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North Otago Landscape From folio of twelve multiples. Mervyn Williams. Barry Lett Galleries.
Published by Barry Lett Galeries as part of a set of 12 multiples.
Mount Barron, Otira.
Margin below image in blue ink: M.T. Woollaston; on mount below image in blue ink: M.t Barron, Otira; on mount alongside image in blue ink: greetings to you all from Edith, Philip, Toss - the others not at home to include theirs
Mouillage d’Otago (Nouvelle Zélande).
Dessiné par L. Le Breton. Lith.é par P. Blanchard. Lith de Thierry frères Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 181 [1846]
Modus Scribendi.
"The Society of Jesus was founded in 1539 by St Ignatius of Loyola. From their base at Goa, India, the Jesuits ventured forth to Japan and China: their goal to spread Christianity and promote the work of the Society. Over the years, their written…
Map of Laputa and Luggnag.
The Magistrates of the Town hearing of my Letter, received me as a Publick Minister, they provided me with Carriages and Servants, and bore my Charges to Yedo [Tokyo], where I was admitted to an Audience, and delivered my Letter, which was opened…
Lambton Harbour and Mount Victoria from the Tinakore.
Ray Hargreaves disputes that this is the first litho & Ellis notes: see Park, The village of Richmond 2/11/04: A NOTE RE: THE LITHOGRAPHERS An article in the New Zealand Gazette dated June 12, 1841 on page 3, column 1 reads: 'A plan of the…
Kauri.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’54; l.c. in pencil: 5/55.
Japanese women, Simoda.
From the middle of the seventeenth to the beginning of the nineteenth-century, Japan, through the Tokugawa Shōgunate, was successful in rigorously enforcing a policy of seclusion. No Europeans were allowed into Japan except the Dutch who were…
James K. Baxter Festival 1973.
Inscribed throughout on plate.
J. Lort Stokes.
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Captain (Admiral) John Lort Stokes, R.N. was born st Scotchwell House, Pembrokeshire, in 1806 (?). Entered the Navy as a volunteer in 1824 on…
Ixos Haemorrhous - (Gmelin).
"In Mr Heine's notes we find the following in reference to this bird: 'I found this species in various places around Macao. Like nearly all the other birds, it had retired to the rocky hills, where it hopped gaily from bough to bough, or flitted…
Indiae orientalis ... .
Abraham Ortelius (1527-98), rightly called the 'Father of Modern Cartography', developed the idea of assembling a compendium of maps to form an atlas. The first edition of his "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" was published in 1570 and it was a great…
In memoriam.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 1/2/19/73 In Memoriam MDS
Illustration from The Circle of Chalk.
"Mrs Chang: My lord, the matter is settled. since I have accepted your gifts, my daughter is yours. You may take her away at once. And you my child, you know that it is not I who send you forth from the shelter of my arms. For now you have been…
Horsburgh Lighthouse.
On stone below image: Horsburgh Lighthouse. October 1851. T. Picken lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. Singapore straits Barbukit hill false Barbukit China Sea. J.M. Richardson 23 Cornhill London; on mount in ink: Pharos ego cum nomen prÊbunt…
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
Hindoo of Co-org, Madras Presidency. J.T.T. del. London Miss. Press.
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: 1847; on stone below image: Hindoo of Co-org, Madras Presidency. J.T.T. del. London Miss. Press
Green on black.
Verso in pencil: A14.
Golfing Caricature.
A caricature depicting a Medical Professor, William Percy Gowland with a Science professor, J. K. H. Inglis, playing golf with two Humanities Professors, Thomas Dagger Adams and H. Ramsay. The caricature is entitled "Keep Your Eye On The Ball". The…
Garden of the temple at lewchew.
"About this period a mutual friendship began to exist between us; confidence took place of timidity; and now, instead of permitting only a few to visit the shore at a time, they fitted up the garden of a temple as a sort of general arsenal for us;…
French Bay - night fishing.
Two editions of 30; one on white paper, one on blue. Ron Brownson suggested title: Night Fishing French Bay.
Eye of the Needle caricature.
A caricature showing the various obstacles that face medical students during their metaphorical climb up the 'mountain of life'. After encountering exams, financial difficulties and illness, they reach their ultimate goal - a degree as depicted by a…
Cover of the House & Garden capping magazine, 1987.
The OUSA capping magazine cover from 1987. The magazine is entitled "House & Garden" in jest and the cover depicts a burnt-out student flat.
Cover of the 1945 Digest Magazine.
The cover of the 1945 edition of the Medical School magazine, Digest. The image juxtaposes a soldier with a gun and a surgeon with a scalpel, both held at the same angle. Medical students were exempt from conscription during World War II. Due to a…
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Photomechanical copy of theatre programme for which the original sketch is not extant.