes:
Charles Barraud, working mostly in watercolors, won early recognition as an artist in New Zealand, and his paintings from 1850 onward are of considerable historical value. From his many sketches done in the field, Barraud took a selection to England that were reproduced in the portfolio "New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive", published in London in 1877. It contains a total of 74 chromolithographs, uncolored lithographs and woodcuts, with an accompanying text by W.T. L. Travers, a lawyer, politician and naturalist. These are likely from that collection.

Very good overall condition with slight toning to the paper.

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