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The Pink Terraces

The Pink Terraces

Pink Terraces of Otukapuarangi, 1890

When Charles Blomfield painted the Pink Terraces they were already long gone. His highly romantic paintings strove for an aesthetic ideal.

Charles Blomfield, 1890
Alexander Turnbull Library
Ref: G0597
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Anonymous

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.

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