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Date: [1872]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: PA9-022

Description: Photographic copy of a watercolour of Westoe by William Fox, made ca 1970s by an unidentified photographer for the Alexander Turnbull Library Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Dye coupler print 23.7 x 39 cm [visible image], in frame 41.6 x 56.7 cm

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-026

Description: Shows two huts beside road on which a bullock team is being driven. Mount Egmont, free of snow, in the distance Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 157 x 235 mm

Date: 1872 - 1875

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-049

Description: Shows William Fox's station Westoe, viewed from the side. There is a group of people riding on a cart drawn by two horses, leaving the house, and bush and hills beyond it. The view is from across the river, but the artist has enlarged the house relative to the place from which he must have drawn it; also the carriage and horses are too large for the proportions of the house. This house was completed in 1874, but possibly substantially built by 1872. See WC-050 for Fox's dated picture of the house Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 106 x 315 mm

Date: 1850 - 1851

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Cridland, Henry John, 1821-1867; Burnand, William Henry, active 1843-1850s

Reference: A-195-015

Description: View of Lyttelton Habour from the Bridle Path, on the hills above the town. The first four ships are in port, with passengers leaving the Cressy via a wharf and walking up into the town. Several large buildings are near the water's edge, including immigration barracks, John Robert Godley's house and the offices of the Lyttelton Times newspaper just below the hill on the left. The Sumner Road is formed. Other small houses and tents are dotted around. Immigrants are carrying baggage and some have wheeled carts. A family is greeting a man building his house in the left foreground and a clothes line is in the right foreground. A building on the far right is marked in pencil "C Store H" [?]. On the verso is a schematic map of the location of Christchurch, showing the River Courtney (Waimakariri), Papanui Bush, the Avon River and Riccarton with William and John Deans' property, notes about land purchases and a list of names of land-owning Canterbury settlers. Possibly Fox's original drawing for the etching entitled "Port Lyttelton. Passengers by the Cressy landing" published in 'Four Illustrative Views of the Canterbury Settlement" in 1851. However the style suggests that it may be a copy of the etching by H. J. Cridland - cf A-195-016, especially the foreshortening of perspective and the manner of drawing people. A watercolour in the Hocken Library by Fox entitled "Port Lyttelton. Immigrants luggage disembarking, Jan 1851" is also similar. Other Titles - Lyttelton Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - [title in ink]; Recto - bottom left - Office of the Lyttleton Times [in pencil]; Verso - [notes and a map in pencil, ink and watercolour] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink on blue laid paper 204 x 322 mm Provenance: Originally tipped in to Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull's bound copy of the New Zealand Journal. Before being acquired by Turnbull, the volumes had belonged to W H Burnand.

Date: 1872 - 1874

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-050

Description: Close view of the front of William Fox's newly-built house, with children in a horse-drawn cart on the curving drive outside the front front door. Garden beds are established at the edge of the drive, with a circular bed in front of the house, with mature cabbage trees and another tree. Reproduced as the front cover illustration of the Alexander Turnbull Library Desk Diary, 1989. The house was not completed until 1874 (information from the current owners). Either this was a speculative drawing by Fox, based on the architect's drawings, or he labelled it at a later date and was mistaken about the date. Exhibited in 'Picturing Paradise; the colonial watercolours of William Fox', Exhibition at National Library Gallery 25 February - 18 June 2000; Hocken Library, Dunedin, 11 September - 15 October 2000. Curated by Jill Trevelyan. Inscriptions: title and date in ink on separate label, once part of the backing board Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 413 mm