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Queenstown.
Verso in pencil: No 3 Queenstown no 3 £11-11-0 Evelyn Page; verso in ink in Dr Brasch’s hand: Charles Brasch
Lyttelton Harbour.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: E. Polson; verso in pencil in Brasch
New Year holiday. (Corsair Bay).
Lower right (l.r). in pencil: Evelyn Page; verso in pencil: Charles Brasch 536 12 New Year Holiday Evelyn Page.
Le terme dei Romani
This drawing of Diocletian's Baths can be traced to Andrea Palladio. The Bertotti-Scamozzi illustrations in this volume follow those included by the English architect, Lord Burlington, in his study of the Baths of the Romans, Fabbriche Antiche…
View of the Great Peak.
Margin below image l. - r. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Copied from Parkinson View of the Great Peak &c. For history of this see my copy of Parkinson. It is Mount Egmont taken about 50 miles south & off Cape Egmont. T.M.H.
Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman
Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman on Cook's first voyage, died before returning to London, and his papers found their way to the library of Joseph Banks. Parkinson's brother, Stanfield, eventually obtained the papers, after a bitter public…
