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Toi-Toi (or any other man) or woman. Defence force Taranaki.
Centre (c.) in pencil: Toi-Toi (or any other man) or woman; l.l. - l.r. in pencil: Defence force Taranaki. 12 stone 30 June 64; verso: [pencil sketch inscribed: Mahoetai - 20 June]
Tokohou : [the story of Prince Tokugawa the fifteenth].
In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial…
Tomahawk.
"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…
Tombs in the suburbs of Cairo.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1853 1853; on mount in ink: Tombs in the suburbs of, Cairo
Tombstone, Bamborough Churchyard.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Tombstone, Bamborough Churchyard. 1 Mar 1878
Tongue cut sparrow.
Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated…
Topography
Gell's detailed study of the architectural discoveries unearthed at Pompei over the course of the eighteenth century provides an example of the strong English interest in topography and archaeology that often informed travel. This particular image…
Towards Auckland 6.
Lower left (l.l.): [title]; l.r.: McCahon Jan 54
Town of Aden from the Pass.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1853; on mount in ink: Town of Aden from the Pass
Town of Lyttelton as viewed from the ship, Erskine Bay 1842.
This and 11,918 are part of the same panorama but linking section is missing.
Town of Lyttelton.
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…
