Upper centre (u.c.) in pencil: 6; verso l.l. in ink: Croixilles Harbour from the North End W. Fox March 4th 1845; on sketchbook mount in pencil: Croixilles Harbour, Blind Bay 1845 (now Tasman Bay); on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Johann Reinhold Forster 1729-1798. Naturalist, with his son on Cook’s second expedition, described the natural history of the voyage. The genus Forstera is named after him. T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena…
22 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Colin McCahon. on left. Durville island taken from Ruby bay. initialled C.M. lower l. c. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. crayon".