Riwaka Valley. Nelson.

1846

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 22,641

a3628

Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Riwaka Valley. Viewpoint on the hillside above the junction of the Riwaka valley road and the Nelson - Takaka State Highway (no 60) on north side of valley. Grid Reference, topographical map NZMS 1 Sheet S 13 345573. This information supplied by Dr B.H. Howard 28/5/64

On sketchbook mount in ink: The Riwaka Valley. Nelson. 1846; verso sketchbook mount crossed out in pencil: A Site of massacre. The Wairau Plain. 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.

175 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

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