Teraumai or Mangles Valley looking towards Martukituki or Buller.

The Teraumea Plain. Middle Island. Nelson 1847. with Brunner & Heaphy

1847

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 23a

a3638

Fox explored the area in February of 1846.

Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Teraumai or Mangles Valley looking towards Martukituki or Buller; on sketchbook mount in ink: The Teraumea Plain. Middle Island. Nelson 1847. with Brunner & Heaphy; verso u.r.: 2; 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.

176 x 250 mm (pasted to card)

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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