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…
Verso in pencil: Ohinemutu pa on Lake Rotorua; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: View from Orakau Maunga-Tautiri, with natives digging in the foreground. Ohinemutu pa on Lake Rotorua. T.M. Hocken. The morere or swing. A favourite game. Given to…
Margin below image in iron gall ink: I’m not sure if Ngaruawahia be not the dullest place I know in wet weather, but let the sun shine and Hey Presto! [page of Diary]; chop (blindprint): Superfine; l.r. in pencil: 41.
Lower left (l.l.) - l.r. in pencil: The General’s whare, Ngaruawahia from opposite bank of Waikato, King’s Palace. Council Chamber, King’s flag; margin below image in iron gall ink: [page of Diary]; margin left of image in iron gall ink: [page…
Margin below image in iron gall ink: Ngaruawahia from a few miles distance. [page of Diary]; margin left of image in iron gall ink: [page of Diary]; chop (blindprint): Superfine; l.r. in pencil: 43; verso on other half of folded page: [78/143].
Margin below image in pencil: Ngahinapouri on the Waipa; margin below image in iron gall ink: [page of Diary]; margin left of image in iron gall ink: [page of Diary]; l.r. in pencil: 85; watermark: [crown & anchor].
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: T.G. May 1848; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: New Plymouth. The old N.Z. Co’s office, Courtenay S.t, brought out from England in 1840 - afterwards the Land & Survey office. Pukaka Pa (Marsland Hill) is shown to…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Wohlers’ grave, Ringaringa Point, Stewart’s Island (Taken March 1896; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note: In 1843, the NZ Company brought out…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Wohler’s [sic] church & school house, Ruapuke Island (March 1896); watermark: J What…; on mount in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note: In 1843, the NZ…
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 3; l.c. in pencil: 7; c.l. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr W.B.D. Mantell. An amplification of his well known discovery of Moa remains! T.M.H.
Lower centre (l.c.) - l.r. in pencil: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; u.r. in pencil: 7; l.c. - l.r. in umber ink: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; verso in pencil: [unfinished sketch of tree]
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: J. Brown 1854; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Mr Mantell secures the votes of the Maoris for his friend Dr Williams by bribing them with toys. 1. Carnegie; 2. Mantell, Circa 1853, T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hockenís…
Through image in pencil: Lambert Printer etc, remedy for the Gout, L.L. Smith Pills; margin below in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Lambert, editor of the “Colonist” ill-used by one (… who considered himself ill-used in the columns of the paper.…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Brown; u.r. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Mr George Lloyd of Green Island proposes to enrol some noble volunteers in 1859 during the Maori outbreak in the North Island. T.M.H.; label in ink: Mr Lloyd of Green Island enrols…
Label in ink: Mr Bellairs, a gentleman settler at Brockville, Half Way Bush, prepares to leave New Zealand. circa 1858; second label in ink: Mr Brock-Holinshead of the Half Way Bush prepares to leave New Zealand.
Through image in pencil: Isaa…, M. Levy, 21; margin below in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr (afterwards Sir Julius) Vogel’s address to the electors. An excellent likeness. 1863. T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Vogel’s address to…
Upper centre (u.c.) - u.r. of b in pencil: Mouth of Otago - from the Settlement May 1/44; u.c. of b in blue-black ink: 9 Entrance to Otago harbour - May 1 1844; verso a in pencil: Entrance to Otago Ap.l 1844
Margin below image in pencil: Mountain Range of Pirongia from near Piko Piko; margin below image in iron gall ink: [page of Diary]; chop (blindprint): Superfine; l.r. in pencil: 47.