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Portrait of Rodney Kennedy.
l.l. in pencil: C.McCahon; l.r. in pencil: Portrait of Rodney Kennedy. 1939; verso in pencil: 1/-
Portrait of two Maoris.
Paper stamped u.r.: …La Rue & Co …ndon Board [illeg].
Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere; through image in pencil: [numerals]; verso in ink: [unfinished sketch].
Preliminary study for portrait of Gordon H. Brown.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Colin McCahon 1968.
Princes Street, Auckland, N.Z. ca 1845 (copied from a sketch by an officer who fought in Heke
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.l. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Princes St Auckland N.Z. circa 1845 (copied from a sketch by an officer who fought in Hekeís war) T.M. Hocken; through image in ink: Woods Hotel. Passage leading to Surveyor…
Rangiriri on the Waikato.
Margin below image in pencil: Rangiriri 19th Sep. 64 from Armitage’s; margin above image in pencil: Rangiriri on the Waikato. Capt. Mercer killed in action 1863 died from his wound a few days after at Queen’s Redoubt; margin below image in iron…
Recreation on the Town Belt.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Recreation on the Town Belt; through image in ink: 1. 2. 4; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: The manner of man in the early days. 1. Mr John McGlashan; 2. Mr W.H.Cutten; 3. Dr Purdie, Circa 1858, T.M.H.;label in ink:…
Refers to Mr W.B. Mantell’s moa bone discoveries.
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Crown dom…tion. Gravel and sand; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to Mr W.B. Mantell’s moa bone discoveries. The gravel and sand bag bespeak him a geologist. T.M.H.; label in ink: Refers to Mr Mantell’s…
Refers to the disastrous separation of Southland from the Province of Otago of which it formed part.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; through image in pencil: Superintendency, Separation, Otago Province, Mataura; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to the disastrous separation of Southland from the Province of Otago of which it formed…
Rev. J.A. Fenton’s house, Dunedin. 1850.
On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Rev. J.A. Fenton’s house, Dunedin. 1850. On site of Boys’ High School boarding house and adjoining Littlebourne house. House purchased from Robertson the grocer. Built about 1850 by Mr Tho.s [crossed out]…
Rodney Kennedy with “Vicarage Bed”, painting by Anne Hamblett (circa 1937).
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D. Lusk 1979; verso mount in ink: Rodney Kennedy with “Vicarage Bed”, painting by Anne Hamblett (circa 1937) McCahon. Doris Lusk. June 1979. w/colour pencil; in pencil unknown hand: Please leave attached. Holland;…
Rosalind.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: M.D.S. 70; label on front of mount: 284
Royal Hotel, Dunedin.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: RTR [monogram first R reversed] pinx 7/11/76; l.r. in ink: phot. 1858; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Royal Hotel, Dunedin. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; verso mount in ink: First hotel in Dunedin.…
Scotch Jocks - road over the mountains to Porirua.
On mount in ink: Scotch Jocks - road over the mountains to Porirua; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: By Wm Swainson FRS of Wellington T.M.H.
See the stirring of the Lake.
No 1 of a series of 15 drawings commissioned by Peter McLeavey to commemorate the twelfth year of his gallery’s existence.
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Joanna Paul 1970
Shaded drawing of Ivan’s head.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: M.T. Woollaston; verso in pencil: Shaded drawing of Iavan’s head. Special regard
Sinclair’s house, Pigeon Bay, built
Lower right (l.r.) in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sinclair’s house, Pigeon Bay, built 1840. Sinclair was a shipwright, drowned about 1844; on original mount in ink: These primitive sketches were given to me by …. an old carpenter who worked under…
Sketch for Window.
McCahon felt that the design was: 'a bit too easy'. McCahon gave this sketch to Brown when helping him in his Crummer Road studio during 1979.
Sketch of a Maori policeman. 1850.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Sketch of a Maori Policeman; l.r. in pencil: C.C. Clarke del. 4/5/50 … [illeg]; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A Maori policeman. Drawn by C.C. Clarke 4.5.50 ? T.M. Hocken; verso: New Zealand as it is; label in ink…
Sketch of Dunedin and harbour from the south, from about Fern Hill.
On original mount in ink: Reproduced from a sketch painted in 1853-54 by Capt.n The Hon.ble E.H.W. Bellairs by T.W. Eyton; on original mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Sketch of Dunedin & harbour from the S., say from about Fernhill where Cap.…
Sketch plan relating to festival of Baxter’s plays in Wellington.
Inscribed throughout. Verso reproductions of paintings.
St. Andrew: “It’s no use getting your monkey up, I am very Ca-u-tious”
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; l.c. in pencil: St. Andrew: “It’s no use getting your monkey up, I am very Ca-u-tious”; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Macandrew, whose spare hat was most useful in the case of inconvenient and…
Stage designs for [The Thieves Carnival, by Jean Anouilh] Act 1.
Lower right (l.r.) in red ballpoint pen: Act 1; verso: pencil drawing.