Description
On sketchbook mount in ink: Wairau River. 1845; verso mount: [Waitoi, Queen Charlotte Sound… 4,274/35]; 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.