Charles Blomfield
Artwork Detail
Painted by Charles Blomfield from the sketches made in the area four months after the Mt Tarawera eruption in June 1886, this scene depicts the steaming remains of Rotomahana. During the eruption it became the site of a vast hydrothermal blast, responsible for the thick mud that buried the surrounding countryside.
Blomfield wrote of it, “The sight was very grand and awful. What must it have been when the geysers were playing up mud and stones hundreds of feet high.” (Picturing History, 2009)
- Title
- Rotomahana after the eruption
- Artist/creator
- Charles Blomfield
- Production date
- 1887
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 535 x 685 x 50 mm
- Credit line
- Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest, purchased 2019
- Accession no
- 2019/28/1
- Other ID
- L1986/9/3 Old Accession Number
- Copyright
- No known copyright restrictions
- Department
- New Zealand Art
- Display status
- Not on display
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