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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  April 2016 Antique & Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  19 Apr 2016 ~ 9.30am (NZ time)
  19 Apr 2016 ~ 5pm (NZ time)
• Lot #:
  316
• Lot Description:
  An album containing early sketches of New Zealand
  poetry and scraps, leather bound octavo size. Includes ink sketches by John Johnson (1794-1848), colonial surgeon, and his son John Grant Johnson, land purchaser and Government interpreter engaged in land negotiations (1850s) and others. Some overseas images Corfu(?) dated 1856; Hurricane in the Bay of Biscay dated 1838, other local images including ‘Frenchman’s Bay, Akaroa...’; ‘North Head & Rangitoto...’ (loose); ‘Taurarua (Judges) Bay 1855’; ‘From Mount St John’; ‘The Auckland S.N.C Ship Wm. Denny’; ‘Mount Cecilia head of Wairau valley, Province of Nelson’; Untitled (view across Hobson Bay to Rangitoto and Great barrier Is); and a watercolour portrait (in the manner of G.F.Angas) of a Maori woman wearing European and Maori dress (laid in): ‘Hatareka (Hadrach)*, a Christian native who in the Wars at the Bay of Islands ... assisted in carrying our wounded soldiers from the field in the midst of a heavy fire’ . Along with manuscript transcriptions of poems and various epithets is a
• Provenance:
  Estate of Rena Frances Brodie
• Notes:
  The lot is from the Estate of Rena Frances Brodie are associated with Capt. Francis Brodie, born Scotland, served with the 71st (Highland) Light Infantry (Lieut.), died at his home at Lake St John, Remuera,1916, Auckland Town Clerk 1870s, an awardee of 400 acres under the Military Settlers Act 1889.
• Estimate:
  NZ$2,000 - 2,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Militaria & Weapons

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