The Pink Terraces

The Pink Terraces

Pink Terraces of Otukapuarangi, 1890, Charles Blomfield.

Charles Blomfield (1848–1926) painted the Pink Terraces four years after they were buried by the eruption of Mt Tarawera. His highly romantic paintings strove for an aesthetic ideal.

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Jessica

Posted: 15 Jun 2009

they were the eigth wonders of the world

Anonymous

Posted: 23 Jun 2008

I believe this is the oil, the original of which spent many years on the end wall of the stairs of the Cosmopolitan Club, Wanganui. Blomfield's white terraces was there also.