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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…

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Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Mr Bounce in a dog skin cloak. W.F. Massacre Bay 1847; on sketchbook mount: Native haranguing. Massacre Bay. 1847; in pencil: Now Golden Bay; verso u.r.: 49 56 [pencil sketch]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas…

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Verso: 54; on sketchbook mount in ink: Costumes 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 at my house, promised to…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Hodgkins; label: Bourlet & Son, London; label: City of Manchester Art Gallery 15137; label: Double Portrait by Frances Hodgkins lent by Jane Saunders, 12 Victoria Rd Fallow Weld, Manchester; label: Isle of Purbeck Arts…

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Lower right (l.r.) with brush: NH 95 [monogram]; verso: NH 95 [monogram]

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With brush: [title] Painted by John Irvine from a photograph six years before his death

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19 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken Library. McCahon writes: "Doris Lusk. Portrait of C. McC. oil Unsigned & untitled. Late 30s in her Dunedin studio.Above U.F.S. Dispensary opposit City Hotel. c. 17 x 14 Blue Harris tweed coat by H.B.…

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Verso composite board backing in felt pen, artist’s hand: Return to Otago. Sept. 1987. Doris Lusk. Oil on canvas; label verso in ballpoint pen, inscribed for donor by Noel Ginn: Return to Dunedin. Series of Doris Lusk paintings. Portrait of Anne…

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Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]

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Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on mount with brush: One of New Zealand’s best known and most successful bowlers of all time. Arthur Hadfield Fisher, 1871-1961. Presented to Carisbrook Cricket Club by Thomas Richmond Fisher.

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; on stretcher in pencil: Dr Skinner, Director Otago Museum, King St, Dunedin

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Verso mount in blue ink: This portrait of Nellie Martha Ross (later Mrs Andrew Jensen) was painted by her father, Thomas Ross, & by Senor Nerli, together at Ravensbourne. She was 14 years old at the time. This would be about 1896. The same two men…

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Lower left (l.l.) with brush: J. Smetham 1863; on frame: The New Zealand chiefs in Wesley's house. James Smetham 1863.

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Lower right (l.r.) with brush: J Tensfeld 1868[?3]; verso mount: I-8753; label: Reed & Co, 49 Collins St., East Melbourne

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: A Mintera of Salangore, Malay Peninsula; through image in pencil: A Mintera woman Salangore, Malay Peninsula

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Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: Bugis of Waju, Celebes; through image in pencil: Bugis of Waju, Celebes

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Lower left (l.l.) each image with brush: JTT 1879; on mount in pencil: J.T. Thomson Del.t 1879.Three Otago worthies: His Honour Captain Cargill; Sir John Richardson; Rev.d Dr Burns, D.D.

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Attributed to Girolamo Pieri Nerli, 1860-1926.

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A rare 1880s illustration on pith-paper of a scene in the Chinese Royal household.
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