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Sketch of Ruby Bay house.
Titled by donor.
Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’47; verso in pencil: Marge in the Maitai Valley, Nelson.
Ruby Bay.
07 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "Left. Ruby Bay. c. 8 x 10 1/5 1936."
Wharf, Onekaka, Nelson.
Lower left (l.l.) in ballpoint pen: D. Lusk 1966; verso: Holland 2 30
Onekaka Estuary.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink over ballpoint pen: D. Lusk 70; l.l. in ballpoint pen: 6.
Wharf, Onekaka, Nelson (hightide).
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: D. Lusk 1966; verso mount: Wharf, Onekaka, Nelson (hightide). Doris Lusk 1966 Jan
Westhaven Inlet, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) in ballpoint pen: D. Lusk 1966; verso mount: Westhaven Inlet, Nelson Jan 1966 Doris Lusk
Mr Tuckett’s house, Nelson. November 9 1843.
Lower centre (l.c.) - l.r. in pencil: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; u.r. in pencil: 7; l.c. - l.r. in umber ink: Mr Tucketts house Nelson Nov 9 1843; verso in pencil: [unfinished sketch of tree]
Landscape Marahau.
17 in The Jack & Ethel McCahon gift to the Hocken LibraryMcCahon writes: "The chestnut grove, Mahau Sound oil c. 14 1/2 x 20 1/2. Signed & dated Colin McCahon '44 but suggest date is wrong & should be rather earlier (ask R.E. Kennedy) A Cezanne…
Maitai Valley landscape.
Upper right (u.r.): McCahon 47; verso original card in ink: oil, Maitai Valley landscape. Not for sale. C. McCahon; in pencil: 2… BW dk cream close up no glass, Mr Brasch, 11a Smith St; [& unfinished oil painting of male nude, acc 89/92] Separated…
Onekaka Estuary.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: D. Lusk 1966; verso frame: Oil sketch Onekaka Estuary Doris Lusk Jan. 1966; verso in another hand: Hocken Library; stamp: A.S. Hall
Notornis mantelli. 1898-99
Lower centre (l.c.) with brush: E.M.H. 1898; l.r. with brush: E.M.H. 1899; stamp verso: Windsor & Newton watercolour sketching boards Not surface… England.
View of Nelson Haven, in Tasman’s Gulf, New Zealand; including a part of the site of the intended town of Nelson.
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
Nelson from the gaol.
Margin below image l. - r. in iron gall ink: Charles Heaphy. Nelson from the Gaol 1859. CH [monogram]; u.l. in pencil: 2 1/2 x 5 1/2.
Allington, in the Waimea Plain, Nelson. The farm of George Duppa Esq.
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.…
Nelson.
Verso u.l. in ink: 8; on sketchbook mount: Nelson 1848. View from windows of house in previous page; verso original mount in ink: Allington Waimea S. Geo. Duppa’s; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir…
Teraumai or the Mangles Valley.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Teraumai or the Mangles Valley; verso in pencil: 19; superimposed in ink: 21; on sketchbook mount in ink: The Teramea Plain. 1847. with Brunner; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox.…
Croixilles Harbour from the North End.
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…
Lake Arthur, Nelson.
Note by Dr B.H. Howard that Fox explored the area in February 1846, not 1847.
Nelson. Rocks in Blind Bay, near Motueka about 1846.
Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Position of this feature is on the west side of Tasman Bay between the mouth of the Riwaka River and Stephens Bay, a little to the south of Kaitriteri. Map Reference- NZMS 14 Grid 386565. After investigating the whole of this…
W. Fox’s House, Nelson.
Verso: 7; on sketchbook mount in ink: W. Fox’s House, Nelson. 1848; in purple pencil; Same house as on opposite house with additions; verso mount: Blind Bay. Nelson. View from W. Fox’s house 1847 [4,274/32]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink:…
Riwaka, Nelson.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Riwaka
Riwaka Valley. Nelson.
Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Riwaka Valley. Fox’s viewpoint was on the hillside above Goodall’s farm at the end of the Dehra Doon Road on the south side of the valley near the site on which surveyor Stephen’s house stood. Grid reference,…
Temai at its junction with Teraumai.
Fox explored the area in February of 1846.