Lower left (l.l.) with brush: View of Otago Heads, Port Chalmers, Mount Cargill & Blueskin from the Portobello Road - six miles from Dunedin, sketched from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer &c 1866
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: View of Otago Heads and Port Chalmers from Signal Hill near Dunedin from a sketch from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: G.O’Brien 1865; l.c. in pencil: Dunedin Harbour from the Caversham Rise; l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken; through image in pencil: [location & colour notes, gridlines]; verso: [sketch of Dunedin from the South].
1. It appears to have been mounted and titled for Mrs Buckland. 2. The site of Larnach Castle was known as the Camp by 1876, but not by 1867. Therefore, the date given on the mount title could either be a typographical mistake or reflect the date it…
On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Port Chalmers in 1851 by G.B. Shaw. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; verso in pencil: Port Chalmers 1851. C.B. Shaw.