Lower left (l.l.) with brush: View of Otago Heads, Port Chalmers, Mount Cargill & Blueskin from the Portobello Road - six miles from Dunedin, sketched from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer &c 1866
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: View of Otago Heads and Port Chalmers from Signal Hill near Dunedin from a sketch from nature by George O’Brien, Civil Engineer.
A: vertically right in crayon: Victory Beach; verso: [reverse image in pencil]; b: l.l. - l.r. in crayon & wax crayon: Aue Victory Aue; verso: [reverse image in pencil]; c.: l.l. - l.r. in crayon & wax crayon: Aue Victory Aue; verso: [reverse image in pencil]; d: l.l. - l.r. in crayon: Victory Beach; verso: [reverse image in pencil]; e: l.l. - l.r. in crayon & wax crayon: Victory Beach; verso: [reverse image in pencil]
Extent
5 sheets of paper: a: 460 x 305 mm (perf top); image: 285 x 160 mm (irreg); b: 460 x 305 mm (perf top); image: 265 x 170 mm (irreg; c: 408 x 305 mm (perf top); image: 230 x 150 mm (irreg); d: 306 x 230 mm (perf top); image: 246 x 162 mm (irreg); e: 306 x 230 mm (perf top); image: 266 x 185 mm (irreg)
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.
Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand. South. Looking north. Looking down the harbour. 1865 Dunedin. [Harbour and foreshore. ca 18?50] Dunedin in 1865. [Unidentified view of harbour.] From Fox sketchbook.
Verso a in ink: Dunedin City Otago New Zealand 1865; on sketchbook mount a in ink, & b in pencil: Dunedin in 1865; on sketchbook mount of c in pencil (library hand): (Unidentified view of a harbour) Dunedin?; 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 these sketches which he commenced to take from the time of his arrival in New Zealand in 1842.
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 Harbour from Stafford Street. For details see my book on the Early history of Otago. T.M. Hocken.; 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 these sketches which he commenced to take from the time of his arrival in New Zealand in 1842.
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: W. Handcock S.R.A. M.ch 64; on original mount in pencil: Quarantine Island, south P.t Chalmers & the blueskin road from the back bay of Port a Bello; paper maker’s chop: London Board
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 Hamblett for Hocken Library.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape with lamp by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. 4YA. 4ZB. Highcliff by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Mount Charles by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Drawing for the Fleischl picture by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon; c.l. in pencil: Peninsula. Little Harbour Cone & sandspit across Papanui Inlet; l.r. in pencil: drawing for the Fleischl picture.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Otago Peninsular landscape by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Saddle Hill by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. From Portobello? by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. For R. Kennedy landscape by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: for Rodney Kennedy’s landscape; c.r. in pencil: missing drawing from this sheet with R.N. O’Reilly; inscribed through image in blue & black ink: artist’s notes; verso: fragment of painting.
Contributor
O'Reilly, R. N. (Ronald Norris), 1914-1982 (Photographer)
Format
Working drawings
Extent
83 x 188 mm (on board: 268 x 255 mm (irreg) to which are attached 3 photographs taken by Ron O
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone, Observatory. Ravensbourne Wharf by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Harbour Cone by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.
Working drawings for three paintings of the Otago Peninsula. Peninsula landscape with Harbour Cone by Colin McCahon.
Reproduction permission courtesy of the Colin McCahon Research and Publication Trust.