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Auckland.
Verso in pencil: Auckland 1849 40 46 … [illeg]; on sketchbook mount in ink: Auckland 1849; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir Wm Fox; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew…
Dunedin looking down the line of Stafford Street.
Verso c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: An unfinished copy from no 1. Done by Robert Fulton in 1849 & given to me by his brother James Fulton in 1894. Dunedin looking down the line of Stafford St. Very similar to Kettle’s View of Dunedin & Upper…
New Plymouth. The old N.Z. Company’s office, Courtenay Street. 1848.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: T.G. May 1848; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: New Plymouth. The old N.Z. Co’s office, Courtenay S.t, brought out from England in 1840 - afterwards the Land & Survey office. Pukaka Pa (Marsland Hill) is shown to…
City of Dunedin. 1864.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: W. Handcock; label: City of Dunedin by W. Handcock, D.cr 1864; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: W. Handcock was the first drawing master of the Boys’ High School. His watercolour is very accurate. By the old…
Nelson from the gaol.
Margin below image l. - r. in iron gall ink: Charles Heaphy. Nelson from the Gaol 1859. CH [monogram]; u.l. in pencil: 2 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Royal Hotel, Dunedin.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: RTR [monogram first R reversed] pinx 7/11/76; l.r. in ink: phot. 1858; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Royal Hotel, Dunedin. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; verso mount in ink: First hotel in Dunedin.…
View from Tinakori Road.
"In the 1960s Wellington's long settled inner suburb of Thorndon was threatened by the proposed construction of a motorway through it. Old houses were pulled down and Wellington's first cemetery was demolished." "When plans for an extension to the…
Wellington in 1843.
On sketchbook mount: Wellington in 1843; 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 at my house, promised to bequeath me…