Bitis caudalis (Horned adder), Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1777 - 1786
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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)
Bitis caudalis (Horned adder)
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1914-17-107
Inscriptions / marks
- annotation: ‘"Naturl: Groote 10 duijm Rijnlands / Sogenaamde Hoornsman of horenslang uit het Namacqua land, dese slang is seer vergiftig / hij heeft geen hoornen so als men voorgegeven heeft; het sijn maar twe verheventheden van het schubbige / vel boven de oogen."’
Description
Gehoornde pofadder (Bitis caudalis), uit Namaqualand, en een detail van de opengesperde bek. Giftige slang met twee op horens lijkende uitstulpsels boven de ogen die hem zijn naam geven; met een schaalverdeling in duimen.
Creation
Artist
- draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to)
Dating
Oct-1777 - Mar-1786
Material and Technique
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
- Purchased with the support of private collectors
Acquisition
purchase 1914
Copyright
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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 : Cape travels, 1777 to 1786, Maurice Boucher, Peter Edmund Raper, vol. 2, p. 284, pl. 55 (b.) (kleurafb.)
- 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
- Afb. op website www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon; horned adder.
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