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The Right Honourable Edward, Lord Hawke.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Admiral Lord Edward Hawke, 1705-1781. First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Capt Cook named Hawke’s Bay. T.M. Hocken.
The Rev. John Williams, the Martyr of Erromanga, with a landscape of the Mission House and grounds of Rarotonga.
On label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Rev. John Williams (1796-1839) of the London Missionary Society. Founder of the Samoan & other missions. “The martyr of Erromanga” one of the New Hebrides group. Murdered by the natives, Nov.r 20th 1839 at…
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
The rata in flower. Welln. NZ. Decr, 1850.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: The rata in flower. Welln. NZ. Decr, 1850 WF; verso: No 2; on sketchbook mount in ink: The Rata Valley - Karori Tree myrtle; verso mount: In the Wiararapa Valley & Port Nicholson; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas…
The quarry, Water of Leith.
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.
