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Date: 1885 - 1895

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-311-q-001

Description: Part of a Victorian house, possibly one of the homes of the Hodgkins family in Dunedin, seen through the centre of a horse-shoe, with apple-blossom framing the whole. May be the work of Isabel Hodgkins, rather than Frances Hodgkins Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Ink, watercolour & gouache on brown paper 210 x 181 mm, glued to album page

Date: 1885 - 1887

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-316-q-040/041

Description: An ink and wash caricature, signed F H, showing two locusts sitting on the fence beside a field of wheat. They are discussing their intended raid on the field. A watercolour showing a tall portside pole with stairs leading to a high platform, probably a lookout tower, perhaps at Port Chalmers. A small rowboat is at the water's edge and a yacht passes by in the water Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and wash and watercolour, on paper glued to both sides of card, 217 x 141 mm, loose between album pages

Date: 1885 - 1887

From: Hodgkins family :Scrapbook [1860s-1920s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950

Reference: E-316-q-033

Description: A landscape showing reflections in a river, possibly with a hut in the bushes to the left. Probably the work of Isabel Hodgkins. A cartoon showing two small boys, both with patched trousers, hanging down into a very large barrel beside a house. Shows the artist's (either Frances or Isabel Hodgkins) younger brothers studying a frog in the barrel. The house is likely to be in Dunedin, possibly at Roseneath Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Watercolour on wove paper, 103 x 167 mm; pencil on wove paper, 141 x 182 mm glued into album on page 285 x 255 mm

Date: 1880 - 1899

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898; Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950; Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-312-q-080/081

Description: Includes three signed head and shoulder portraits by Frances Hodgkins: a bearded man looking away; a man with hat and moustache; and a woman with veiled hat. Includes watercolour of dandelion flower stalk and leaves, by Isabel Hodgkins (I.H.) Includes "Art Club sketch" by William Mathew Hodgkins showing a hay wagon.n Includes a palette-shaped card (by K[atherine] Holmes) with sketch and poem about a lady artist, and her conversation with a bee, about going to Manapori [sic] to sketch. Inscriptions: Some sketches initialled by artist. Quantity: 5 watercolour(s). 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, and watercolour, sizes vary, on double page spread 286 x 460 mm (approx).

Date: 1885 - 1895

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook. ca 1890]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-424-q-021

Description: Two half-length sketches of the same man reading. Possibly shows William Mathew Hodgkins, the artist's father at home Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil 201 x 119 mm

Date: 1886

From: [Hodgkins, Frances Mary] 1869-1947 :Frank. Bertie. Lydia Bowker. [1886 or earlier?]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: B-082-010-1

Description: Portrait of Miss Jessie Dick, Lady Principal of Braemar House, Fern Lea, Port Chalmers, where Frances and Isabel Hodgkins studied in the late 1870s. On verso of B-082-010 Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Charcoal sketch, on sheet 470 x 350 mm

Date: 1885

By: McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995; Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: A-214-084

Description: Shows left profile, waist-length portrait of Isabel aged about 19, with bun, holding her hand-sewing rather close to her face. Inscriptions: Recto - [Title] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil on grey wove paper, 184 x 107 mm. Provenance: Estate of Eric McCormick, 1995. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1880 - 1899

From: Hodgkins family :[Album of sketches 1880s, 1890s]

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; Hodgkins, William Mathew, 1833-1898

Reference: E-312-q-046/047

Description: Includes oval signed watercolour portrait by Frances Hodgkins, entitled: "A Merry Christmas to you". Includes three signed water landscapes by William Mathew Hodgkins: "Near West Taieri"; small ship pulled up on a beach; mountain range and bush. Includes other sketches, probably by William Mathew Hodgkins: Ink sketch of near-sighted man writing; three head sketches; one charcoal profile; man with cap sitting cross-legged; two smiling black (African) girls in colourful dress; short person in long skirt; and one ink sketch of sailing ships off a headland with lighthouse and associated structures.. Inscriptions: Some sketches initialled by artist. Quantity: 6 watercolour(s). 5 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, charcoal, and watercolour, sizes vary, on double page spread 286 x 460 mm (approx).

Date: ca 1885

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947; McCormick, Eric Hall (Dr), 1906-1995

Reference: A-214-085

Description: Shows head and shoulders portrait of grey-haired woman with bun, and spectacles low on the nose, probably reading. This is possibly a sketch of the artist's mother, Rachel Owen Hodgkins (nee Parker). Dated 1885, because of similarity of style and paper, to A-214-084, which is dated 1885. Probably also executed at Ravensbourne. Inscriptions: Unsigned and undated. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). 6.20 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Pencil on grey wove paper, 184 x 107 mm. Transfers: Transfer from Manuscripts and Archives, A95-145..

Date: 1887

From: Hodgkins, Frances Mary 1869-1947 :[Sketchbook] 1887

By: Hodgkins, Frances Mary, 1869-1947

Reference: E-423-q-009

Description: Three satirical sketches, representing the artist's sister Isabel farewelling her fiance William Field. Top left, a tall man and a short woman embrace on a platform, while the station-master gestures towards a bell to indicate that a train is leaving. Top right, the couple stand by the ticket office, both wiping tears from their eyes, and making extravagant gestures. William Field has a case labelled Wellington at his feet. Bottom centre, the train is departing, leaving a disconsolate Isabel Hodgkins standing on the track behind it. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink 190 x 312 mm