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William Strutt’s 1856 painting portrays the drama of burning New Zealand’s native bush. Men with torches are setting alight the felled understorey, while the fire is already leaping into the crowns of the trees left standing.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: E-453-f-008
by William Strutt
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