Lower left (l.l.) with brush: D. Lusk 41; verso in white paint superimposed over pencil: Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z. Doris Lusk 25 Ross St Dunedin; verso in pink crayon: C Brasch Dunedin; label: 20
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 frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath me these sketches which he commenced to take…
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on card backing in pencil in different hands: The Quarry, Water of Leith. Woodhaugh Signt. G.P. Nerli Marquis of Nerli, Italy. Dunedin. £10.10.0. 4A.
Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on mount with brush: One of New Zealand’s best known and most successful bowlers of all time. Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961. Presented to Carisbrook Cricket Club by Thomas Richmond Fisher.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: View of Otago Heads, Port Chalmers, Mount Cargill & Blueskin from the Portobello Road - six miles from Dunedin, sketched from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer &c 1866
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: View of Otago Heads and Port Chalmers from Signal Hill near Dunedin from a sketch from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G. O'Brien 1867; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: The Taieri Plains, 1867. Taken from the the Upper or Halfway Bush Road leading down to the North Taieri. Saddle Hill. T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand:…