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Date: 1845

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: E-080-q-3-002

Description: An inlet in the Marlborough Sounds, with two wading birds, possibly shags, in the foreground, a small canoe with occupants by a rocky outcrop in the middle ground, bush and the palisades of a pa to the right. High hills in the background. In one of George Duppa's sketchbooks. Fox and Duppa were in a farming partnership while Fox was living in Nelson between 1843 and 1848. In addition, Fox is know to have spent March 1845 exploring the country north of the Wairau River. One of the watercolours by Fox in the Hocken Library is entitled Melville Cove. S. side of Cook's Straits. 1845. It is a view from a higher standpoint looking down on the bay, with Maori whare close to the shore among trees, and two Maori canoes on the water. The date on the Hocken watercolour is the basis for the date ascribed to the Turnbull's drawing Inscriptions: Recto - bottom centre - Title. W. Fx Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1846

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

Reference: WC-325

Description: Shows Buller River, between high cliffs at night, the moon breaking through clouds and a canoe containing three or four figures being poled along Probably dates from Fox, Brunner, Heaphy and Kehu's exploring trip from Nelson to the West Coast of the South Island for 5 months in 1846. Other Titles - [Canoe on river, steep cliffs either side. 18--] Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Buller Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 368 x 253 mm Provenance: By descent to Wilkie Family Processing information: Painting formerly titled "Canoe on river, steep cliffs either side", until title deciphered in 1993.

Date: 1875

By: Hoyte, John Barr Clark, 1835-1913; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: C-052-007

Description: Shows eel traps and two whares in the foreground at the lake's edge at a river mouth. Three Maori are standing and seated in front of the buildings and there is a small canoe in the water and a European yacht in the distance. Bush and tall trees surround the water's edge and the Tararuas can be seen in the background. Hoyte made more than one copy of this view. An almost identical one sold in New Zealand in 1995, possibly the watercolour held by Auckland Art Gallery. An article in the Daily Southern Cross of 18 January 1866 refers to a number of Hoyte's watercolours including 'a picture of Horowhenua Lake, in Wellington, from a pencil drawing by Mr W. Fox'. Hoyte is not known to have visited Horowhenua and all of his known views of Horowhenua Lake may derive from William Fox's pencil drawing. The William Fox watercolour seems likely to be one held by the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, Horowhenua Lake, c1850s, watercolour on paper, gift of Mr Cranleigh Barton, 1977. Other Titles - William Fox Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - J. C. Hoyte [in Chinese white] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour & Chinese white, 272 x 415 mm

Date: [1850s?]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-012

Description: A Māori canoe being poled along the swift-flowing Rangitikei River, with a steep bush-topped cliff behind Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - W. Fox. on Wanganui? or Rangitikei? [in pencil, not in the artist's hand] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 175 x 218 mm

Date: 1855 - 1865

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

Reference: WC-047

Description: A Maori couple standing beneath a tree to the left, looking across the broad expanse of the Rangitikei River, with a canoe pulled up on a bank. Inscriptions: Recto - title in pencil in the artist's hand Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 344 mm Provenance: Wilkie collection

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :[Russell from Paihia. ca 1850]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-002

Description: A sandy beach with a group by and in a small canoe at the water's edge and Motumaire Island in the water with low hills beyond. The second section of a 5-part panorama Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 305 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

From: [Fox, William] 1812-1893 :[Russell from Paihia. ca 1850]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-005

Description: View mostly of the Paihia area at the waterfront facing east, with cows grazing beneath a large tree to the right, a beach with several people and a canoe and a sailing ship on the water beyond. The fifth section of a 5-part panorama Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 305 mm

Date: 1846

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918; New Zealand Company

Reference: C-013-007

Description: In the left foreground is a group of Maori and with two canoes on a beach with golden sands, possibly near the mouth of a stream. To the right is an arched rock and another unusual rock formation, with two women gathering shells. Bush-clad hills behind to the right and sea and the distant hills of Nelson to the left. Other Titles - Kaiteriteri Golden Bay Inscriptions: Recto - top centre - title in pencil; Verso - May be numbered 220, New Zealand Company number In 1846, Fox was the New Zealand Company Agent in Nelson Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 510 x 1270 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull as part of the New Zealand Company collection in London in 1915.

Date: 1864

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

Reference: WC-007-1

Description: Shows two canoes near bank, with spit of land jutting into water. Groups of people near canoes, watching small craft with sail. Hills in far distance Paikea was a major chief in the Kaipara area. 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: On separate label: title in pencil. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 344 mm Provenance: By family descent to the Wilkie Family

Date: 1864

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-008

Description: Shows canoe and two craft with sails on river; hill country beyond and river bushy banks. In the foreground is part of a fence, either European or Maori and a small ground of Maori about to launch another canoe. Fox made an official visit to Kaipara in 1864, hence the dating of this work. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 343 mm

Date: 1845

From: [Duppa, George 1817-1888] :[Sketchbook ca 1852-1860]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: E-080-q-3-001

Description: The palisades of a pa to the left, a group of six Maori men (one holding a taiaha), women and children, with a baby, left centre, by a beach. In the foreground are two kete full of potatoes or kumara. A canoe with four occupants is close to shore, attached by a rope to a stone, and either leaving or arriving. A further canoe is visible in the background as are several whare, and a tree converted to a double-platform pataka or food-storage construction. The settlement is on a narrow strip of land between the sea and hills in the background. In one of George Duppa's sketchbooks. In the same sketchbook, on the following page, is a pencil drawing by Fox of Melville Cove (E-080-q-3-002) likely to have been drawn in 1845. This view [Maori on shore ...] may show Waitohi Pa at the head of Marlborough Sounds, now the site of Picton. It shows a large pa, not the small kainga depicted in a watercolour by Fox of Melville Cove. The watercolour of Melville Cove is inscribed Melville Cove, S. side of Cook's Straits, 1845. It is in the collections of the Hocken Library Other Titles - Marlborough Sounds Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - W. Fox del Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on paper 185 x 270 mm

Date: 1850 - 1870

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Stack, James West (Rev), 1835-1919

Reference: A-210-008

Description: A view from south of the Sugar Loaf Islands, looking towards the land and Mount Taranaki, with a buoy and two Maori canoes with sails in the foreground. Attached to the same sheet, on the same paper, and almost certainly by the same artist as A-210-009. Attributed to Fox on stylistic grounds Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and Chinese white on cream wove paper, 138 x 226 mm Provenance: Collection of James West Stack. Possibly given to Stack by Fox in the late summer of 1861, when Stack and his wife visited Fox at his home, Westoe, in Rangitikei. Transfers: Transferred from the papers of James West Stack in Manuscripts and Archives (fMS Stack, J. W. Papers and pictures), 1970s.

Date: 1847

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

Reference: WC-045

Description: Shows a group of people on a river bank, with a large pa (Otaraia) on the hill to the right. The palisades and houses of the pa, built by Ngatuere Tawhirimatea, are clearly seen. A small boat with sail is on the Ruamahanga River Reproduced by the Library as a Turnbull Library Print, 1965, as Otaraia Pa, Ruamahanga River, Wairarapa. 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. Exhibitied in 'Drawn From Nature: Europeans Record New Zealand, 1770-1860' exhibition at the National Library Gallery, 31 March to 28 May 1989. Other Titles - Otaraia Pa, Wairarapa Identified on acquisition from a closely similar watercolour in the Hocken Library, inscribed in Fox's hand 'Oteriah Pah, Ruamahanga River, Wiararapa Valley, 1857' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 360 mm

Date: [ca. 1848]

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893; Longueville, H N, active 19th century?; Ellis, Donald Grant, 1937-2010; Groshinski, Brian Peter, 1944-

Reference: A-465-015

Description: A view of Nelson Harbour from the hills above, and possibly from where William Fox was living. The Boulder Bank and Haulashore Island are visible, with snow-capped mountains in the distance. A two-masted ship and two waka can be seen in Nelson Haven, as well as two other vessels out in Tasman Bay. There are figures unloading barrels on the shore, and two houses in the foreground on the left Accompanied by a photocopied letter, originally adhered to the back of the painting, from Dawn Smith of the Nelson Provincial Library, dated 1982. It suggests the (unsigned) work is by William Fox, and that the handwriting on the recto is that of a Miss Longueville, some of whose works the Nelson Museum holds Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - View of the harbour, Nelson NZ [in ink] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on paper, 253 x 340 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, from collection of Don Ellis, art collector, until about 1983; may have come from the album of a Miss Longueville