Auckland, from St George’s Bay, 1856 (above Mr Blackett’s house).
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Creator
Date Created
1856
Identifier
Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,924
a3623
Description
On sketchbook mount in pen & black ink superimposed over brown: Aukland, [sic] from St George’s Bay, 1856 (above Mr Blackett’s house) Sir Wm Fox. Point Britomart. Wynyard’s Pier & Fletcher’s Mill. Princes St. St Paul’s Church; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath me these sketches which he commenced to take from the time of his arrival in New Zealand in 1842.
Item Dimensions
239 x 342 mm
Technique
watercolour & opaque white on paper
Time Period
Provenance
Sketchbook bequeathed to Dr T.M. Hocken by Sir William Fox in 1893; Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.
Is Part Of
Fox sketchbook
Genre
Seascapes & Marines
Landscapes & Cityscapes
Collection
Citation
Fox, William, 1812-1893, “Auckland, from St George’s Bay, 1856 (above Mr Blackett’s house).,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed January 19, 2021, http://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5228.
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