While Boswell's impressive volume is more historical and topographical than Gilpin or Combe, his title reveals the emphasis readers and publishers placed on the 'views'. The 'pleasing effect' of St. Michael's Mount and its 'agreeable' situation with…
A photograph of Emily Siedeberg-McKinnon M.B, Ch. B (1873-1968). This image is included in a scrapbook alongside the letter she wrote to the Chancellor of the University of Otago in 1891. The letter was written as a request for entry into the…
Verso in ink: No 3 Encampment in the valley of Wiararapa - evening of Thursday May 4th 1843; on sketchbook mount in ink: In the Wairarapa Valley. 1843; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who…
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Engagement at Okutuku; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sketch of the second attack on Otukutu, 7th Nov. 1868, drawn by a soldier who was present. The fight, which took place about 8 miles east of Patea, is sometimes…