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This watercolour, done by Charles Barraud in 1870, gives a striking impression of the sense of spaciousness and isolation that many settlers felt. Lake Coleridge, in the Canterbury high country, is near the station where Lady Barker wrote of ‘solitude so intense’.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: D-022-007
by Charles Decimus Barraud
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