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James K. Baxter Festival 1973.
Inscribed throughout on plate.
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…
Kauri.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’54; l.c. in pencil: 5/55.
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…
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…
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…
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]
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
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.
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.
Pedra Branca.
On stone below image: Pedra Branca. April 1850. T. Picken lith. Day & Son Lith.rs to the Queen. Singapore strait Barbukit hill false Barbukit China Sea. J.M. Richardson 23 Cornhill London.
Playing at Shuttlecock with the feet.
"Near to the afflux of the Tchang-ho with the Cha-ho, river of floodgates, or imperial canal, is a splendid octagonal pagoda : it consists of nine stories, adorned with projecting eves, and it tapers with a remarkably gradual and graceful…
Port Otago (Nouvelle Zélande).
Dessiné par L. LeBreton. Lith. par Sabatier. Imp. par Lemercier à Paris. Gide Editeur. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie. Atlas pittoresque. pl 180 [1846]
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.
Professor William Percy Gowland, Medical School.
William Percy Gowland (1879-1965) was the Professor of Anatomy at the Otago Medical School between 1914 and 1943. He went on to become the Director of Medical Services at Wellington Hospital from 1944 to 1949.
Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs. 1.
Lower right (l.r.) on stone: C.McC. 57.
Puketutu, Manukau, 3 lithographs. 2.
Lower left (l.l.) on stone: Puketutu from my boat. ’57. ed.100.
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.
Queen Mary Maternity Hospital, medical school students.
Two photographs from a photo series on the Queen Mary Maternity Hospital. Upper: Two students in their accommodation playing a board game. Lower: A male student removing the nappy of a newborn baby. The captions read: "The students’ living room,…
Raree-Show at Lin-Sin-Chow.
"The spectators and auditors at the raree-show in Lin-sin-choo belong to the industrious and humbler classes" (Allom, c.1842, v. I, p. 48).