Gorge of the Buller.

1847

Hocken Pictorial Collections - A416

a3682

Fox in region February 1846.

Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Gorge of the Buller at the entrance of … [lacuna] Martukituki River; verso in ink: 20; on sketchbook mount: One of the gorges of the Buller river. The gorge just above Matukituki 1847. W.F. with Brunner & Heaphy; 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.

177 x 250 mm

watercolour & opaque white 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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