Verso c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: An unfinished copy from no 1. Done by Robert Fulton in 1849 & given to me by his brother James Fulton in 1894. Dunedin looking down the line of Stafford St. Very similar to Kettle’s View of Dunedin & Upper…
On original mount in ink: Reproduced from a sketch painted in 1853-54 by Capt.n The Hon.ble E.H.W. Bellairs by T.W. Eyton; on original mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Sketch of Dunedin & harbour from the S., say from about Fernhill where Cap.…
Through image in ink in unknown hand: Seccomb’s Brewery, Outhwaite’s Carleton Gore, Bishopscourt, St Marys, Capt Cook Htl, Dr Kinder, Motu Tapu, Ch. of England Grammar School, Okahu P.t, Waihiki, Motu Ihi; u.l. in pencil in unknown hand: Royal…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sinclair’s house, Pigeon Bay, built 1840. Sinclair was a shipwright, drowned about 1844; on original mount in ink: These primitive sketches were given to me by …. an old carpenter who worked under…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Lyttelton; vertically through image in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Gate of emigrantsí barracks/ well/ wharf/ sample of V hut; through image in ink: Dr Donaldís house/ Ellis grocer/ grocer & butcher/ custom house;…
Lower right (l.r.) in brown ink: T.L. Stanley 1869; u.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The former swampy flat now covered by Caversham, South Dunedin, S.t Kilda, & S.t Clair. The gable of the Benevolent Institution well…
On mount in ink: Deserted pah, Island of Kapiti; in pencil: Opposite Brown’s Island; verso mount in pencil: Deserted Pah (opposite Brown’s Island) on Kapiti - NZ.d WS.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: [illeg]; on original mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Burcham’s House, River Hutt. These beautiful sketches were done by William Swainson FRS, the celebrated naturalist and extensive writer on natural history. He was…