Title(s)

Hermas igniaria of Hermas gigantea (Tontelblaar)

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1914-18-6

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation: ‘Hermas Igniaria. en Hermas Gigantea. / Lineus’

Description

Hermas igniaria of Hermas gigantea (Linaeus).

Artist

• draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon

Dating

Oct-1777 - Mar-1786

Material

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

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height c. 660 mm × width 480 mm
height 413 mm × width 263 mm
height 0 mm × width 0 mm

What

• plants; vegetation

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of private collectors

Acquisition

purchase 1914

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• The Gordon African Collection: Plants (RP-T-1914-18)

• South Africa in 1777-95, Suppl., p. 8
• Een beeld van een land : Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795
• Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795 : the man and his travels at the Cape
• Robert Jacob Gordon, Peter Edmund Raper
• Col. Robert Jacob Gordon's contribution to South African botany [1773-1795], R.A. Dyer, p. 20, cat.nr. 5917
• De Gordon Atlas, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Afb. op ww.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon: Hermas gigantean L.f.