Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: W. Handcock S.R.A. M.ch 64; on original mount in pencil: Quarantine Island, south P.t Chalmers & the blueskin road from the back bay of Port a Bello; paper maker’s chop: London Board
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Otago Peninsula landscapes. Colin McCahon; through image in pencil: [gridlines]; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular…
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: John Buchanan; l.r. in ink: Otago Harbour, Portobello [sic] bay; verso: Inside the Heads, Otago Harbour, from Capt. Ridley’s, Portobella [sic] bay. April 1859 J.B.
1. It appears to have been mounted and titled for Mrs Buckland. 2. The site of Larnach Castle was known as the Camp by 1876, but not by 1867. Therefore, the date given on the mount title could either be a typographical mistake or reflect the date it…
Verso c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: An unfinished copy from no 1. Done by Robert Fulton in 1849 & given to me by his brother James Fulton in 1894. Dunedin looking down the line of Stafford St. Very similar to Kettle’s View of Dunedin & Upper…
Verso a in ink: Dunedin City Otago New Zealand 1865; on sketchbook mount a in ink, & b in pencil: Dunedin in 1865; on sketchbook mount of c in pencil (library hand): (Unidentified view of a harbour) Dunedin?; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas…
05 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "on right. 4YA. Highcliffe [sic] Otago Peninsular [sic] c. 9 x 11 1/2. (Varnished with theatrical spirit gum (for sliding on boards etc) C.McC" Dated by Luit Bieringa.