Hippopotamus hunt at the Seekoei River, Robert Jacob Gordon, 1778

Identification

Title(s)

Hippopotamus hunt at the Seekoei River

Object type

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-66

Inscriptions / marks

annotation

Description

De huidige Seekoeirivier nabij Boesmanshoed.

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

Jan-1778 - Mar-1778

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 420 mm × width 500 mm
height 330 mm × width 500 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. 44
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.62, pl. 24 (kleurafb.)
Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper, vol.I, p. 89, pl. 16 (kleurafb.)
Geografische index op de Gordon Atlas, Robert C. de Jong, p.142, cat.nr. 66
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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