Verso: 7; on sketchbook mount in ink: W. Fox’s House, Nelson. 1848; in purple pencil; Same house as on opposite house with additions; verso mount: Blind Bay. Nelson. View from W. Fox’s house 1847 [4,274/32]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink:…
In 1848 Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell was appointed to the office of commissioner for extinguishing native titles in the South Island. Mantell used this collection of cardboard labels to represent the inter-relationships of the hapu of the Otago…