Panorama of Camdbo and the Sneeuberg Mountains, see from Bruintjeshoogte, Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1777

Identification

Title(s)

Panorama of Camdbo and the Sneeuberg Mountains, see from Bruintjeshoogte

Object type

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-59

Inscriptions / marks

annotation: ‘Gesigt van de Camdebo, en Sneeuw Berge, van Bruijns Hoogte af gesien na de West Syde’

Description

Panorama van de Camdebo en de Sneeuwberg, vanaf Bruintjeshoogte gezien; nabij Graaff-Reinet.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to)
draughtsman: Johannes Schumacher (possibly)

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

Nov-1777

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 185 mm × width 735 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

Documentation

South Africa in 1777-95, cat.nr. 37
Een beeld van een land : Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795
Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper, vol.I, p. 76, pl. 14 (kleurafb.)
Geografische index op de Gordon Atlas, Robert C. de Jong, p.135, cat.nr. 59
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
www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon.

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