On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: IV Government House, Auckland, showing the north head of Waitemata Harbour. Back view of Government house. The North Shore & Rangitoto are in the distance. Mr William Mason, afterwards the first Mayor of…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Hospital; on sketchbook mount: Government Hospital, Auckland. 1849; 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…
Verso in pencil: Supposed to be taken from Barstow Hall [pencil sketch of house & hills]; in ink: 25; on mount in ink: The cemetery at Auckland; in pencil: Graves of Commodore Burnett H.M.S. Orpheus. Captain Mercer C. Batty 4B de RA