Caroline Harriet Abraham (née Hudson, later Palmer; 25 May 1809 – 17 June 1877) was an English artist significant in the history of New Zealand, creating a useful record of that country in the nineteenth century.

Charles Abraham and they emigrated to New Zealand shortly after, as her husband wanted to work with George Selwyn,[3] since 1841 the Bishop there.

[5] Selwyn appointed her husband to lead the multi-level educational establishment, St John's College, which he had founded in 1843.

Abraham believed that the Māori people (then called natives of New Zealand and similar) were a proud race whose rights needed to be considered.

Together they represented a panorama of Tamaki, showing the site of St John's Chapel and school buildings in Auckland.

One of her sketchbooks is in Auckland Public Library and this records the influence on her of classically trained, but New Zealand artists like Albin Martin and John Hoyte.