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John Saxton’s hand-coloured lithograph, published in Edward Jerningham Wakefield’s Adventure in New Zealand, was intended to attract settlers to New Zealand. It showed Nelson as prosperous and progressive, with comfortable houses in the distance and people in the foreground surveying, building houses and working the land.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: PUBL-0011-06-2
by John Waring Saxton
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.