General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    71078
    Alternate Codes
    231169
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Local Name
    Resignation of the "popular members" of the Cape Legislative Council, 20th September 1850.
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    Monotone ink and wash painting showing one man standing at a table and 12 other men seated around him at the table. They all have documents and a pen stand in front of each of them. The standing man is gesticulating with a document in his outstretched left hand. A large group of spectators is seated in the public gallery at the back. A row of open sash windows along the back wall.

    Provenance

    Unknown

    Description
    Distinguishing Features

    Cape Town. Parliament. Legislative Council. 1850 Anti-convict agitation. Rivers, Porter, Godlonton, Brand, Fairbairn, Boyle (Clerk), Stockenstrom, Reitz and Cook.

    Inscriptions
    t.r signed Alf Hayes/2
    Measurement Type Unit Value
    Dimension Comments
    Dark brown wood frame; Visible image 300 x 282 mm.
    History
    Object Age Comment
    [1924] (see Notes)
    Maker Comment
    HAYES, Alf
    User Comment
    NCOP Exhibition to celebrate the opening of the renovated chamber August - December 2003.
    Collector Comment
    Ink and wash on paper
    Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
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