Lot 60
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John Gully (1819-1888)
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John Gully (1819-1888)

The Lady Barclay entering Takaka River, near Clifton, Nelson, New Zealand

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John Gully (1819-1888)
The Lady Barclay entering Takaka River, near Clifton, Nelson, New Zealand

signed and dated 'JOHN GULLY/1872' (lower left), with title and inscription '...presented to A. Midgley at Nelson by the artist...' on a label on the backing board
watercolour
12½ x 18½in. (31.8 x 47cm.)
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Lot Essay

Gully emigrated to New Zealand in 1852 as a farmer. He moved from Taranaki to Nelson in 1860 and became drawing master at Nelson College. He was appointed draughtsman and surveyor under J.C. Richmond at the Land Survey Office of the Nelson Provincial Council and held this position from 1863 until his retirement in 1878. With Barrraud's New Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive (1877), his New Zealand Scenery, including fifteen chromolithographed plates, also published in 1877, remains one of the two best known pictorial books of New Zealand.

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