Margin below image on stone: This church, which is 80 feet long, 36 feet broad and 40 feet high, has been erected by the voluntary labour of the Maories, under the superintendence of Archdeacon Hadfield and the Rev. H. Williams. The timber for the…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Born at Nottingham, Feb. 11th 1792. Entered the Royal Navy in 1806, serving in various successiv vessels, taking part in the last naval engagement of the American war - that…
On label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The Rev. John superintending the landing of the missionary, the Rev Charles Creed and his wife at Taranaki (NgaMotu) January 14th 1849. R. Wesleyan Missionary Notices, No 73 - Jan 1845 (T.M.H.) Mr Creed was…
On label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Rev. John Williams (1796-1839) of the London Missionary Society. Founder of the Samoan & other missions. “The martyr of Erromanga” one of the New Hebrides group. Murdered by the natives, Nov.r 20th 1839 at…
On label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Johann Reinhold Forster, L.L.D, F.R.S., F.A.S. 1729-1798. Johann Georg Adam Forster, M.D., 1754-1794. Father & son. Accompanied Cook on his second voyage. Conjointly wrote Observations &c on the voyage & its…
Dessiné par L. Le Breton. Lith.é par P. Blanchard. Lith de Thierry frères Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 181 [1846]
From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: John Buchanan; l.r. in ink: Otago Harbour, Portobello [sic] bay; verso: Inside the Heads, Otago Harbour, from Capt. Ridley’s, Portobella [sic] bay. April 1859 J.B.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Sketch of a Maori Policeman; l.r. in pencil: C.C. Clarke del. 4/5/50 … [illeg]; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A Maori policeman. Drawn by C.C. Clarke 4.5.50 ? T.M. Hocken; verso: New Zealand as it is; label in ink…
Letterpress below image: Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, being at Te Ariki, witnessed the baptism of this old Chief and was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made, and kindly forwarded it to the Church Missionary…
Letterpress below image: Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, being at Te Ariki, witnessed the baptism of this old Chief and was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made, and kindly forwarded it to the Church Missionary…
On mount below image: Okarita; on label: Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south from a sketch by W.M. Cooper; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes.