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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…
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…
The city of Yedo or Edo (now Tokyo) [detail].
Between 1630 and 1830 Japan's borders were virtually closed to western visitors. The only Europeans allowed into Japan were the Dutch. Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces…
Textile patterns.
This book contains 64 colourful printed textile patterns produced by the Japanese artist Keika Hasegawa, who flourished c. 1893-1905. The pages are double folded in the Japanese style. Kyoka zuan is one of the important collections of textile…
Caricature of medical school professors.
A colour caricature by P. W. Eisdell Moore, depicting Professors from the School of Medicine. Left to right: Joseph Bernard Dawson, Eric F. D’Ath, Francis Gordon Bell, Charles Ernest Hercus, John Malcolm, William Percy Gowland, and Frederick Horace…
The whalers of the deep deep sea.
Notes on cover: "Owned by M.E. Hodgkinson of Riverton in 1857"
Professor F. Sinclaire. Medusa Studio.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Professor F. Sinclaire; l.r. in pencil: Jas Fitzgerald; on mount: 2/2/- drypoint from life; label verso: Medusa Studio.
North Otago. Ed 50 No 18.
Margin below image in pencil: North Otago Colin McCahon. Ed 50 No 18 73; in charcoal: [fingerprint].
North Otago. No 1, Ed. Zonta print.
Margin below image in pencil: Colin McCahon. ’73; No 1. Ed 2.
North Otago. Zonta print.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.
North Otago. Zonta print.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.
North Otago. Zonta print. India proof.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.
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.
James K. Baxter Festival 1973.
Inscribed throughout on plate.
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady by James K. Baxter. n.d. Book cover design no 1. n.d.
Margin u.l. in ballpoint pen: This drawing is the property of Colin McCahon. Please return; in carbon on image: James K. Baxter, The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; in margin in ballpoint pen: no 1; margin around image: [instructions to…
The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady by James K. Baxter. n.d. Book cover design no 2. n.d.
Margin below image c. in ballpoint pen: C.McC.; in carbon on image: James K. Baxter, The Holy Life and Death of Concrete Grady; in margin above image in ballpoint pen: no 2 [and printing instructions including note that artist wants art work returned…
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Photomechanical copy of theatre programme for which the original sketch is not extant.
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
Kauri.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’54; l.c. in pencil: 5/55.
French Bay - night fishing.
Two editions of 30; one on white paper, one on blue. Ron Brownson suggested title: Night Fishing French Bay.
Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs. 2.
Lower left (l.l.) on stone: Puketutu from my boat. ’57. ed.100.
Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs. 1.
Lower right (l.r.) on stone: C.McC. 57.
Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs. title page.
Inscribed throughout on stone: Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs by Colin McCahon 1957.1. ed. 100. Published by Peter Webb, High St Auckland.