Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Town of Lyttelton March 1851 T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note by W. Holmes transcribed in ink by Dr Hocken: VII. College Wood. 1600 feet high. Direction of Bridle Road. Lyttelton…
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: W. Handcock; label: City of Dunedin by W. Handcock, D.cr 1864; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: W. Handcock was the first drawing master of the Boys’ High School. His watercolour is very accurate. By the old…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Unbending, from public cares, on public grounds; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr James Howorth, the lawyer & Crown prosecutor and Mr Alexander Rennie the tailor, teetotaller, and Provincial Councillor in the old…
Verso in pencil: Supposed to be taken from Barstow Hall [pencil sketch of house & hills]; in ink: 25; on mount in ink: The cemetery at Auckland; in pencil: Graves of Commodore Burnett H.M.S. Orpheus. Captain Mercer C. Batty 4B de RA
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Burial place of the Thomsons of Earnslaw Lennel. 19 Aug 78. The Tweed - where Lennels convent closed their march (There now is left but one frail arch. See Marmion Canto IV. 17
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Burial place of the Turnbulls of Abbey St Bathans. 16 Aug 78. 3 2 1. [key provided with transcript of tombstones]
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: St Martin’s Church, Canterbury, where Christianity was first preached in England. 1 July 1878
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Wohlers’ grave, Ringaringa Point, Stewart’s Island (Taken March 1896; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note: In 1843, the NZ Company brought out…