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Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south.
On mount below image: Okarita; on label: Okarita, Mount Cook bearing south from a sketch by W.M. Cooper; Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes.
Kororareka in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Sketched Mar 10th 1845 on the morning before the assault and destruction by Honi Heki.
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; verso in ink: Capt. King’s; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Early in the last century Kororareka was resorted to by the South Sea Whalers to refresh & refit their vessels.…
Baptism of Te Ngahue.
Letterpress below image: Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, being at Te Ariki, witnessed the baptism of this old Chief and was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made, and kindly forwarded it to the Church Missionary…
Baptism of Te Ngahue.
Letterpress below image: Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, being at Te Ariki, witnessed the baptism of this old Chief and was so much impressed by the scene that he had a drawing of it made, and kindly forwarded it to the Church Missionary…
Sketch of a Maori policeman. 1850.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Sketch of a Maori Policeman; l.r. in pencil: C.C. Clarke del. 4/5/50 … [illeg]; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A Maori policeman. Drawn by C.C. Clarke 4.5.50 ? T.M. Hocken; verso: New Zealand as it is; label in ink…
Panorama of St John’s College, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G.A. Selwyn, November 1844.
On stone: Auckland in the distance. Taurarua Point. Printing office. Washhouse. Bishop’s house. English school. Hall. Kitchen. Maori adult school. Weaving room. Surgery. Rangitoto Isle. St Thomas’s church, Tamaki. College Chapel. Maori Boys…
Landing of the first emigrants in 1848.
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 17; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The landing of the first emigrants in 1848. Captain Cargill leads the way. T.M.H.
How Otago is being settled.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: How Otago is being settled; through image in pencil: Ye diggers cutting away, Ye bullocks charging them, Ye squatters flourishing stock whip; margin left in pencil: 12; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: A…
Mr (afterwards Sir Julius) Vogel’s address to the electors. An excellent likeness.
Through image in pencil: Isaa…, M. Levy, 21; margin below in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr (afterwards Sir Julius) Vogel’s address to the electors. An excellent likeness. 1863. T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Vogel’s address to…
You cannot be admitted, you are only a retailer.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: J. Brown; margin below in pencil: You cannot be admitted, you are only a retailer; through image in pencil: Öe AlbÖ, Pleasure trip for those who are A1 at Greers; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Class distinctions…
St. Andrew: “It’s no use getting your monkey up, I am very Ca-u-tious”
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J. Brown; l.c. in pencil: St. Andrew: “It’s no use getting your monkey up, I am very Ca-u-tious”; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr Macandrew, whose spare hat was most useful in the case of inconvenient and…
Recreation on the Town Belt.
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:…
The coming man.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: J.B.; l.c. in pencil: The Coming Man; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr James Macandrew. 1852. T.M.H.
Almost the only way in the early days of reaching the Legislative Council at Auckland. Captain Cargill takes it.
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…
Diogenes -Rant, viewing with contempt, the follies of the age.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Diogenes -Rant, viewing with contempt, the follies of the age; through image in pencil: Let Otago flourish, High School, Advance Dunedin, Dunedin Saturday Review, Wormwood, Gall, Hope, the balm of life, Beggars Petition;…
Wounds may be bound up, and words forgiven, but he who betrays his friends, loses all credit. Feb 23 1861.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: JB; through image in pencil: The fate of ingratitude; margin below image in pencil: Wounds may be bound up, and words forgiven, but he who betrays his friends, loses all credit. Feb 23 1861; margin below image in ink in…
Unbending, from public cares, on public grounds.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: Unbending, from public cares, on public grounds; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Mr James Howorth, the lawyer & Crown prosecutor and Mr Alexander Rennie the tailor, teetotaller, and Provincial Councillor in the old…
Mr Mantell secures the votes of the Maoris for his friend Dr Williams by bribing them with toys.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: J. Brown 1854; u.c. in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Mr Mantell secures the votes of the Maoris for his friend Dr Williams by bribing them with toys. 1. Carnegie; 2. Mantell, Circa 1853, T.M.H.; label in ink in Dr Hockenís…
Dr Williams, a candidate for senatorial honours, is aided by his friends Mantell, Strode, Carnegie & the Maoris, - and is pelted with rotten eggs by his opponents Cap. Cargill & Cutten. Old Royal Hotel in the distance.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Sub T…asury; u.r. in pencil: Rotten; u.l. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Dr Williams, a candidate for senatorial honours, is aided by his friends Mantell, Strode, Carnegie & the Maoris, - and is pelted with rotten eggs…
Captain Cargill confers the Commissionership of Crown Lands on his son-in-law, Mr W.H.Cutten.
Lower centre (l.c.) in pencil: J. Brown, 1856; through image in pencil: Provincial Secretary, Commissioner of Crown Lands, New Zealand; margin below.
Dunedin from Little Paisley.
This small watercolour of Dunedin from Little Paisley was painted by Edward Immyns Abbot in 1849. The work was acquired by Dr T.M. Hocken who described the artist as ‘a young surveyor of superior abilities’. The surveyor’s role was to record…
In time of some scarcity of food the Rev. Thomas Burns was applied to to sell flour from his farm at Grant’s Braes.
Upper left (u.l.) in pencil: 14; through image in pencil: 20s per Bushel; l.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: In time of some scarcity of food the Rev. Thomas Burns was applied to to sell flour from his farm at Grant’s Braes. (now) He refers…
Messrs Vogel and J.G.S. Grant run for the Waikouaiti seat.
Through image in pencil: To Waikouaiti, The Jews Harp, Discord; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Messrs Vogel and J.G.S. Grant run for the Waikouaiti seat. 1863. T.M.H.; verso in ink: Dunedin, 20 April 1864, Mr James Tinley.
Sold again and got no money.
Through image on stone: JB; To England, S.E.R.J., Bankruptcy, Gas Comp. Transfer Shares; through image in ink: 1. 2. 3. 4; u.c. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: 1. Shadrach Edward Robert Jones of the Provincial Hotel, Dunedin, a smart rogue & bankrupt.…