Waterfall at Drakenstein at the source of the Great Berg River, Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777 - 1786

Identification

Title(s)

Waterfall at Drakenstein at the source of the Great Berg River

Object type

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-67

Inscriptions / marks

annotation

Creation

Artist

draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Place

Kaapprovincie

Dating

Oct-1777 - Mar-1786

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 0 mm × width 0 mm
height 245 mm × width 305 mm
height 0 mm × width 0 mm

Explanatory note

Oorspronkelijk in omslag van roodkleurig halfleer en roodgemarmerd plat, dorso met ribben en goudopdruk; 71 x 99 x 6 cm. Ontstaan tijdens één van de vier expedities door de Kaapprovincie van oktober 1777 tot maart 1786.

Subject

What

waterfall

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. 45
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.143, cat.nr. 67
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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