Mount Egmont and New Plymouth from the Sea.

1849

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 55

a3653

Title presumed to be from original sketchbook mount.

Verso u.r. in ink: 43; verso left panel: [unfinished pencil sketch]; 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.

2 sheets of paper joined to form: 171 x 509 mm

watercolour & opaque white with scumble on paper

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

Fox sketchbook

Seascapes & Marines