View of Auckland New Zealand from the crater of Mount Eden. Plate 2.

Alternative Title

View of Auckland New Zealand from the crater of Mount Eden. Plate 2. Drawn from nature by F.R. Stack, Esq.re, late Major of Brigade. Auckland. Day & Son lith.rs to the Queen. London, Published by Day & Son. [1862].

Date Created

[1862]

Date

1862

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,884
a11737

Publisher

Day & Son.

Description

Margin in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mount Eden - Maungawhau - called after Lord Auckland’s family name, is about 700 feet in height & about two miles distant from the city. The crater is about 200 yards in diameter & 60 or 70 in depth. To the extreme right of the picture is the Thames estuary. There is a magnificent view of the outlying Rangitoto, Great & Little Barrier, Coromandel Peninsula & other islands with the North Shore. T.M.H.; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.

Extent

197 x 407 mm

Medium

lithograph in 2 tints on paper

Temporal Coverage

Provenance

Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.

Source

Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.

Language

eng

Files

a11737.jpg

Citation

Stack, Frederick Rice, “View of Auckland New Zealand from the crater of Mount Eden. Plate 2.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed October 31, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/4641.