Date: 1887
Place: Manapouri
Media: pencil and watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 304 × 538 mm
Catalogue number: 2023–1–35
Credit line: The Field Collection, Toi Mahara
Takitimo [sic] Mountains, Manipori [sic] Station was one of a group of paintings that John Gully painted on his last trip with James Crowe Richmond to the Southern Lakes in February and March 1887. After arriving in Christchurch by boat, the two men would have taken the train to Fairlie, then over Burke’s Pass by coach. From there, over the Lindis Pass, and on to lakes Wakatipu, Wanaka, Te Anau and Manapouri.
Gully gave one of these works, L. Manipori from slopes of the Takitimo Mountains 1887, to William Mathew Hodgkins. Hodgkins may have purchased this painting on the same occasion. Hodgkins owned at least five paintings by Gully which were offered for sale after his death in 1889. (Sourced from notes by Avenal McKinnon, Frances Hodgkins, the link with Kapiti: The Field Collection, Mahara Gallery, 2000).
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