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Nuremburg Chronicle
The Nuremburg Chronicle is an illustrated world history, and an important example of early printing. The work concerns human history as related in the Bible, but also includes the history of a number of European cities. Although Hartmann Schedel…
Tree.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus; verso: 17 Tree
Wellington in 1843.
On sketchbook mount: Wellington in 1843; 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…
Out in the open wear Summer Breeze.
Lantern slide used for cinema advertising.
Bodleian identifier, MS Fairfax 16
MS Fairfax 16 is an anthology of short poems popular in fifteenth-century England. What is emphasised in collections like this is the themes and styles of courtly love poetry; almost entirely ignored is the authorship of the works. Even works we know…
Pink and White Terraces, Lake Rotomahana and Mount Tarawera.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush in opaque white: J.C. Hoyte
W. B. D. Mantell, Names of the hapu of the Kai Tahu tribe
In 1848 Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell was appointed to the office of commissioner for extinguishing native titles in the South Island. Mantell used this collection of cardboard labels to represent the inter-relationships of the hapu of the Otago…
Near Roxburgh, Central Otago.
Verso upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 1 Near Roxburgh Central Otago Doris Lusk N.F.S. Grease crayon and ink.
University of Otago graduates of 1887.
A photograph of the ten students who graduated from the University of Otago in 1887. Standing: M.I. Fraser, G.A. Simers, M.A. Ferguson, W.E. Spencer. Sitting: J.R. Montgomery, F.M. Allen, X. Forbes, F.B. Allen, J.R. Don, C. Little.
Fox and the grapes, hang it!, I don't want it.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Bn; through image with brush: Superintendent; l.c. with brush: The fox and the grapes, hang it!, I dont want it.
