Mr Rhodes’ Station, Acheron Bay. Canterbury. ca 1848-49.

[ca. 1849]

1849

Hocken Pictorial Collections - A782

a3690

Property purchased in 1847 by Rhodes from Greenwood Rhodes. New house built 1853.

Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Mr Rhodes Stat.n. The hills … [illeg]; on sketchbook mount: Mr Rhodes Station, Acheron Bay. Canterbury; verso u.r.: 31 27 [crossed out]; 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