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Speight’s advertisement, Capping Carnival Magazine.
An early advertisement for the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin printed in the Capping Carnival Magazine from August 1919. The consumption of vast quantities of beer has always been an activity associated with student life.
Sotheby's musings
Sotheby's youthful poems eagerly evoke the picturesque, and the engravings added to this second edition only heighten that sensibility. An evocation such as 'Hail, solemn wreck!' (10) does not connote praise, and the beauty of the moonlit ruin proves…
A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages (1)
Smollett is best known as a novelist and historian, but his collection of voyages was popular during the second half of the eighteenth century. In his own travels, Smollett was a very grumpy character, but he clearly possessed a good idea of what his…
A compendium of authentic and entertaining voyages (2)
Smollett is best known as a novelist and historian, but his collection of voyages was popular during the second half of the eighteenth century. In his own travels, Smollett was a very grumpy character, but he clearly possessed a good idea of what his…
Laplanders
Smollett's collection ranged as widely as possible in all directions, and this account of Laplanders provides a nice comparison with the Webber image above.
Portrait of Alan Pearson in his Lyttelton abode.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: M.D.S. 91; verso in crayon in Alan Pearson’s hand: Portrait of Alan Pearson in his Lyttelton abode 1991 by M. Smithers
Untitled landscape 2.
Lower right (l.r.) in hard pencil: Michael Smither; verso in soft pencil: Smither 2
Untitled landscape 1.
Lower right (l.r.) in hard pencil: Michael Smither; verso in soft pencil: Smither 1
Janine.
Verso: MDS 70; verso frame: oil on hardboard Janine
Portrait of Elizabeth Smither.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: MDS 72; on label: 287 (18.11.75) Smither portrait oil; stamp: Peter McLeavey Art Dealer Wellington 1975; inscribed: 1975 Exhib cat. 4
Desert with mauve hill.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: M.D. Smither 69
Grandad looks at the baby.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: M.D. Smither, 67
In memoriam.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 1/2/19/73 In Memoriam MDS
Rectangle.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 1/10/73 Rectangle MDS
Stephen Estall, conductor (3).
Label: 117