Melville Cove, Gore Bay, Cooks Straits.

Alternative Title

Melville Cove. S. side of Cooks Straits.

Date Created

1845

Date

1845

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 29
a10143

Subject

Description

Verso l.l. in ink: Melville Cove, Gore Bay, Cooks Straits; on sketchbook mount: Melville Cove. S. side of Cooks Straits. 1845 ; 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.

Extent

183 x 262 mm

Medium

watercolour on paper

Spatial Coverage

Temporal Coverage

Provenance

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

Is Part Of

Fox sketchbook

Genre

Seascapes & Marines
Landscapes & Cityscapes

Files

a10143.jpg

Citation

Fox, William, 1812-1893, “Melville Cove, Gore Bay, Cooks Straits.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed October 10, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/4488.