G.H. Brown writes: McCahon described this work to me as 'a sort of Gate', & laughingly said that the title could be Abstract: Gate, but whether that is accurate enough to use as a generic title for the complete set, to which this work belongs, seems…
Through image in pencil: [colour notes]; verso in pencil: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1859 … [illeg]; on sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1858; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir…
Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Duppa's Allington. The house has long since disappeared, but the name is still used by the present. The site is on the Highway from Nelson to the Buller just before it crosses the Wairoa River. national Highway No 6.…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Almost the only way in the early days of reaching the Legislative Council at Auckland. Captain Cargill takes it. Circa 1854. T.M.H.; on label in ink: The only way in the early days of reaching the…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: Poetry Bill Manhire Design Ralph Hotere; u.l. in ink: Music Jack Body Barry Morgan; vertically l: Dance John Casserley Chas Hummel Knut Sulnadji; verso: [reproduction of Ian Wedde’s Pathway to the Sea by RH; verso in ink:…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1848; on mount in ink: Arabs of mixed race. Barrahk of Zanzibar, Furham of Zanzibar, Bashier of Muscat; through image in pencil: Barrahk of Zanzibar, Furham of Zanzibar, Bashier Tanzibar …[illeg] Muscat