Landscape with settlers

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Title

Landscape with settlers

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Collection

Te Papa Collections Online

Description

New Plymouth was a planned settlement, initiated by the Plymouth Company in 1840 and later subsumed into the programme of managed colonisation promoted by the New Zealand Company. Underpinning that programme was a stream of propaganda designed to entice potential colonists. Describing the Taranaki province in 1849, Charles Hursthouse wrote that ‘a man whose life in England has been a constant weary struggle to maintain his situation, but who sees with bitterness that his children must descend...

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Image

Date created

circa 1857

Creator

Messenger Sisters

URL

https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/396604

Related subjects

Landscape paintings / Pioneers / Clearing of land / Farming / Taranaki (New Zealand) / Taranaki, Mount (New Zealand) / particle board / oil paint / paintings / Taranaki

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