Panorama of Mossel Bay, seen from the north east, Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to), 1778

Title(s)

Panorama of Mossel Bay, seen from the north east

Object type

• drawing
• topographical view
• panorama

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-62

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation
• signature and date: ‘...den 22 Februarij 1778. R: J: Gordon/...’

Description

Panorama van Mosselbaai, ontsloten door middel van een gidskaart, met delen A t/m C.

Artist

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

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

22-Feb-1778

Material

• paper
• ink
• pencil
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 295 mm × width 3017 mm
height 235 mm × width 2940 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of private collectors

Acquisition

purchase 1914

Copyright

Public domain

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• South Africa in 1777-95, cat.nr. 41
• Een beeld van een land: Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795, Meile Dirk Haga
• Geografische index op de Gordon Atlas, Robert C. de Jong, p.137A, p. 138, cat.nr. 62
• 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