On the Porirua Road, near Crofton.

Date Created

1857

Identifier

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 19
a3636

Subject

Description

on sketchbook mount in ink: On the Porirua Road near Crofton 1857; on mount in pencil: Crofton. Now Ngaio, suburb of Wellington; 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

243 x 344 mm

Medium

watercolour on paper

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

Genre

Landscapes & Cityscapes

Files

a3636.jpg

Citation

Fox, William, 1812-1893, “On the Porirua Road, near Crofton.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5239.