Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Preliminary drawings for Black Paintings. Hotere; through image in pencil: [numerals]; verso in ink: [unfinished sketch].
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.l. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Princes St Auckland N.Z. circa 1845 (copied from a sketch by an officer who fought in Hekeís war) T.M. Hocken; through image in ink: Woods Hotel. Passage leading to Surveyor…
Margin below image in pencil: Rangiriri 19th Sep. 64 from Armitage’s; margin above image in pencil: Rangiriri on the Waikato. Capt. Mercer killed in action 1863 died from his wound a few days after at Queen’s Redoubt; margin below image in iron…
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Recreation on the Town Belt; through image in ink: 1. 2. 4; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: The manner of man in the early days. 1. Mr John McGlashan; 2. Mr W.H.Cutten; 3. Dr Purdie, Circa 1858, T.M.H.;label in ink:…
Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: Crown dom…tion. Gravel and sand; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to Mr W.B. Mantell’s moa bone discoveries. The gravel and sand bag bespeak him a geologist. T.M.H.; label in ink: Refers to Mr Mantell’s…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; through image in pencil: Superintendency, Separation, Otago Province, Mataura; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Refers to the disastrous separation of Southland from the Province of Otago of which it formed…
On mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Rev. J.A. Fenton’s house, Dunedin. 1850. On site of Boys’ High School boarding house and adjoining Littlebourne house. House purchased from Robertson the grocer. Built about 1850 by Mr Tho.s [crossed out]…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: D. Lusk 1979; verso mount in ink: Rodney Kennedy with “Vicarage Bed”, painting by Anne Hamblett (circa 1937) McCahon. Doris Lusk. June 1979. w/colour pencil; in pencil unknown hand: Please leave attached. Holland;…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: RTR [monogram first R reversed] pinx 7/11/76; l.r. in ink: phot. 1858; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Royal Hotel, Dunedin. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; verso mount in ink: First hotel in Dunedin.…