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Kōrero: Perceptions of the landscape

Painting of a mission station and village

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Painting of a mission station and village

About 20 years after taking his 1865 photograph, Kinder painted this watercolour of the same scene. He made the presence of God’s spirit in the New Zealand landscape more explicit, adding a rainbow which arches over the chapel and lands in a Māori village.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Auckland Art Gallery – Toi o Tāmaki

by John Kinder

Permission of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Ngā whakaahua me ngā rauemi katoa o tēnei kōrero

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Perceptions of the landscape – A Romantic landscape, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/14393/painting-of-a-mission-station-and-village (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.