Trinidad, 8 miles off, b.g S. by W. 9 April 1851.

Trinidad.

1851

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 82/49

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Known as South Trinidad Island & lies c.1000 km west of Brazil in the South Atlantic. It was often sought by ships' captains as a check on their nautical reckoning, and therefore seen by many emigrants on their way from Britain down the Atlantic to N.Z.

Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Bear… S. by W. & … [illeg]; l.r. in ink: Trinidad. 8 miles off. B.g S by W. 9 April 1851; verso in pencil: 54 [drawing inscribed:]… [illeg] … arlin Vap Rock. Bearing East 9 April /51 …[illeg] D Wm …; in ink: 61; on sketchbook mount: Trinidad; 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 250 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

Seascapes & Marines