On sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa. French Settlement on Banks Peninsula; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Akaroa. French settlement on Banks Peninsula. Sir Wm Fox. About 1835 a French Mariner, Captain L'anglois visited Akaroa and bought from the…
Through image in pencil: [colour notes]; verso in pencil: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1859 … [illeg]; on sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1858; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir…
Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Duppa's Allington. The house has long since disappeared, but the name is still used by the present. The site is on the Highway from Nelson to the Buller just before it crosses the Wairoa River. national Highway No 6.…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Auckland from the west side of Commercial Bay, 12th February 1844; through image in ink: [numerals] 1. Queen Street 2. Shortland Crescent 3. Conroy- solicitor 4. Broadbent 5. Cormack- watchmaker &…
On sketchbook mount: Auckland, North Shore & Rangitoto 1871. From Govt House. Sir G. Bowen, Gov.r; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was…
Verso in pencil: Auckland. This is the third attempt I have made at this view from the Domain, a very pretty kind of rough botanical garden of some extent. The large building, the House of Assembly. The Man of War lay in the stream, but the Pier and…
Verso in pencil: 41; in ink: 47; on sketchbook mount: Shortland St & St Pauls. Auckland 1849; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a…
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Bamborough village (from Castle) ?school, St Aidans, Hedgehope hill, Gloroum, Hedghope hill, the Cheviot. 25 Mar 78
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: J.J. 1845; margin below image in ink: The Bay of Karangahape in the estuary of Manukao 1843; verso in ink over pencil: The Bay of Karangahapi in the estuary of Manukau 1843.
Margin below image in iron gall ink: Blewitt’s Redoubt, Rangiawhia [page of Diary 20 March 1864]; margin below image in pencil: Col. Blewitt 69 Reg.t Q.s 65th; l.r. in pencil: 53; u.l. in pencil: 2; watermark: A. Cowan & Sons 1858.