On original mount in ink: Reproduced from a watercolour sketch painted in 1853-54 by Capt.n the Hon.ble E.H.W. Bellairs by T.W. Eyton; on original mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Cannot recognise this locality. T.M. Hocken.
On original mount in ink: Reproduced from a sketch painted in 1853-54 by Capt.n The Hon.ble E.H.W. Bellairs by T.W. Eyton; on original mount in ink in Dr Hockenís hand: Sketch of Dunedin & harbour from the S., say from about Fernhill where Cap.…
Verso in ink over pencil: View of Wilsons house Remuera, taken from the lawn tennis paddock. M.E April unfinished; recto mount in pencil: View of Wilson’s house. Remuera; verso mount in pencil: [title] M. E(lwe?) April unfinished
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: T.M. Hocken; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Edmund Storr Halswell, B.A. of Cambridge, a barrister & elected F.R.S. in April 1834 was appointed by the NZ Company in 1840 Commissioner for the Management of Lands reserved…
Through image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: [numerals]; margin below image in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Port Hills, Worcester Stret, Oxford Terrace, Land Office Bridge, first bridge in Christchurch, Dr Barker’s house, known as the Black house,…
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Admiral Lord Edward Hawke, 1705-1781. First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Capt Cook named Hawke’s Bay. T.M. Hocken.
Label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: John Montagu fourth Earl of Sandwich, 1718-92, First Lord of the Admiralty, after whom Cook called the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Island. T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki.
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.
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: John Buchanan; l.r. in ink: Otago Harbour, Portobello [sic] bay; verso: Inside the Heads, Otago Harbour, from Capt. Ridley’s, Portobella [sic] bay. April 1859 J.B.
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…