The visitor from New Zealand was a recurring figure in Nineteenth Century Visions of a ruined London.

The Original Source of the Image

''And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.''

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1840) Essay, On Ranck's ''History of the Popes".

Primary Sources and Stories

• Doré, Gustave and Blanchard Jerrold (1872) London. A Pilgrimage. London, Grant & co.
• When The New Zealander Comes by Prof. Blyde Muddersnook, P.O.Z.A.S.; From The Strand Magazine, September 1911. Illustrated by W.E. Wigfull. Published online as a resource for a fantasy role-playing game.

Modern Criticism

• Contemplating the Ruins of London: Macaulay's New Zealander and Others -- online essay by David Skilton.
• Tourists at the Ruins of London -- a second essay by David Skilton, in Cercles 17, 2007.
• Review of Robert Dingley's article "The Ruins of the Future: Macaulay’s New Zealander and the Spirit of the Age."

Pages in the Wiki

Pages in wiki that refer to the Zealander:

• Brooklyn Bridge as a Monument (1883)
• Results From Lun-Dun

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