Upper left (u.l.) with brush: [title]; u.r. with brush: McCahon; l.c. in ballpoint pen: lighting instructions; l.r. in pencil: Colin McCahon, March ’54; verso: preliminary sketch in gouache
Lower right (l.r.) in brown ink: T.L. Stanley 1869; u.r. in ink: T.M. Hocken; on mount in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: The former swampy flat now covered by Caversham, South Dunedin, S.t Kilda, & S.t Clair. The gable of the Benevolent Institution well…
Lower right (l.r.) in ink: Survey Station on a bend of the Molineux. Otago. 1850 WF [monogram]; verso: 42 36; on sketchbook mount: On the Molyneux, Otago; on flypage of sketchbook in ink: Thomas Morland Hocken from Sir William Fox. Sir William Fox…
Lower right (l.r.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Drawing for a love poem by Warren Dibble Hotere ’65; through image in pencil: Let me live on your wrist. Hood me with a habit spun of your love and I shall fly, no hawk but an Icarus, to the darkness inside your sun.
Label by W. Holmes transcribed in ink by Dr Hocken: I. 1. Rhodes’s farm, Banks Peninsula. 2. A native Pah. 3. Pulao Bay. 4. Castle Eden, 930 tons. 5. Sumner Road. 6. Town of Lyttelton. 7. Port Vict. 8. Quail Island (abounding in good bldg stone) 9.…
Margin below image in ink: T.M. Hocken; label: Na te hakena tenei tiki; note by W. Holmes transcribed in ink by Dr Hocken: Bold promontory Pacific Ocean The bar at mouth of River Heathcote. The Heathcote River. Cave in rocks. Cottage rock. Fine Bay.…
On sketchbook mount in indian ink superimposed over iron gall ink: The Sugar Loaves near Taranaki 1856 Marsland Hill. S. Mary’s Church. Paritutu. Mikotahi. Moturoa & Motumahanga; labels in ink in Dr Hocken’s hand: Sir WM Fox. New Plymouth; on…