Title(s)

Acacia karroo Hayne or Vachellia karroo (Karoo thorn, with an unidentified birt ?wagtail)

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1914-18-9

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation: ‘mimosa / camelopardaeis. / Caapse doornboom. / Cameeldoorn boom.’

Description

Acacia karroo Hayne (website.; Dyer; Raper& Boucher).

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 341 mm × width 221 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• South Africa in 1777-95 : the Gordon Collection of unpublished contemporary watercolour drawings, Suppl., p. 8
• Een beeld van een land : Zuid-Afrika gezien door R.J. Gordon, tussen 1773 en 1795, Meile Dirk Haga
• Robert Jacob Gordon : Cape travels, 1777 to 1786, Maurice Boucher, Peter Edmund Raper, vol. 1, p.137, pl. 26 (kleurafb.)
• Col. Robert Jacob Gordon's contribution to South African botany [1773-1795], R.A. Dyer, p. 19, cat.nr. 3446
• De Gordon Atlas : achttiende-eeuwse voorstellingen van het Zuidafrikaanse binnenland, Leendert Cornelis Rookmaaker
• Afb. op www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/people/Gordon: Acacia karroo Hayne.