W. Fox’s House, Nelson.

1848

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 31

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Verso: 7; on sketchbook mount in ink: W. Fox’s House, Nelson. 1848; in purple pencil; Same house as on opposite house with additions; verso mount: Blind Bay. Nelson. View from W. Fox’s house 1847 [4,274/32]; 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.

238 x 345 mm

watercolour on paper

Sketchbook bequeathed to Dr T.M. Hocken by Sir William Fox in 1893; Dr T.M. Hocken’s Collection.

Fox sketchbook