Port Nicholson from the Town Belt Wellington.

Date Created

1857

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 12,788
a3614

Subject

Description

On sketchbook mount in ink: Port Nicholson from the Town Belt Wellington 1857 Sir WM Fox; 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

242 x 340 mm

Medium

watercolour & opaque white 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
Landscapes & Cityscapes

Files

a3614.jpg

Citation

Fox, William, 1812-1893, “Port Nicholson from the Town Belt Wellington.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 22, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5219.