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Dunedin 1862, from the zig-zag of Graham Street, between High and McLaggan Streets

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Accession Number14,309CreatorKelly, Richard Seymour, 1820-1873Date1862

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Media & Sizewatercolour & gum arabic on paper: 400 x 587mmInscriptionsl.r. in pencil: R.S. Kelly; on old mount: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The road above the quarry conceals the present road to Canongate St. Beyond is Victoria PArk, to the right of Serpentine Avenue. The solitary house on the distant hill is John Anderson’s house at Bellknowes; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei TikiDescriptionIrish-born watercolourist Richard Kelly (1820-73) moved with his Cornish wife Elizabeth Nancarrow from Sandridge, Victoria to Dunedin after gold was discovered in Otago in 1861. Showing the nascent development of the hill suburbs above the town, his view looking west toward Mornington and Belleknowes is remarkable for the botanical precision with which the vegetation is recorded. A young Cordyline australis pops its head up from by the groomed lawn in the immediate foreground, pointing to the starburst of a mature cabbage tree clinging to a cleared hillside section beyond. Punga flourishes in the treacherous gully on the near side of MacLaggan Street, and an asymmetrically placed Rata leans over the fence from its vantage point in the middle of the path as if surveying the view.

Kelly shows examples of two prevailing styles for Dunedin’s newly built houses: classical neo-Georgian with hipped corrugated iron roof, built in wood but with quoining at the edges to simulate stone, and Victorian Gothic with gable, shingles, dormer window and finial. Below, on the road a rider has stopped his horse to chat in the morning sunshine, and men and women come and go from town. A quarry opposite offers salvation from the quagmire of ‘Mud-edin’.ProvenanceDr T.M. Hocken’s Collection

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PlacesDunedinMaclaggan StreetSubjectsQuarries -- Maclaggan StreetGraham St (Dunedin, N.Z.)

CollectionŌtepoti / DunedinDr Hocken’s original collection

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