Title(s)

The kraal of “Captain” Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-73

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation, Lower margin, handwritten in brown ink: ‘Caffer Craal van Capitein Coba’ (Kraal of the Caffre captain Coba), hand Sch

Description

Stamhoofd Coba, of Kobe, mogelijk kleinzoon van Gwali, van de stam Ama-Gwali.

Artist

• draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Place

Great Fish River (South Africa) (possibly)

Dating

Oct-1777

Material

• paper
• deck paint
• ink
• watercolor (paint)
• pencil

Technique

brush / pen

Measurements

height c. 660 mm × width c. 480 mm
height 270 mm × width 413 mm
height 220 mm × width 370 mm

Where

• Zuid-Afrika

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of private collectors

Acquisition

purchase 1914

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Gordon African Collection : Men, reptiles, fishes (RP-T-1914-17A)

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• South Africa in 1777-95, suppl., p. 5
• Een Nederlander in de wildernis, Luc Panhuysen (Lucas Henricus Maria) , 1962-, afb. 16
• 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. 38-39 (kleurafb.)
• Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper, vol.1, p. 105, pl. 19 (kleurafb.)
• De Gordon Atlas, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Afb. op website www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon, als: Chief Coba or Kobe, possibly a grandson of Gwali, of the Ama-Gwali: family and village.