William Potts (1859 - 1947)

William Potts

William Potts was a New Zealand artist and lithographer.

He is known as the author of illustrations for The History of New Zealand and Descriptions of its Cities and Towns.... and the Natural Wonders of New Zealand" (1889), which was edited by the noted politician Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Most impressive in this series of prints is the last color chromolithograph, which depicts on a large scale the 1886 eruption of the Taraweera volcano near Rotorua on the North Island, one of the deadliest natural disasters ever to befall New Zealand.