Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Messrs Deans; verso u.r. in ink: 30; on sketchbook mount: Riccarton. Messrs Deans’ Station. Canterbury; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the…
Lower left (l.l.) in ink: E.M.H.; l.r. in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: H.T. Cridland A. & C.E.; l.c. in ink: Riccarton, November 1850; margin below image in ink: Homestead of the brothers William & John Deans who in Feb 1843 were the first to settle on…