Title(s)

Khoikhoi or San woman with her little boy

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1914-17-84

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation: ‘Hottentots Wijf.’

Artist

• draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Dating

Oct-1777 - Mar-1786

Material

• paper
• deck paint
• ink

Technique

brush / pen

Measurements

height 660 mm × width 480 mm
height 339 mm × width 208 mm
height 322 mm × width 204 mm

What

• Khoikhoi

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• South Africa in 1777-95 : the Gordon Collection of unpublished contemporary watercolour drawings, suppl., p. 5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
• Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795 : the man and his travels at the Cape, Patrick Cullinan, p. 26, pl. 11 (kleurafb.)
• Robert Jacob Gordon : Cape travels, 1777 to 1786, Maurice Boucher, Peter Edmund Raper, Vol. 2, p. 262, pl. 50 (l) (kleurafb.)
• De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Afb. op website www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon, als: Khoekhoe woman and child.