Part of the great plain, Canterbury, NZ. Jany 9 1851.

Canterbury from the bridle path above Port Lyttelton, 1851.

1851

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Part of the great plain, Canterbury, NZ. Jany 9 1851 W Fox; l.c. left panel in pencil: Site of Lyttelton; on sketchbook mount in ink: Canterbury from the bridle path above Port Lyttelton, 1851; 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.

2 sheets of paper, each: 265 x 402mm; joined to form: 265 x 804mm

watercolour on paper

Sketchbook bequeathed to Dr T.M. Hocken by Sir William Fox in 1893; Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.

Fox sketchbook

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