NEW ZEALAND SCENERY.

Southland Times, Issue 1606, 16 July 1872, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND SCENERY.

The Argus of June 2t, in a long notice of water-color drawings by Mr W. H. Raworth, late of Christchurch, sayß : — Mr W. H. Eaworth — of whose collectioQ of water-colors we have already had occasion to briefly speak — has now placed his pictures on view at Mr Hines's, in Collins street. The collection consists of 100 carefully finished water-color drawings of the more notable places within sight of Mount Cook, round about Lake Taylor, and up and down the Waiau River. Persona who have never visited New Zealand, and who, from the hasty accounts of tourists, imagine that colony to be the bleak and inhospitable abode of savages or Scotchmen, will do well to soften their prejudices by a visit to Mr Raworth's studio. Even those folks who are 1 accustomed to fashionably rave about the glories of Switzerland and the icy magnificence of the Alpine scenery of Europe, will, if they speak honestly, confess that not even the mer de glace itself surpasses in grandeur the ice-bound moraine of Tasman or the towering purity of Mount Cook. The rolling plains, the rushing rivers, and the sunset-lighted harbors of our picturesque sister colony have all received justice at the hands of an artist who views their beauties with an eye apt to retain the impression of the picturesque to the exclusion of coarser and more sordid memories. If Mr Ra worth's sketches could be chromolithographed and circulated in the draw-ing-rooms of London, New Zealand would run some risk of an invasion by the artistic enthusiasts of Newman street. Without a hint of meretrieiousness, Mr Raworth seizes upon the prominent characteristics of the scene before him and depicts them boldly as they appear under the influence of that rare and splendid atmosphere, which only in a land of lake and mountain brings about such effects of cloud and sunshine, such luxury of light and color.