ID: 700001737 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001737	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Mount Egmont (watercolor (painting); Dorothy Kate Richmond (New Zealand painter, 1861-1935); 1929; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Welling...; 1937-0001-2)

Note: Probably the best-known and finest of Dorothy Kate Richmond’s watercolours, from any point in her career, Mount Egmont features one of the most frequently painted subjects in New Zealand landscape art. It is constructed through the simplest of means: the artist leaves much of the foreground untouched, creating a sense of space and using the white of the paper as one of the elements of her design. At the left, a bleached tree form points beyond the bush to the snow-covered mountain outlined against a clear blue sky. In this serene view, completed in the last years of her life, Richmond seems to express both an attachment to New Zealand landscape, and her delight and wonder in the natural world. (Julie King, 2009)

Titles:

Mount Egmont (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

watercolor (painting) [300078925] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1929

Creator Display:

Dorothy Kate Richmond (New Zealand painter, 1861-1935) [preferred,VP]

painter Richmond, Dorothy Kate (New Zealand painter, 1861-1935) [500166196]

Locations:

Current: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) [500311561] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1937-0001-2

Credit Line: Gift of the artist's nephews and nieces, 1937

Creation: New Zealand [1000226] Oceania (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: watercolour

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	graphite pencils [300022443]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>, pencils (drawing and writing equipment))

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: Image: 574 (Height) x 751 (Width) mm; Support: 574 (Height) x 751 (Width) mm; Frame: 830 (Height) x 1040 (Width) mm

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Mount Taranaki [1106671]
	.....(Taranaki (region (administrative division)), New Zealand (nation), Oceania (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	mountain [300008795]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), landscapes (environments), natural landscapes, landforms (terrestrial)) (AAT)

	tree [300132410]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), woody plants) (AAT)

	snow (precipitation) [300055381]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, earth sciences concepts, <weather and related phenomena>, precipitation) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Mount Egmont	........ [VP,TePapa]
	........ Te Papa online (2000-) http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ObjectDetails.aspx?oid=44207; accessed 15 August 2012
	........ Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Subject: ....... [VP,TePapa]

....................... Te Papa spreadsheet (2012)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Te Papa online (2000-) accessed 15 August 2012