Port Cooper from sea, 2 miles & 1/2 S.W. by S.

Alternative Title

Port Victoria. (Canterbury) January 1850.

Date Created

1850

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - A786
a3694

Subject

Description

Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Port Cooper from sea, 2 miles & 1/2 S.W. by S.; verso in ink: 38; on sketchbook mount: Port Victoria. (Canterbury) January 1850; 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.

Extent

145 x 223 mm

Medium

watercolour on paper

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

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

Files

a3694.jpg

Citation

Fox, William, 1812-1893, “Port Cooper from sea, 2 miles & 1/2 S.W. by S.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5294.