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Upper right (u.r.) in capitals: McCahon Jan ’65.

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Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: D. Lusk 1969

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Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus; verso: 17 Tree

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In 1844, Evariste Régis Huc (1813-1860), a French Lazarist missionary, was ordered to explore the area surrounding the mission at Si-Wang (Hsi-wan-tse), about 200 kilometres to the northwest of Peking (Beijing). He and his companion, Joseph Gabet,…

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Painting of Stevenson’s dredge reclaiming the Dunedin foreshore, 1868. Logan Point in background.

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Margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Town of Lyttelton March 1851 T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; note by W. Holmes transcribed in ink by Dr Hocken: VII. College Wood. 1600 feet high. Direction of Bridle Road. Lyttelton…

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This and 11,918 are part of the same panorama but linking section is missing.

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1853; on mount in ink: Town of Aden from the Pass

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Lower left (l.l.): [title]; l.r.: McCahon Jan 54

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Chirimen books are thought to have been invented in August 1885, when a Japanese fairy tale series was published by Hasegawa Takejiro (1853-1936). The books were illustrated by Sensei Eitaku. Thirty-one popular Japanese folktales were translated…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Tombstone, Bamborough Churchyard. 1 Mar 1878

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1853 1853; on mount in ink: Tombs in the suburbs of, Cairo

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"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…

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In 1867, the last shōgun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, resigned and the Emperor, Mutsuhito, regained the position of actual head of government. Mutsuhito took the name Meiji ('enlightened government') to designate his reign and this became his imperial…

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Centre (c.) in pencil: Toi-Toi (or any other man) or woman; l.l. - l.r. in pencil: Defence force Taranaki. 12 stone 30 June 64; verso: [pencil sketch inscribed: Mahoetai - 20 June]

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: D. Lusk 41; verso in white paint superimposed over pencil: Tobacco fields, Nelson, N.Z. Doris Lusk 25 Ross St Dunedin; verso in pink crayon: C Brasch Dunedin; label: 20

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1878; on mount in pencil: Toad Hole, Bamborough Castle. 22 mar 78

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: JTT 1881; label recto: Titiroa River. 1881; on canvas verso: Titiroa River. 1881; label verso: T.T. Thomson for exhibition only

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Lower left (l.l.): McCahon May ’ 57, Aug Sept 1, Titirangi; l.r. Winter.

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10 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Untitled but North Otago. gouache 20 x 28 Signed etc McCahon 51 lower left. There are a number of these. The best (an oil) owned by Miss Jean Horsley, now in England. The…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J.T.T. 1877; on mount in pencil: Timaru Downs. 29 Jany. 1877

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"Cixi huang hou yu bi zhi bao" are the words of the seal of the Empress Dowager Tsze Hsi. This seal was used to confirm authorship of documents written by her.
'My design is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall…
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