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New Zealand botanical paintings

documentary heritage
  • Description

    "An artist's vision of forty native plant specimens, reproduced in full colour and supported by a leading botanist's authoritative commentaries."--back cover.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    QK463 HAR (Library of Congress Call Number)

    18358 (Cat ID)

    11412 (DBTextworks system ID)

    90233 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    New Zealand botanical paintings
  • Primary Maker

    Eric Godley (Writer of added text)

     Norman Harvey (Artist)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Whitcombe & Tombs Limited
  • Place
  • Date
    1969
  • Physical Description

    86 pages : colour illustrations ; 37 cm

  • Language
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    3 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Related Object Notes
    MS-773 Margaret M. Dunningham - Papers
    MS-1996-30 Margaret M. Dunningham - Further Papers
  • Subject Category
  • Provenance Details
    Copy 110833, Margaret M. Dunningham Collection. No. 0/N/28.
    Copy 129152 presented to Papakura Public Library by Papakura Lions' Club, Aug 1969.
  • Content
    Hounds-tongue = kowaowa -- long hard-fern = kiokio == Fraser's hard-fern -- black tree fern = mamaku -- kauri -- kauri -- pigeonwood = porokaiwhiri -- white clematis = puawananga -- toru -- rewarewa -- tutu -- New Zealand passion-flower = kohia -- Christmas tree = pohutukawa -- hinau -- whau -- lacebark = houhere -- common kowhai -- red kowhai = kowhai-ngutukaka -- New Zealand broom -- karaka -- kumarahou -- five-finger = whauwhaupaku -- neinei -- rangiora -- oru -- poroporo -- sand-convolvulus -- puriri -- mangrove = manawa -- kowharawhara -- renga lily = rengarenga -- xeronema callistemon -- cabbage tree = ti-kouka -- mountain flax = wharariki -- New Zealand flax = harakeke -- supplejack = karewao -- hooded orchid = tutukiwi -- bulrush = raupo -- tuhara -- toetoe.
  • Public Access Text

    Issued in a slipcase. Colour plates interleaved with loose blank leaves.

  • Subject Notes
    Norman Bruce Harvey is a New Zealand artist and author, known for his paintings of New Zealand natural history - native flora, birds, and general wildlife studies.
    E.J. Godley, Ph.D., M.Sc., is directory of the botany division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Christchurch.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection - Extra Outsize
    General Outsize
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
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