‘Captain’ Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, wearing the grenadiers helmet given him by Robert Jacob Gordon, Robert Jacob Gordon, 1777
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This work belongs to The Gordon African Collection : Men, reptiles, fishes (RP-T-1914-17A)
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Title(s)
‘Captain’ Coba (or Kobé), a chief of the Gqunukhwebe tribe, wearing the grenadiers helmet given him by Robert Jacob Gordon
Object type
Object number
RP-T-1914-17-75
Inscriptions / marks
- annotation, within image and lower margin, handwritten in brown ink: ‘Ik had hem die muts vereert / Dese Caffers hieten Sig Selven Cosaas, of Amma Cosa / Coba Caffer Captein, Ses voet lang / en git Swart, met sijn Schild; en Assagaijen’ (I had honoured him with the cap / These Caffres call themselves Xhosas, or AmaXhosa / The Caffre Captain Coba, six foot high and pitch black with his shield and assegais), hand of resp. Gordon; Sch; Gordon en Sch
Description
Stamhoofd Coba (Kobe) met de grenadiersmuts die hem door Gordon op 5 december 1777 werd geschonken, zijn schild en assegaaien.
Creation
Material and Technique
Explanatory note
Gordon gave the helmet to Coba on 5th December, and records having this drawing made on 11th December, plus one of himself which he gave to Coba.
Acquisition and rights
Credit line
- Purchased with the support of private collectors
Acquisition
purchase 1914
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Documentation
- South Africa in 1777-95 : the Gordon Collection of unpublished contemporary watercolour drawings, suppl., p. 5
- Een Nederlander in de wildernis : de ontdekkingsreizen van Robert Jacob Gordon (1743-1795) in Zuid-Afrika, Luc Panhuysen, afb. 13
- Goede Hoop : Zuid-Afrika en Nederland vanaf 1600, p. 176, afb. 10.16
- 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. 42, pl. 18 (kleurafb.)
- Robert Jacob Gordon : Cape travels, 1777 to 1786, Maurice Boucher, Peter Edmund Raper, vol. 1, p. 185, pl. 35 (kleurafb.)
- De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker, p. 125, afb. 2 (zw/w)
- Robert Gordon verkent de Kaap : tentoonstelling in het Prentenkabinet, Jan Frederik Heijbroek
- J. Peires, 'The other side of the black silk handkerchief : the Van Plettenberg agreement of 1778', Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa 62, nr. 1 (2008), p. 9 e.v. met afb.
- Afb. op www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon, als: Chief Coba or Kobe, wearing a grenadier’s cap, a gift from Gordon.
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