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NameMount Egmont and Pouakai, from New Plymouth
ProductionJames Crowe Richmond; artist; circa 1858; New Plymouth
Classificationwatercolours, works on paper, landscapes
Materialswatercolour, gouache, graphite pencil, paper
Materials Summarywatercolour, gouache and pencil
DimensionsImage: 530mm (width), 338mm (height)
Registration Number1935-0005-57
Credit lineGift of EA Atkinson, 1935, on behalf of the artist's daughter, DK Richmond
Overview
After a long spell of stormy weather we have a south easterly wind, the mountain cuttingly clear, dazzlingly white, with sometimes a delicate and smooth veil of cloud capping his cone …
Henry Richmond, 30 June 1851
While his brother, Henry, was moved to poetic descriptions by the splendour of ‘the mountain’, James Richmond expressed himself in paint.
James felt that previous drawings of Mount Taranaki were ‘very wide of the mark’. In this watercolour, he carefully delineates the contours of the snow-capped peak and surrounding ranges.