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[Drawing of Charles Brasch.]
verso in ink: [unfinished drawing]
Tags: Image, Ink drawings, Pen works, Poets, Portraits, Still Image, Twentieth century, Works of Art
Tasman Landscape 2.
Verso in pencil (Charles Brasch’s hand): Tasman landscape.
Tasman Landscape 1.
Label: Tasman landscape 8 gns. 1107 Woollaston. 41 [crossed out] 36
[Landscape 19.]
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Woollaston; l.l. mount in pencil: 19; l.r. mount in pencil: £2.2.; verso mount: [sketch of woman leaning against a chair]
The wife of the artist.
Verso original mount: Sleeping woman [crossed out] Woman sleeping. £5.5.0 M.T. Woollaston, Mapua. The wife of the artist 1947
Self portrait.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston 55; verso in pencil: [unfinished landscape]; on mount: 10 guineas
Hokitika.
Lower left (l.l.) with brown crayon: Woollaston, 1952; l.r. with brown crayon: Hokitika; verso in brown crayon: Hokitika; in ballpoint pen in Charles Brasch’s hand: Charles Brasch. MT Woollaston 1952
Portrait of the artist's son Philip, aged ten.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Woollaston ’55; label: Portrait of a boy [crossed out] The artist’s son Philip aged 10 1955; label: 43; label: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston, MAG 73-74 titled The artist’s son Philip, aged 10
Waiuta, Greymouth.
Lower right (l.r.) with brush: Woollaston ’54-8; label: Landscape Greymouth. Waiuta; label: Mountford Tosswill Woollaston MAG titled Waiuta Greymouth
Figure of Mr Menzies, Dannevirke.
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Woollaston ’60
Keep on keepin' on: Patriotic song
Sheet music of Hampton Woods' 'Keep on keepin' on: Patriotic song'
Tags: Great War 1914-1918, World War I
The ruins of Balbec
This book documents the Roman monuments of Baalbek in present-day Lebanon. It was a result of Robert Wood and James Dawkins' 1750-53 trip to Asia Minor. Wood was a member of the Society of the Dilettanti These volumes exhibited mark the beginning of…
Tags: Antiquity, Architecture, Baalbek, Special Collections
Joseph Somes.
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken's hand: Joseph Somes MP for Dartmouth, was the second Governor of the New Zealand Company, succeeding the Earl of Durham. He was of humble origin but…
Daniel Wakefield Esq.r of Lincoln’s Inn Barrister at Law.
Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Daniel Wakefield, Q.C., an eminent chancery barrister & pamphleteer was uncle of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. A man of great…
Edward Gibbon Wakefield Esq.r.
Dr Hocken’s collector’s chop: Hoc in Loco Deus Rupes; label: Na Te Hakena Tenei Tiki; label in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to whom the annexation & colonization of NZ is due was born in London March 20th 1796, and educated…
Letter from Wiremu Tamihana Tarapipipi Te Waharoa to Edward Shortland.
Tags: He Tirohanga Ki Muri, Hocken Library, Letter
Portrait of Helen, Mrs J.H. Scott.
Upper right (u.r.) in chalk: F.M.W. [monogram]
Thomas Morland Hocken, 1836 - 1910.
Lower right (l.r.) in chalk: F. M.W. [monogram]
Ruapekapeka, N.Z. January 1846.
Margin below image c. in ink: Ruapekapeka, N.Z. January 1846. The bombardment; margin below image r. in ink: J. Williams, 58th Reg.t; paper-maker’s chop (blind print): Turnbull … [illeg] London Board.
Okaihow, NZ. 8th May 1845.
Margin below image c. in ink: Okaihow, NZ. 8th May 1845 3 O’Clock pm; margin below image r. in ink: J. Williams 58th Reg.t Del.t.
Pomare’s Pah, N.Z. Destroyed 30th April 1845.
Margin below image in ink: Pomare’s Pah, N.Z. Destroyed 30th April 1845. J.Williams 58th Reg.t; margin below image in pencil: 7; verso: B.
Lake Rotomahana from a sketch of Rev. Kinder’s.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: EW [monogram]; verso in pencil: Lake Rotomahana from a sketch of Rev. Dr Kinder’s; on sketchbook mount: Boiling Springs. Rotorua - NZ -
Sketch map of coast country from Camp Alexander's farm to the Waitotara.
Lower centre (l.c.) in ink: Sketch map of coast country from Camp Alexander’s farm to the Waitotara. Scale - 1 inch to the mile. Copied from Mr Field’s survey and from observation by E.A. Williams, L.t Col. R.A.; through image in ink: [location…
[Maori wearing a cloak. Copy after G.F. Angas.]
Lower left (l.l.) - lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Copy Angas Published by McLean 26 Haymarket.