Places

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-042

Description: Distant view of Huka Falls, seen from upstream Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 233 x 332 mm

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-014

Description: View of the Waikato River, with a small boat with sail close to the bank 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 158 x 235 mm

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-017

Description: A fortification on top of a hill to the left, above the Waikato River. Compare the artist's 'Tuakau, Lower Waikato, 1864' (WC-018) showing the same fortifications from the opposite side. Probably shows the Alexandra Redoubt, established at Tuakau in 1863 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 160 x 230 mm

Date: 1874

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-036

Description: View looking down onto the roof of a bathhouse over hot springs, a stream winding towards the site with another hidden between cliffs. Mount Tauhara is in the background The watercolour originally accompanied a report by By William Fox 'Hot springs district of the North Island' 1st August 1874 published in the Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives, H. 26, 1874. Fox describes 'About half a mile eastward from the [mouth of the Waikato] River is a small swampy flat ... through which flow two streams ... At the point at which the two unite, a tolerably good bath has been erected by John Loffley, formerly an A.B. sailor in Her Majesty's Navy, who served in the Naval Brigade during the Waikato War. A dressing room is annexed ... Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 233 x 334 mm

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-018

Description: Distant view of redoubt, with red flag flying on a hill to the right. There is an island in the middle of the Waikato River to the left. Compare the artist's watercolour 'Tuakau, Waikato, 1864' (WC-017) for a view of the same fortifications from the opposite side. Probably shows the Alexandra Redoubt, established at Tuakau in 1863 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 230 mm

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977

Reference: WC-029

Description: Shows a wharenui with carved barge-boards and entrance porch, two European-style houses, two tents, the lower part of the King's flagstaff inside a fence in the right foreground, and barrels or cooking pots with several people moving around on the marae in front of the wharenui. In the foreground is a pile of planks, with three European men leaning or sitting on it, surveying the scene or conversing. 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. Other Titles - Title on mount: Kings palace & flagstaff. Ngaruawahia. N.Zd 1864 Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title in ink. Additional title & date in pencil on backing board lower right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 157 x 235 mm Provenance: By descent to Wilkie family.

Date: [1864?]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-043

Description: Shows a tall carved gateway on the left, with a group of Maori centre and a pataka (storehouse) on the right; Ruapehu and Tongariro beyond lake in distance. The two children in the foreground are holding kete (flax kits) and there is a dog beneath the carved gateway. There is a flagpole in front of the pataka. There is a watercolour from a similar view, also by Fox, in the Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia (Ref. no. NK 564). A European traveller is shown in the Australian watercolour, the groups of Maori are different, there is a cooking fire in the centre foreground, flax baskets in front of the pataka, and the pataka is facing the viewer. A photograph of the Australian watercolour is in Drawings & Prints, under the same title as the Alexander Turnbull Library's watercolour. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 340 mm