Port Nicholson from the Karori Road about two miles from Wellington, New Zealand.

1843

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 10b

a3633

Verso in ink: Port Nicholson - from the Karori Road abt 2 miles from Welln; in pencil: New Zealand; on sketchbook mount in ink: Port Nicholson - from the Karori Road abt 2 miles from Welln, New Zealand. 1843; verso mount: The rata in flower; 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.

170 x 243 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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