Camping out, Lyttelton.

Alternative Title

Part of town site of Port Lyttleton. First immigrants arrived January 1851.

Date Created

1851

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 14,415
a3626

Description

Lower right (l.r.) with brush: W Fox Camping out, Lyttelton. Jany 11th 1851 W. Fox; verso: 10. 26; on sketchbook mount: Part of town site of Port Lyttelton. First immigrants arrived January 1851; 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

263 x 400 mm

Medium

pencil & 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

Files

a3626.jpg

Citation

Fox, William, 1812-1893, “Camping out, Lyttelton.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed November 24, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5231.