General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    72997
    Alternate Codes
    159800
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    Fourteen drawings of musical instruments, implements, shoes, different kinds of smoking pipes, a drum and a drum-stick. Two different kinds of sandals and a shoe are shown. There is also a flute, a pan-pipe, a guitar and two kinds of musical bows. (Part of a collection, see 34340)14 numbered drawings of native musical instruments, implements and shoes.; See Notes for source: 1. Drum and drum stick (Kirby suggests Hottentot.) 2. Flute 3-4. Musical bows and beater (Kirby suggests Hottentot kha:s.) 5. Pan pipes (Kirby suggests north of Zambesi.) 6. Guitar (Kirby suggests Hottentot ramki.) 7. Smoking pipe made of bone or stone Hottentot 8. Smoking pipe Hottentot or Bushman 9. Smoking pipe 10-11. Switches of tail hair for flicking flies or wiping sweat Bushman or Hottentot 12. Shoe Hottentot 13. Sandal Hottentot (perhaps worn by Veldskoendragers) 14. Sandal (Xhosa?)

    Provenance

    Purchased at Sotheby's, London in 1963

    Description
    Technique Types
    Distinguishing Features

    Musical instruments Utensils, Kitchen Costume

    Measurement Type Unit Value
    Dimension Comments
    Unframed and mounted in a box; Image size (inside border) 500 x 317 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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