Tinakori Road, Wellington

The auction catalogue note for this work runs as follows:

‘Taken from the top of Hawkstone Street looking up the road towards Karori. The house in the mid to right is Levins and the villa seen above is Mr Holroyd’s; Mr Dorset’s house is higher up the range of hills. Maplestone, a well known British watercolourist, was probably commissioned by the New Zealand Company to do this work together with others of Taranaki, Nelson and Wellington, held by the Turnbull Library and published by them as very
popular prints.’