A Hottentot Man and Woman with a view of the Table Mountain and Cape Town at the Cape of Good Hope
Published in A General View of the World, 1807. Copper engraving. (more…)
Prints
A view of Klaarwater, looking towards the North East
Coloured Aquatint. 5 June 1812 ‘From Travels in the Interior off South Africa’ 1822-1825 (more…)
Cape Town, from Table Bay
Hand-coloured engraving (more…)
Chat noir du Cap
Frédéric Cuvier (1773- 1838) was a French zoologist and the head keeper of the menagerie at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris from 1804 to 1838. He named the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) in 1825. The chair of comparative physiology was created for him at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in 1837. He was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1835.He is mentioned in Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (Chapter VII) as having worked on animal behaviour and instinct, especially the distinction between habit and instinct. He is also mentioned in Moby-Dick (Chapter 32) as having written on the topic of whales. The animals were drawn from life mainly at the zoo Jardin des Plantes in Paris. (more…)
Engraving: A Hottentot Kraal, on the banks of the Gariep. - W.J. Burchell
Engraved after the original Drawing made by W.J. Burchell Esq. 17 Sept. 1811. Contemporary hand colouring.
From Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.
Engraving: Crossing the Berg River - W.J. Burchell
Engraved after the original Drawing made by W.J. Burchell Esq. 23 June 1811. Contemporary hand colouring.
From Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.
Engraving: The Rock Fountain in the Country of the Bushmen. - W.J. Burchell
Engraved after the original Drawing made by W.J. Burchell Esq. September 1811. Contemporary hand colouring.
From Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 1821
From Wynberg Hill, False Bay in the distance
Original stone lithograph from Thomas Bowler from SA sketches Album 1854 (more…)
Gem Bock (sic)
Watercolour painted after earlier works by Captain Cornwallis Harris (more…)
King Williams town
Hand-coloured engraving (more…)
Pietermaritzberg the Capital of Natal
Hand-coloured engraving (more…)
Springbok
Major General Henry Strachan Elton (1841-1934) seems to have seen service mainly in Burma and India. Exhibited at the Army Office Art Society, London. c 1880. Watercolour painted after earlier works by Captain Cornwallis Harris. (more…)
The Rock Fountain in the Country of the Bushmen. - W.J. Burchell
Engraved after the original Drawing made by W.J. Burchell Esq. 9 September 1811.
From Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa.
Vue de Mozambique, tiree de Herbert .. Herbes et fleurs de la Mer de Sargosse
Engraved by J.V.Schley, published in Prevost’s Histoire Generale Des Voyages, about 1760. Copper engraving. (more…)
West Street D’Urban Natal
Hand-coloured engraving (more…)
West Street D’Urban Natal
Hand-coloured engraving (more…)