IMAGE
Hodgkins, William Mathew 1833-1898 :Minor Peak, Wakatipu / W H 1870
- Date
- 1870
- By
- Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Fox, William, 1812-1893; Wilkie, John Campbell, 1899-1977
- Reference
- WC-093
- Description
Shows a paddle-steamer, the Antrim, fuelling (off Pig Island?), a dinghy on the near shore, trees, and snow-tipped mountains in the background
Inscription below painting names Minor Peak and Benmore; label from mount (discarded) also names Hawkins (unidentified).
Paddle steamer is the Antrim, built 1868.
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - title, date and initials
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour on card 160 x 225 mm
Provenance: Wilkie family, heirs of Sir William Fox. Probably given by Hogkins to Fox, along with another drawing, WC-068, another work with the same provenance.
- Additional description
Painting is foxed. Includes splashes of watercolour and ink in the sky area
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Format
- 1 watercolour(s), Works of art, Watercolours, Watercolour on card 160 x 225 mm
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