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[A country scene.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: I. Field 08; label … Country … [illeg] Mrs W.H. Field
[Bush scene with stream. n.d.]
Attributed to William Mein Smith
[Dunedin 1862, taken from the descent of Graham into McLaggan Street, down which the picture looks.]
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.
[Hills.]
Lower right (l.r.) in brown ink: D. Lusk 1969; verso in pencil: 1391
[Landscape 19.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Woollaston; l.l. mount in pencil: 19; l.r. mount in pencil: £2.2.; verso mount: [sketch of woman leaning against a chair]
[Landscape, Wakefields’ shed and Drum Duan.]
Lower right (l.r.) in crayon: Woollaston; verso in pencil: Landscape - Wakefields’ shed and Drum Duan
[Landscape, Wakefields’ shed. 2.]
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: Woollaston 1940?; verso: [sketch 86/1]
[Landscape, Wakefields’ shed. 3.]
verso: [unfinished pencil sketch]
[Landscape, Wakefields’ shed. 4.]
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: [unfinished sketch of man]
[Mount Cook and the Tasman glacier viewed from the Tasman river flat].
Pencil & watercolour sketches of scenes mainly of Dunedin & environs, Bay of Islands & Central Otago. Acknowledged Hocken Library Associate Membership Bulletin, no 1, October 1954.
[Mountain and valley.]
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 3 [?] 9 [?]
[Shed.]
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 5; verso in pencil: [sketch of landscape 78/258 b]
[View across Tasman Bay.]
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1
[View of the Otago Harbour. 1866].
Acknowledged Hocken Library Associate Membership Bulletin, no 1, October 1954. Same view as the O’Brien, likely to have been painted coincidently
4 o’clock p.m. 23.9.69
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 4 o’clock pm 23/9/69; verso in fibre tipped pen: [framing instructions]
4YA Highcliff, Otago Peninsula.
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.
8 a.m. a winter’s morning. Buggins’s Clearing - Taranaki.
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…
A sketch of the Maoris’ position at Maungatautau on the Waikato River.
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]
A view of Fusy-yama : from a Japanese drawing.
"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).
Abbey St Bathan’s House, Berwickshire, Scotland 1878.
Lower left (l.l.) incised: J.T. Thomson 1873; on canvas verso: Abbey St Bathan’s House, Berwickshire, Scotland 1878
Ahiaruhi.
Removed from sketchbook 1968.
Akaroa.
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…