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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…
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…
Red on black.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: 7; verso in pencil: A14.
Blue on black.
Upper left (u.l.) & l.r. in pencil: 21; verso in pencil: A14.
Green on black.
Verso in pencil: A14.
Black window. 7/10.
Margin below image l. - r. in pencil: 7/10 Black Window Hotere Elam 84; watermark: Arches France.
The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors in their journey to Court.
In 1691 Kaempfer (a physician) travelled with the Dutch ambassadors from Nagasaki to Yedo, seeking an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. The retinue of the Dutch Ambassadors, in their journey to court, compos'd of the following persons. 1,…
China monumentis [frontispiece].
Kircher was ordained a Jesuit in 1628 in Mainz, Germany, but fled his homeland and settled in Rome in 1634 to escape the Thirty Years War. He remained in Rome most of his life researching a wide variety of disciplines, from geography and astronomy to…
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.
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.
French Bay - night fishing.
Two editions of 30; one on white paper, one on blue. Ron Brownson suggested title: Night Fishing French Bay.
Kauri.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: McCahon ’54; l.c. in pencil: 5/55.
Hoeing tobacco.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Hoeing tobacco.
Cover designs for Peer Gynt.
Photomechanical copy of theatre programme for which the original sketch is not extant.
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…
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…
James K. Baxter Festival 1973.
Inscribed throughout on plate.
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. Zonta print. India proof.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.
North Otago. Zonta print.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.
North Otago. Zonta print.
Title supplied by Gordon Brown.