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Burning the bush, Taranaki

Burning the bush, Taranaki

Burning the bush, Taranaki

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.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: E-453-f-008
Wash drawing by William Strutt

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.




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