View of Blind Bay from W. Fox’s house.

Blind Bay. View from W. Fox’s house.

Blind Bay, Nelson. View from W. Fox’s house.

1847

1847

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Verso in ink: View of Blind Bay from W. Fox’s house; on mount in ink: Blind Bay, Nelson. View from W. Fox’s house. 1847; watermark: James Whatman Turkey Mill Kent 1840; 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.

3 sheets of paper, each ca 223 x 350mm; assembled to form: 223 x 1050mm

watercolour & opaque white

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

Fox sketchbook

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