Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: R.S. Kelly; on old mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dunedin 1862, taken from the descent of Graham into McLaggan Street, down which the picture looks. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Pencil & watercolour sketches of scenes mainly of Dunedin & environs, Bay of Islands & Central Otago. Acknowledged Hocken Library Associate Membership Bulletin, no 1, October 1954.
05 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "on right. 4YA. Highcliffe [sic] Otago Peninsular [sic] c. 9 x 11 1/2. (Varnished with theatrical spirit gum (for sliding on boards etc) C.McC" Dated by Luit Bieringa.
Lower left (l.l.) - lower right (l.r.) in pencil: 8 a.m. a winter’s morning. Buggins’s Clearing - Taranaki. July 1864. Burnt by natives; verso in ink: Ellen J. Burnside; on mount in pencil: This is meant for a view of mount Egmont on a fine…
Upper left (u.l.) - upper right (u.r.) in ink: A sketch of the Maoris’ position at Maungatautau on the Waikato River; l.l. in ink: the figures are supposed to be 1,000 yards from the main pah [location notes]; verso: [fragment of letter]
"Towering over all in the western distance, but too often concealed by clouds, the majestic Fusi-yama reared its conical summit" (Oliphant, 1859, v. II, p. 97).
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Akaroa; on sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa 1850; 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…