Panorama of Plettenberg Bay, seen from an elevation at the mouth of the Keurbooms River, Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1778

Identification

Title(s)

Panorama of Plettenberg Bay, seen from an elevation at the mouth of the Keurbooms River

Object type

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-38

Inscriptions / marks

signature: ‘R:J: Gordon’
annotation

Description

Tekst ontsloten d.m.v. een gidskaart met delen A t/m D; rechtsonder een cartouche zonder tekst.

Creation

Artist

draftsman (artist): Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to)

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

14-Feb-1778

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 415 mm × width 2430 mm

Explanatory note

Oorspronkelijk in omslag van roodkleurig halfleer en roodgemarmerd plat, dorso met ribben en goudopdruk; 71 x 99 x 6 cm.

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of private collectors

Acquisition

purchase 1914

Copyright

Public domain

Relations

Documentation

South Africa in 1777-95, cat.nr. 18
Een beeld van een land: Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795, Meile Dirk Haga
Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: the man and his travels at the Cape, Patrick Cullinan, p. 154-155, pl.71 (kleurafb., detail)
Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper, vol.II, p. 426-427,pl. 90 (kleurafb.)
Geografische index op de Gordon Atlas, Robert C. de Jong, p. 112A, p. 113, cat.nr. 38
De Gordon Atlas, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
Johannes Schumacher; Anne Hallema (introd), The Cape in 1776-1777: aquarelles by Johannes Schumacher from the Swellengrebel-collection at Breda, The Hague( etc.): Stols [etc.] 1951, p. 13-14

Persistent URL

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