124. Charles Blomfield
Mt Tarawera in Eruption, June 10, 1886
A D Willis & W Potts Chromolithograph
35 x 52 cm
Inscribed
est. $800 - 1,200
Fetched $800
Relative Size: Mt Tarawera in Eruption, June 10, 1886
Relative size

This rare chromolithograph of the 10 June 1886 Tarawera eruption was made by A D Willis, based on a painting by Charles Blomfield. The view is from the Maori village of Waitangi on the northern shores of Lake Tarawera, where there was only a single death. Blomfield did not see the eruption, and reconstructed the dramatic scene from what he had been told.

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