Giraffe-hunt near the Orange River in the vicinity of the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River, Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778 - 1779

Title(s)

Giraffe-hunt near the Orange River in the vicinity of the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River

Object type

• drawing
• topographical view

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-64

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation

Description

Giraffenjacht aan de Oranjerivier in de omgeving van de Aughrabieswaterval. De Oranjerivier wordt ook wel Gariep genoemd.

Artist

• draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

Aug-1778 - Jan-1779

Material

• paper
• ink
• pencil
• watercolor (paint)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 403 mm × width 500 mm
height 335 mm × width 500 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of private collectors

Acquisition

purchase 1914

Copyright

Public domain

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• Goede Hoop, p. 178, afb. 10.18
• 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. 102-103 (kleurafb.)
• Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper, vol.II, p. 321, pl.64
• Geografische index op de Gordon Atlas, Robert C. de Jong, p.140, cat.nr. 64
• De Gordon Atlas, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Robert Gordon verkent de Kaap, Jan Frederik 1949- Heijbroek
• 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
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