A variant painted in 1875 was reproduced in chromolithograph in Barraud's New Zealand Graphic and Descriptive, London, 1877 ('Te Tarata Roto-Mahana'), Ellis 906). There is a smaller (30.4 x 51cm) and later variant dated 1881 in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, ('The White Terraces' 1936-0012-281)

PROVENANCE Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety (1817-1894), and thence by descent to the present owner

A set of twelve fine views of New Zealand from the collection of Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety, one of the greatest of all collectors of contemporary painting in the Antipodes in the 19th century.

Masterpieces from Dalgety's collection which were hung at Lockerly Hall, Hampshire, notably Australian and New Zealand subjects by Eugene von Guerard and William Strutt, were sold by the Dalgety family between 1970 and 2015 and now hang in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and Geelong Gallery, Victoria.

A Canadian-born merchant, financier and founder of the pastoral and agricultural company, Dalgety and Company, Frederick Dalgety arrived in Australia in 1834. His wool merchandising and financing business took off during the gold rush years in Melbourne and funded his art collecting in Victoria from the 1850s. His company was registered in London and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1884, by which time he had sold his Australian properties but remained the owner of seven stations in New Zealand on his death in 1894.

Dalgety and Company continued to thrive after its founder's death, with offices throughout Australia and New Zealand, and continued with offices in both hemispheres through the 20th and into the 21st century as Dalgety plc, and latterly as PIC, now under the parent Genus plc.