Through image in pencil: [colour notes]; verso in pencil: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1859 … [illeg]; on sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa. From the head of the harbour 1858; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir…
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Akaroa; on sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa 1850; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor…
On sketchbook mount in ink: Akaroa. French Settlement on Banks Peninsula; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Akaroa. French settlement on Banks Peninsula. Sir Wm Fox. About 1835 a French Mariner, Captain L'anglois visited Akaroa and bought from the…