On the Porirua Road, near Crofton.
Creator
Date Created
1857
Identifier
Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 19
a3636
Subject
Description
on sketchbook mount in ink: On the Porirua Road near Crofton 1857; on mount in pencil: Crofton. Now Ngaio, suburb of Wellington; 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
243 x 344 mm
Medium
watercolour on paper
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
Landscapes & Cityscapes
Files
Collection
Citation
Fox, William, 1812-1893, “On the Porirua Road, near Crofton.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 22, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5239.