Album Containing Topographical Watercolours, Pencil, Ink, and other drawings, some of the South African Cape colony

An Unusual and Interesting Album Containing Topographical Watercolours, Pencil, Ink,
and other drawings, some of the South African Cape colony and its people
Dated 1839
Size: 24cm high, 20cm wide – 9½ ins high, 8 ins wide
Comprising five watercolours on paper card entitled ‘A Hottentot Warrior’ ‘A Hottentot’ ‘A Yahoo’ and two ‘Hottentot Women (beauties!)’. Two oval watercolours ‘A View of Table Bay. Cape of Good Hope’ and ‘A View of Cape Town’. Numerous poems, prints, ink and pencil drawings, a gouache of Vesuvius, two watercolours of Scotland and a humorous watercolour of a man with gout, his big toe being bitten by a tabby cat, dated 1835, the poem entitled ‘The Doctor and his Cat’.

Album Containing Topographical Watercolours, Pencil, Ink, and other drawings, some of the South African Cape colony

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