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Textile patterns.
This book contains 64 colourful printed textile patterns produced by the Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa, who flourished c. 1893-1905. The pages are double folded in the Japanese style. Kyoka zuan is one of the important collections of textile…
Smiling woman.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]
The quarry, Water of Leith.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on card backing in pencil in different hands: The Quarry, Water of Leith. Woodhaugh Signt. G.P. Nerli Marquis of Nerli, Italy. Dunedin. £10.10.0. 4A.
Street scene.
Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.
Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on mount with brush: One of New Zealand’s best known and most successful bowlers of all time. Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961. Presented to Carisbrook Cricket Club by Thomas Richmond Fisher.
St Clair beach, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146