St George’s Bay, Auckland. Mr Blackett’s house.
Creator
Date Created
1856
Identifier
Hocken Pictorial Collections - 82/63
a3680
Description
On sketchbook mount in ink: St George’s Bay, Auckland. 1856; in pencil: Mr Blackett’s house; 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
244 x 347 mm
Medium
watercolour & opaque white 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
Files
Collection
Citation
Fox, William, 1812-1893, “St George’s Bay, Auckland. Mr Blackett’s house.,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed December 22, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/5281.