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View looking north from Mt Iron, Wanaka.
About 1865 Nicholas Chevalier visited New Zealand with his wife and went on a tour of the lakes and mountains of Otago.
Te Rauparaha. June 1845.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: E Abbot del.t, June 1845; superimposed in ink: E Abbott June 1845; l.c. in ink superimposed over pencil: Te Rauparaha
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…
Panorama of St John’s College, Tamaki, Auckland, founded by Bishop G.A. Selwyn, November 1844.
On stone: Auckland in the distance. Taurarua Point. Printing office. Washhouse. Bishop’s house. English school. Hall. Kitchen. Maori adult school. Weaving room. Surgery. Rangitoto Isle. St Thomas’s church, Tamaki. College Chapel. Maori Boys…
Evening light, Anderson’s Bay, Dunedin.
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: James M. Nairn; verso frame in pencil in Brasch’s hand: J.M. Nairn; verso frame in ballpoint pen: Nisbet [framing instructions]
Pepepe Church Missionary station. On the Waikato River New Zealand.
Lower right (l.r.) on plate: FA [monogram]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath…
Scene in a New Zealand Forest. Near Waipa.
Lower centre (l.c.) on plate: FA [monogram]; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath…
Entrance to the Valley of the Wairau from Cloudy Bay, New Zealand.
On flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox who well knew the interest I took in old New Zealand & was a frequent visitor at my house, promised to bequeath me these sketches which he commenced to take…
Poahu and E Koti. Two lads of Poverty Bay. Children of Te Pakaru, the principal chief of Kaiohia.
On original mount in ink: New Zealanders.
Weeping over a deceased chief.
Below image c. - r. erased: Brighter want of sunshine brilliance.
Untitled.
Verso in ink: Greetings & a happy New Year from Rita
Evening, Thorndon.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus
At sea.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus.
View from Tinakori Road.
"In the 1960s Wellington's long settled inner suburb of Thorndon was threatened by the proposed construction of a motorway through it. Old houses were pulled down and Wellington's first cemetery was demolished." "When plans for an extension to the…
Leaf and Tug: Spring
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Rita Angus.
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Rita Angus
Central Otago landscape.
GH Brown says painted to show art school style fashion; Ron Brownson says painted to explore use of texture.
Tree.
Lower right (l.r.): Rita Angus; verso: 17 Tree
Lawyer’s Head from above St Clair.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: E Anscombe July 1891; verso: artist’s name & title on torn label
Queen Street, Auckland, 1843.
Margin below image in ink over pencil: Queen Street, Auckland, 1843 T.M. Hocken Courthouse & Gaol Victoria St, Bluebell Inn (Nicol) probably the Wheatsheaf Inn Corner Victoria St; through image in ink over pencil: Victoria St Post Office &…
Titahi Bay.
Lower left (l.l.) with brush: Titahi Bay W.G. Baker