On mount below image: Okarita; on label: Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south from a sketch by W.M. Cooper; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: On Lake Arthur, Roto Iti; on sketchbook mount: Lake Arthur (Roto-iti) Nelson 1847; verso mount: 3; verso mount vertically in ink: …ai Falls …a Nelson 1847; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir…
On sketchbook mount in ink: On the Nghauranga Road, Well.n 1857 [now attached to On the Ohario Rd]; 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 &…
on sketchbook mount in ink: On the Porirua Road near Crofton 1857; on mount in pencil: Crofton. Now Ngaio, suburb of Wellington; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I…
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: On the Sumner Road, Canterbury, NZ. W Fox Jan.y 1851; on sketchbook mount: On the Sumner Road, Canterbury 1851; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew…
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.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Colin McCahon 41; verso with brush: Otago Harbour Colin McCahon 1941; verso in ink: oil on gesso 25 gns; verso in ink: 24 Prestwick St, Maori Hill, Dunedin; verso in ballpoint pen: 15gns; verso in pencil: 30 green…
Margin u.r. in pencil: 1947; margin l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon; on mount: Rodney, I promised you these quite some time ago as they really belong with your painting. I don’t think they are of particular value as works of art but possibly are of…