Title(s)

Pusega, daughter of Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-74

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation, lower margin, handwritten in brown ink: ‘Pusega Caffers dogter van kaptein Coba / git Swart’ (Pusega, the daughter of the Caffre Captain Coba; pitch black), hand of Sch

Artist

• draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Place

Great Fish River (South Africa)

Dating

Dec-1777 and/or Oct-1778

Material

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

Technique

brush / pen

Measurements

height c. 660 mm × width c. 480 mm
height 347 mm × width 232 mm
height 309 mm × width 222 mm

Where

• Great Fish River (South Africa)

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)

• South Africa in 1777-95 : the Gordon Collection of unpublished contemporary watercolour drawings, suppl., p. 5
• Een beeld van een land : Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795, Meile Dirk Haga
• De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Afb. op www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon, als: Chief Coba’s daughter, Pusega.