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The most noble and famous travels of Marco Polo [title page of the first edition].
At the age of seventeen, the Venetian Marco Polo (1254-1324) travelled with his merchant father, Nicolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, to the court of Kublai Khan. Polo was away from Venice for twenty-four years. His account of his travels and of the Peking…
Regulations to be observed on board the emigrant ships of the New Zealand Company poster
Note in ink in Dr Hocken's hand at top: These comprehensive regulations vary slightly from those in the adjoining frame. Mr Bridges, the secretary of the Plymouth Board, succeeded Mr H.S. Chapman (afterwards Judge C.) in 1843 as editor of the 'New…
Free emigration to New Zealand poster
Note in ink in Dr Hocken's hand on bottom left corner: Though the N.Z. Company in 184[?] set up an influential committee in Dublin including the Lord Mayor, Archbishop Whateley, and the Provost of Trinity College but little Irish emigration left for…
Portrait of Nellie Martha Ross.
Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men…
Portrait of a young woman artist.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]
[Portrait of W.M. Hodgkins.]
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on stretcher in pencil: Dr Skinner, Director Otago Museum, King St, Dunedin
St Clair beach, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in red paint: G.P. [ligated, vertical] Nerli; label: St Clair Beach, Dunedin, N.Z. [undated press clipping about Nerli]; label: Fisher & Son, Christchurch; label: 146
Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on mount with brush: One of New Zealand’s best known and most successful bowlers of all time. Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961. Presented to Carisbrook Cricket Club by Thomas Richmond Fisher.
Street scene.
Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.
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.