Wesleyan Native School. Three Kings, near Auckland.

1849

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 75a

a3655

Lower right (l.r.): W.F. April 1849 Wesleyan Native School … [trimmed] Three Kings Auckland; verso in pencil: 43; verso in ink: 49; on sketchbook mount in ink: Wesleyan Native School. Three Kings, near Auckland. 1849; 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.

170 x 251 mm

watercolour, pen & ink on paper

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

Fox sketchbook