DESCRIPTION
Sarah Featon's pohutukawa, printed at A3 from the watercolour held by Te Papa.
Featon painted New Zealand's flowering plants in the 1880s, and forty of them became The Art Album of New Zealand Flora in 1889, the first full-colour art book published in this country. In 1919, widowed and short of money, she sold her life's work, 134 watercolours, to Te Papa's predecessor for £150.
Unframed, and it suits a plain frame and a wall that gets some light.