Varanus albigularis (Rock monitor), Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1779
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This work belongs to The Gordon African Collection : Men, reptiles, fishes (RP-T-1914-17A)
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The Gordon African Collection : Men, reptiles, fishes -
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Man holding three assegais and a knobkerrie -
Running man holding an assegai in his right hand and four assegais in… -
The kraal of “Captain” Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe -
Pusega, daughter of Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe -
‘Captain’ Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, wearing… -
A standing, probably Khoikhoi, woman, with tobacco-pipe and child -
Man, probably of the AmaXhosa, wearing a leopard skin and holding a… -
Chieftans of the Namaqualand region -
Karmoeb, Captain of the Namaqua Khoisan -
Ruiter, a Gonaqua captain -
Khoikhoi or Gonaqua woman with a child at the breast -
The Gonaqua chieftain, Ruiter -
Nomadic tribe with their possessions laden on an ox -
Khoikhoi or San woman with her little boy -
Khoikhoi man smoking a pipe -
Burial of a Khoikhoi man, with spectators -
Standing Khoikhoi woman -
Man of the Khoikhoi with an ox-horn pipe in his hand -
A Khoikhoi kraal with dancers and musicians -
San-huishouden met vuur en kookpotten -
Homestead of the so-called Strandlopers (San or Khoikhoi) just north… -
A Tswana or Kora knife with its sheath -
Grave of a Khoisan chieftain -
Chersine angulata (Angulate tortoise) -
Psammobates tentorius (Tent tortoise) -
Homopus areolatus (Common padloper tortoise) -
Testudo pardalis (Leopard tortoise) -
Pelomedusa subrufa (African helmeted turtle) -
Chamaeleo namaquensis (Namaqua chameleon) -
Bradypodion pumilum in three poses (Cape dwarf chameleon) -
Bradypodion pumilum (Cape dwarf chameleon) -
Agama atra (Southern rock agama) -
Agama hispida (Southern spiny agama) -
Varanus albigularis (Rock monitor) -
Bitis atropos (Berg adder) -
Bitis cornuta (Hornsman adder) -
Bitis caudalis (Horned adder) -
Mugil cephalus (Flathead grey mullet) -
Fish of the order Mugilidae (mullet) -
Liza richardsonii (South African mullet) -
Unidentified tropical fish -
Labeo umbratus (Cape moggel) -
Lithognathus lithognathus (White steenbras) -
Coracinus capensis (Galjoen) -
Clarias stappersii (catfish) -
Cheilodactylus fasciatus (Redfingers) -
Genypterus capensis (Kingklip) -
Mola mola (Ocean sunfish) -
Crab (probably of the Potamon genus) -
Crab (probably of the Potamon genus) -
Two beetles and a praying mantis (to be identified) -
Beetles, chafers and grasshoppers (to be identified) -
Beetles and Grasshopers (to be identified)
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Identification
Title(s)
Varanus albigularis (Rock monitor)
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1914-17-104
Inscriptions / marks
- annotation: ‘hagedis die zig in het water en op het land houd. Sneeuwberg den 30 oct: 1779.’
Description
Een hagedissoort die zich zowel in het water als op het land ophoudt.
Creation
Artist
- draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to)
Dating
30-Oct-1779
Material and Technique
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
- Purchased with the support of private collectors
Acquisition
purchase 1914
Copyright
Relations
Documentation
- South Africa in 1777-95 : the Gordon Collection of unpublished contemporary watercolour drawings, suppl., p. 5
- Een beeld van een land : Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795, Meile Dirk Haga
- Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) en zijn bijdrage tot de zoölogie van de Kaap de Goede Hoop, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker, p. 173: 4.9; Appendix, Sectie IV
- De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
- UCT website geeft een andere tekening te zien, die zich niet in de Gordon Atlas bevindt.
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