Two beetles and a praying mantis (to be identified), 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 -
Mahote, chieftain of the Dange Xhosa -
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)
Two beetles and a praying mantis (to be identified)
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1914-17-121
Inscriptions / marks
- annotation: ‘l.b.: guialis (?) [onderstreept] is een tovermeester/ in het namacqua land. / guigauri [onderstreept] hiet een tovermeid / of doctor meiden; r.b.: gaúaab, by de hottentotten genaamt / dit is het inseckt of soort springhaan / daar sij boegoe op smijten en laten hem vertrekken, synde bly / als hy iken(?) koomt; onderaan: Caapse insecten’
Description
Drie insecten: in het midden een kever, links een krekel of sprinkhaan en rechts een grotere sprinkhaan. Linker insect is een krekel, (geslacht Gryllus, familie Grylloidae), die een sjirpend geluid maakt (zie Gordon's bijschrift).
Creation
Artist
- draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to)
Dating
Oct-1777 - Mar-1786
Material and Technique
Subject
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. 6
- 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. 174: 4.10; Appendix, Sectie VI
- De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
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