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Painted by John Waring Saxton in 1842, about a year after Nelson city was founded, this artwork shows settlers wearing smocks. In New Zealand the British smock quickly went out of favour, and men turned to more practical cotton shirts and Crimean shirts made of grey wool.
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.