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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
- Date
- 1875
- By
- Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field family
- Reference
- E-401
- Description
Contains 109 sketches of Fiordland and the West Coast, from aboard S S Maori. Locations included are: Stewarts Island, Dog Island, Bluff, Horseshoe Bay, Preservation Inlet, Gulches Head, Northport, Dusky Sound, Cascade Cove, Acheron Passage, Breaksea Sound, Doubtful Sound, Thompson Sound, Nancy Sound, George Sound, Milford, Martin's Bay, Big Bay, Mt Aspiring, Jackson's Bay, Buller River, Westport, Cape Foulwind, Bucklands Peaks, Hokitika, Otira Gorge near Kelly's Creek, Mt Cook..
Most of the sketches are very simple and rough.
Dating: dated 1875 in diary notes at back of volume, recording a trip taken from Port Chalmers between Saturday 13 March 1875 and the northern West Coast, 21 March 1875
Inscriptions: Entitled by artist on each page. Nearly all undated. Diary notes at back of volume dated March 1875, and include signature W Hodgkins, p. 108
Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s).
Physical Description: 109 pencil sketches in sketchbook, 105 x 180 mm.
Finding Aids: Inventory/shelflist available..
Transfers: Transferred from Manuscripts and Archives' Field family papers..
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Curator required
- Format
- 1 sketchbook(s), Works of art, Pencil works, 109 pencil sketches in sketchbook, 105 x 180 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Same as 'X' ante. Thomson Sound looking South. [18...
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-046
Description: Looking into Thompson Sound. The view is a continuation of E-401-043, also showing Thompson Sound, and marked with a large X, lower right Other Titles - Thompson before Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 252 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :On the Mt Rochfort r[ailwa]y line [ca 21 March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-070
Description: View across flat land with three small carriages on a railway line, trees and mountains beyond Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, page size 105 x 180 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Mount Aspiring from the West Coast? March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-100
Description: Two coastal profiles Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, image size 105 x 180 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Going up Doubtful about midway along Bauza Island ...
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-041
Description: Heading into Doubtful Sound, with Bauza Island to the left, Marrington Peaks noted in the background Other Titles - Marrington Peaks. Sound Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, image size 105 x 188 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Preservation Inlet taken from the deck of the Maor...
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-010
Description: Looking back into Preservation Inlet, with Treble Mountain noted in the background, bush-covered headlands and islands Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 360 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Part of Milford Sound, March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-093
Description: A conical mountain seen across water Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, image size 105 x 180 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Very stormy. Cape Foulwind & The Steeples. [ca 22 ...
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-077
Description: Looking out to sea, with the steamer Maori in the right foreground, Cape Foulwind on the far left and The Steeples rocks in the centre background Includes a note 'The Steeples could just be seen in the scud' Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil and ink on page of sketchbook, image size 105 x 180 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Out of Cooks dock, Pickersgill Harbour, Dusky Soun...
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-025
Description: Inside Dusky Sound, with the steamer Maori shown in broadside and beam end views. Other Titles - Cook's Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 360 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Studies of trees, Buller district, ca 21 March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-068
Description: Native trees, two drawings scribbled out Quantity: 1 holograph. Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, page size 105 x 180 mm.
Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :Cunaris Sound from Boat Passage. Lump [16 March 1875]
Date: 1875
From: Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898 :[Sketchbook; Fiordland and West Coast views]. 1875
Reference: E-401-018
Description: View from Chalky Inlet towards the entrance to Cunaris Sound. The Lump is noted to the left. Rain falling on still water. Hodgkins' 'Boat Passage' may be Return Channel, between Great Island and the Passage Islands, Chalky Inlet Other Titles - Return Channel Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on two pages of sketchbook, image size 105 x 360 mm.