Places

Date: 1864

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

Reference: WC-041

Description: Shows Ohimemutu, the area from the church to the end of the pa, steam rising from the hot areas and with many people bathing in the lake. A building to the left bears a flagpole. 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 - Rotorua, Ohinemutu Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 154 x 340 mm Provenance: Wilkie Collection

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

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-086

Description: View across river flats to distant mountains. A small house in the middle distance. The Library catalogued this work in the 1970s with a date of [1865[. However Fox is known to have visited Ahaura and travelled up the Little Grey (Mawheraiti) River in 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour

Date: 1882

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

Reference: WC-028

Description: An extensive view of Parihaka village, with a meeting house on the right, a large number of low houses within fences in the centre and a white European house (Te Whiti's house) in the background to the left, at the edge of the bush. Probably dated some time after the event by the artist. By 1882, much of Parihaka was badly damaged, whereas it is shown apparently intact in this view Exhibited at '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 - Parihaka Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 2 sheets to form panorama 156 x 494 mm Provenance: Wilkie Family Collection

Date: 1843 - 1844

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-007

Description: View from lower Wadestown over the roofs of Thorndon houses, towards Kaiwharawhara, with the Hotel on the spit, and along the hills at the edge of the harbour towards Lower Hutt. A faint pencil drawing of a seated man is on the left in the foreground Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 236 mm

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-075

Description: Shows a small group of houses on the left above the Grey River, with a rowboat with a sail pulled up on a bankl. There is a track through bush on the right bank Dated [1865] by the Library on acquisition. However Fox visited Cobden Coal mine in 1872 Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 254 x 314 mm

Date: 1849

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

Reference: B-113-005

Description: View looking across the waterfront past a road skirting a cliff towards part of the harbour, with from left, inscribed along the top, the Manse and Captain Cargill's house, the Resident Agent's Office (of the New Zealand Company), Mr C. H. Kettle's house, Mr Valpy's house, the Survey Office, and on far right the school and church. 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: Recto - features identified in ink along the top of the view. Signed, titled and dated in ink. Stamped with the New Zealand Company stamp, dated Jan 7 1850 and inscribed by the New Zealand Company No. 338. A watercolour in the Hocken Collections is very similar to this view. It is titled Dunedin, Otago, January 1849. It has been annotated by T. M. Hocken as showing the 'Emigrants barracks built of manuka ... site of back of Customhouse in Bond St' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pen, ink and wash drawing 230 x 463 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards & Co, with other New Zealand Company material, London, 1915 Processing information: Formerly located at C-013-005

Date: 1860 - 1870

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

Reference: WC-010

Description: Looking down on a group of houses and across to two churches in a clump of trees with Manukau Harbour to the right, and a volcanic cone to the left Other Titles - Manukau Inscriptions: Verso - title in pencil in the artist's hand, with spelling of Manukau as Manakau Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 235 x 343 mm Provenance: By family descent to the Wilkie family.

Date: 1848

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

Reference: C-013-001

Description: Shows two figures on the near ridge, looking down over the inlet of Picton Harbour at left. To the right are hills, and in the distance can be seen islands and hills in the Marlborough Sounds. There is a small area of cleared land with a Maori kainga or pa (Waitohi Pa?) in the port area to the left, and slightly to the right, a building that appears to be a European church. The New Zealand Company stamp, dated 1848, appears in the sky area along with the number 268. Painted for the New Zealand Company during Fox's travels around the northern South Island in 1848. Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, 1983. 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. Exhibited in 'Treasures in Trust' exhibition to celebrate 75th anniversary of the Alexander Turnbull Library in 1995. Other Titles - Waitohi, Picton Inscriptions: Recto - above image - No. 268 [with NZ Company stamp dated "14 July 1848"] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 360 x 557 mm Provenance: Purchased by Alexander Turnbull from Francis Edwards, London, 1915, with other New Zealand Company material

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-067

Description: View from beach to mountain, with the town of Westport in the middle distance. Buildings include two churches Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 365 mm

Date: 1850 - 1860

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

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-003

Description: Two men standing on a grassy bluff gesturing towards the buildings of Russell, visible across the water. The third section of a 5-part panorama Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 250 x 305 mm

Date: 1865 - 1875

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: A-195-006

Description: Shows The Grange, home of W B Rhodes on right, view from Sir William Fox's garden, looking towards Wellington Harbour Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 232 x 335 mm

Date: 1872

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-087

Description: Looking around a wharf past paddle steamer to houses in the middle distance, with high hills in the background Reproduced as a Turnbull Library Print, with same title, in 1966, as part of The Fox Portfolio, with five other images Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 252 x 351 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: 1850 - 1851

From: Fox, William 1812-1893 :Four illustrative views of the Canterbury settlement with descriptions; I. Port Lyttelton. II. Landing of the passengers from the "Cressy". III. Part of the great plain. IV. The Rivers Courtenay and Hinds. / From drawings made on the spot, by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox Esq. London, John W Parker & Son ... 1851

By: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872; Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: PUBL-0001-2

Description: View looking down onto Lyttelton Harbour in September 1850, with a family in the foreground shaking hands with the builder of a house, and other new immigrants making their way up the Lyttelton side of the Bridle Path. Washing on a line to the right, tents and houses, with Mr Godley's house and emigration barracks marked, along with Sumner Road to Lyttelton. The first four immigrant ships to Canterbury are also shown in the harbour, the Charlotte Jane on the left, the Randolph, the Cressy (with sails unfurled) and the Sir George Seymour. Small boats are making their way with passengers from the Cressy to the wharf. The accompanying descriptive text reads: This sketch represents Port Lyttelton from a different and much nearer point of view, showing more distinctly the nature of the buildings which had been erected before the arrival of any colonists, and of the sort of places which the first passengers put up for temporary shelter immediately after their arrival. In this View, the shore of Victoria Harbour, opposite to Port Lyttelton, is represented; and the way of exit from the harbour is indicated. The passengers from the Cressy landed eleven days after those by the Charlotte Jane, Sir George Seymour and Randolph; the three last-named ships having sailed from England on the same day and entered Victoria Harbour on the same day, after a prosperous voyage of ninety-seven days. They have at the present time (July, 1851) been succeeded by thirteen large ships, making seventeen in all since last September. Probably based on an ink drawing by William Fox, located at A-195-015. A watercolour version is also held by the Hocken Library. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Tinted etching, black and white, 166 x 276 mm

Date: 1860 - 1880

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-022

Description: Shows Egmont, viewed from the north-west, with only a light dusting of snow on the summit. In the foreground is a farmhouse and a group of cattle 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 177 x 235 mm

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

Reference: WC-021

Description: Shows stream meandering through foreground, group of four houses right distance, and Mount Egmont left background Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 160 x 230 mm (oval) Provenance: Family descent from artist to Wilkie family

Date: 1874 - 1875

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

Reference: WC-051

Description: William Fox's homestead "Westoe" on raised land amongst trees in the middle distance. A lower field with cows grazing in the foreground, probably the home paddock. The house was completed in 1874. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 255 x 413 mm Provenance: Family descent to the Wilkie family

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: 1860 - 1866

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

Reference: WC-011

Description: Looking down to Manukau Harbour, with a sailing ship at a breakwater on a point of land to the left, and small craft at a jetty on the right. A few houses strung along shore with sections laid out in the foreground and a small church to the left. Mangere mountain is in the middle distance with Puketutu Island to the right. The background volcanoes are Ihumatao, near the modern airport. Two women, one with a parasol, and a man are gazing at the view from a low hill in the foreground 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 - Manukau Inscriptions: On separate label, once part of the backing board. Title in pencil. The first four words have been written over the erased fuller title including the words 'The western part of Auckland' Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 234 x 342 mm Provenance: By descent to the Wilkie Family.