Matthias, native missionary at Moeraki.

Matthias, a missionary native teacher, Moeraki, Middle Island.

1849

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 4,274 85a

a3661

Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Matthias, native missionary at Moeraki; on sketchbook mount: Matthias, a missionary native teacher, Moeraki, Middle Island. 1849; 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.

250 x 176 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