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[Portrait of W.M. Hodgkins.]
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on stretcher in pencil: Dr Skinner, Director Otago Museum, King St, Dunedin
Portrait of a young woman artist.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]
Portrait of Nellie Martha Ross.
Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men…
Free emigration to New Zealand poster
Note in ink in Dr Hocken's hand on bottom left corner: Though the N.Z. Company in 184[?] set up an influential committee in Dublin including the Lord Mayor, Archbishop Whateley, and the Provost of Trinity College but little Irish emigration left for…
Regulations to be observed on board the emigrant ships of the New Zealand Company poster
Note in ink in Dr Hocken's hand at top: These comprehensive regulations vary slightly from those in the adjoining frame. Mr Bridges, the secretary of the Plymouth Board, succeeded Mr H.S. Chapman (afterwards Judge C.) in 1843 as editor of the 'New…
The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page of the first edition].
At the age of seventeen, the Venetian Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled with his merchant father, Nicolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, to the court of Kublai Khan. Polo was away from Venice for twenty-four years. His account of his travels and of the Peking…
