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A succinct account of the adventures of Mr William Adams.
William Adams (1564-1620) was the first Englishman to reach Japan, arriving on a Dutch ship at Bungo (a principality containing present day Usuki City) in May 1600. After a summons by the Emperor at Osaka, imprisonment and interrogation, he was…
View looking north from Mt Iron, Wanaka.
About 1865 Nicholas Chevalier visited New Zealand with his wife and went on a tour of the lakes and mountains of Otago.
NS200: Brainstem ventral surface.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Brain Stem (Ventral Surface)
Indiae orientalis ... .
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great…
Te Rauparaha. June 1845.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: E Abbot del.t, June 1845; superimposed in ink: E Abbott June 1845; l.c. in ink superimposed over pencil: Te Rauparaha
Dunedin from Little Paisley.
This small watercolour of Dunedin from Little Paisley was painted by Edward Immyns Abbot in 1849. The work was acquired by Dr T.M. Hocken who described the artist as ‘a young surveyor of superior abilities’. The surveyor’s role was to record…
Panorama of St John’s College, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G.A. Selwyn, November 1844.
On stone: Auckland in the distance. Taurarua Point. Printing office. Washhouse. Bishop’s house. English school. Hall. Kitchen. Maori adult school. Weaving room. Surgery. Rangitoto Isle. St Thomas’s church, Tamaki. College Chapel. Maori Boys…
View in the Eastern side of the Imperial Park at Gehol.
"The Emperor having been informed that, in the course of our travels in China we had shown a strong desire of seeing every thing curious and interesting, was pleased to give directions to the first minister to shew us his park or garden at Gehol. It…
Playing at Shuttlecock with the feet.
"Near to the afflux of the Tchang-ho with the Cha-ho, river of floodgates, or imperial canal, is a splendid octagonal pagoda : it consists of nine stories, adorned with projecting eves, and it tapers with a remarkably gradual and graceful…
Boudoir and Bed-chamber of a Lady of rank.
"Less crowded with articles of furniture than the apartments of ladies of quality in England, the decorations of a bedchamber and boudoir in China are not less costly or complete - a suite of rooms being appropriated to the females of the mandarin's…
Raree-Show at Lin-Sin-Chow.
"The spectators and auditors at the raree-show in Lin-sin-choo belong to the industrious and humbler classes" (Allom, c.1842, v. I, p. 48).
Scene from the Spectacle of "The Sun and Moon".
"One of the most favourite mysteries presented by the strolling companies in the southern provinces, is "The Spectacle of the Sun and Moon" (Allom, 1842, v II, p. 28).
Pepepe Church Missionary station. On the Waikato River New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) on plate: FA [monogram]; 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…
Scene in a New Zealand Forest. Near Waipa.
Lower centre (l.c.) on plate: FA [monogram]; 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…
Entrance to the Valley of the Wairau from Cloudy Bay, New Zealand.
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…
Poahu and E Koti. Two lads of Poverty Bay. Children of Te Pakaru, the principal chief of Kaiohia.
On original mount in ink: New Zealanders.
Weeping over a deceased chief.
Below image c. - r. erased: Brighter want of sunshine brilliance.
Untitled.
Verso in ink: Greetings & a happy New Year from Rita
Evening, Thorndon.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus
At sea.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus.
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…