Lake Howick.

1847

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 11,725 a

a3602

Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Lake Howick, now Lake Rotoroa. Fox explored area 1846 with Brunner & Heaphy.

Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Lake Howick …; on sketchbook mount: Lake Howick. 1847; verso u.r. in ink: 11 [partly illeg]; 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.

176 x 250 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

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