Backhouse-style Painted Shell: Ruapehu, Tongariro, Lake Taupo, NZ

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A painted shell in the manner of John Philemon Backhouse,…
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A painted shell in the manner of John Philemon Backhouse, 'Ruapehu, Tongariro, lake Taupo, New Zealand' - a view of a war canoes and a marae, oil on black-lipped oyster-pearl shell, unsigned, titled. 18 cm x 17.5 cm.

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