View from Tiger Hill, November 57. 1870.

Manuherikia Gorge from Tiger Hill. Mt. St. Bathans on skyline. Painting from a field sketch in 1857.

1870

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 92/1334

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T. Thomson 1870; u.r. in pencil: 2; on mount with brush: View from Tiger Hill. A souvenir of the discovery of the Manuherikia Valley and Idaburn Pass in November 1857; on mount in pencil in donor’s hand: Ridge of Dunstan Pk. St Bathans i.e. Dunstan Pk. Manuherikaia River. Hawkdun Pass. ??St Bathans. Mt Ida.

542 x 755 mm

watercolour on paper

Lennel Trust.

Given by the Hall-Jones family, Invercargill, 1992 [Given by Geoffrey Hall-Jones, John Hall-Jones & Gerard Hall-Jones, sons of the late Marjorie Hall-Jones, a granddaughter of John Turnbull Thomson].

Thomson sketchbook volume 6

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