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Garden of the temple at lewchew.
"About this period a mutual friendship began to exist between us; confidence took place of timidity; and now, instead of permitting only a few to visit the shore at a time, they fitted up the garden of a temple as a sort of general arsenal for us;…
[Edmund Halswell, M.A., F.R.S. N.Z. Company’s Lands Commissioner.]
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Edmund Storr Halswell, B.A. of Cambridge, a barrister & elected F.R.S. in April 1834 was appointed by the NZ Company in 1840 Commissioner for the Management of Lands reserved…
Momotaro.
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…
Tongue cut sparrow.
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…
The Matsuyama Mirror.
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…
The serpent with eight heads.
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…
View of Wilson’s house Remuera, taken from the lawn tennis paddock.
Verso in ink over pencil: View of Wilsons house Remuera, taken from the lawn tennis paddock. M.E April unfinished; recto mount in pencil: View of Wilson’s house. Remuera; verso mount in pencil: [title] M. E(lwe?) April unfinished
Rata (leaf fine) - nikau palm at Foot
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: fine leaves rata; verso in pencil: Rata (leaf fine) - nikau palm at foot; verso mount: [title]
Brighton, Otago. Drawn by S.F. Every. 1864.
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Brighton. S.F. Every fecit, 1864.
Margin below image c. - r. in ink: Brighton T.M. Hocken.
Anderson’s Bay. Drawn by S.F. Every. 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Approach to Brighton from Dunedin. Drawn by S.F. Every, Aug.t 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Brighton bathing places. Drawn by S.F. Every 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Brighton, Otago. Drawn by S.F. Every. 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Brighton. S.F. Every fecit, 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken.
Anderson’s Bay. Drawn by S.F. Every. 1864
Margin below image l.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken; verso in pencil: J.H. Ewer.
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
Pianta di Roma del 1676
1 map in 12 sections ; 148 x 145 cm., sections each 37 x 48 cm. + explanatory book (10 p. ; 43 cm.)
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
Scala di mille passi che fanno in miglio Italiano.
In case with title: La pianta di Roma del 1676.
Facsimile reprint of 1676 edition.
Inset:…
[A country scene.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: I. Field 08; label … Country … [illeg] Mrs W.H. Field
Tomahawk.
"[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…
Charlton Edgar.
Lower right (l.r.) with pen & ink: R.N.Field
Interior.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: R.N. Field, 28. verso: landscape in oils.
Kawatau River at the junction of the Rangitikei River.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Kawatau river at the junction of the Rangitikei river