General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    72960
    Alternate Codes
    159818
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    Camp scene with mountains in the background. To the right is a tent with a flag on top of it and in front there is a fire and a stretched out giraffe skin. Behind the tent are five huts. In the center of the image is a smaller tent with a flag on top of it and to the right of the tent are two people. (Part of a collection, see 34340)Camp dans le Pais des grands Namaquois, vers le Vis Rivier, ou il tua une Giraffe Femelle.; Camp in the country of the Great Namaquas, towards the Fish river, where he killed a female Giraffe.

    Provenance

    Purchased at Sotheby's, London in 1963

    Description
    Technique Types
    Distinguishing Features

    Mountains Tents Huts Giraffe hunting cooking fire

    Measurement Type Unit Value
    Dimension Comments
    Unframed and mounted in a box; Image size (inside border) 198 x 299 mm
    History
    Object Age Comment
    [1785-1795, 1811]
    Maker Comment
    LE VAILLANT, Francois, 1753-1824. Reinold, Johann Lebrecht
    Collector Comment
    Watercolour on paper
    Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
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