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Three Otago worthies: His Honour Captain Cargill; Sir John Richardson; Rev.d Dr Burns, D.D.
Lower left (l.l.) each image with brush: JTT 1879; on mount in pencil: J.T. Thomson Del.t 1879.Three Otago worthies: His Honour Captain Cargill; Sir John Richardson; Rev.d Dr Burns, D.D.
The "Dunedin" off the English Coast.
Depicts the ship `Dunedin' that carried the 1st load of frozen lamb to England from Port Chalmers in 1882
An incident during a Hau-hau raid on a settler’s farm.
On label verso mount: An incident during a Hauhau raid on a settler’s farm. Painted by Major von Tempsky. Presented by Mrs N Kettle (née von Tempsky)
Clouds, hill and Claudia.
Upper left (u.l.) with brush in capitals: Clouds, Hills & Claudia, u.r. in capitals: R. White ’72
Looking up the Wanganui River from sandhills near the town.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Looking up the Wanganui River from Sandhills near the town 16 January 65
23 January. The Mowhanau Stream. Close to Alexander’s Farm.
Lower left (l.l.) - l.r. in pencil: 23 Jan.y. The Mowhanau Stream. Close to Alexander’s Farm High Water
Mount Egmont and the Waitara Plain.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: M.t Egmont and the Waitara Plain; verso: 29; on mount: Visited some natives with Col. Warre in … 1864 June. This gives a very fair idea of Mount Egmont from the Waitara Plains. The sea is behind Spectator. The scene of…
Pukeoha (the hill of Weariness) on the River Waike.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Pukeoha (the hill of weariness); l.r. in ink: on the River Waike 31 March; l.r. in pencil: EW [monogram]; verso in ballpoint pen: page 5; on original sketchbook mount in pencil: A fishing Pa on Wanganui coast, curious…
Beach and Sugar Loaves, New Plymouth.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Beach and Sugar Loaves, New Plymouth; verso: 17
Bell Block House.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Bell Block House 15 June 1864; verso: 22
Mountain at sunset.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush in blue paint: Woollaston; verso in fibre tipped pen: 64/100 Mountain at sunset. M.T. Woollaston; verso in green fibre tipped pen: 75gns; label: Woo 12; 2nd label: T. Woollaston oil Mountain of [superimposed to read] at…
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…
Mount Aspiring from Wanaka Lake.
Upper right (u.r.) impressed into paper: Geological Survey N.Z. Otago; on original mount in pencil: Mount Aspiring from Wanaka Lake. Dr Hector.
Southern part of Lake Wanaka.
On original mount in pencil: Southern part of Lake Wanaka
3 windows, known as Can’t.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Clairmont; l.r. in ballpoint pen, bracketed in blue pencil: (“3 windows)” known as (“Can’t) Oct 76; verso in blue pencil: No 1; verso mount in ballpoint pen: Owner - L. Wilson 10.5.84; label: Bosshard Galleries.…
[Portrait of a lady. n.d.]
Attributed to Girolamo Pieri Nerli, 1860-1926.
View of Wilson’s house Remuera, taken from the lawn tennis paddock.
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
Rata (leaf fine) - nikau palm at Foot
Upper right (u.r.) in pencil: fine leaves rata; verso in pencil: Rata (leaf fine) - nikau palm at foot; verso mount: [title]
Sisters communing.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Fahey
[A country scene.]
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: I. Field 08; label … Country … [illeg] Mrs W.H. Field
Tomahawk.
"[Field's] ideas on painting had been influenced by the Post-Impressionists to the extent of allowing heightened colour and a degree of flattening and formal interest in the constructin of the imagery. Anywhere else Field would not have seemed…
Interior.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: R.N. Field, 28. verso: landscape in oils.
Kawatau River at the junction of the Rangitikei River.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Kawatau river at the junction of the Rangitikei river
In the Martukituki or Aglionby Valley.
Label by Dr B.H. Howard: Matukituki. Not the valley of the present Matakitaki River but the open country at Murchison below the junction of Buller & Matakitaki. Also called “Aglionby Valley” [B.H. Howard, 64: Fox in area 18-19 Feb 1846].