General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    79774
    Alternate Codes
    230988
    Common Name
    Lithograph and wood engraving
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    36 lithographs (35 hand-coloured & lightened by varnish), 11 wood engravings. The kafirs [sic] illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribesalso portraits of the Hottentot, Malay, Fingo, and other races inhabiting Southern Africa : together with sketches of landscape scenery in the Zulu country, Natal, and the Cape Colony

    Provenance

    Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

    Description
    Technique Types
    Distinguishing Features

    p1 Tamboerskloof plate 5 Hottentots Holland p. 27: Natal. Zulu villages. 1846-7 p. 48: Umvoti mission station. Natal. 1846-7 p. 48: Natal. Missions, American Protestant. 1846-7 pl. 10: Genadendal. Baviaan's Kloof. 1846 pl. 18: Umvoti River. Natal. 1846-7 pl. 22: Umnonoti River. Natal. 1846-7 pl. 28: Durban. 1846-7 pl. 29: Antelopes pl. 30 and 31: Butterflies. Natal. 1846-7 For woodcuts:- Zulus. 1846-7 p. 9: Malays. 1846 p. 17: Indigenous peoples Hottentots. 1846 p. 21: Macomo [Maqoma], Xhosa chief. Portrait p. 21: Africans Xhosas. 1846-7 p. 23: Africans Pondos. 1846-7 For lithographs:- Africans. Zulus. 1846-7 African villages. Zulu. Natal. 1846-7 (plates 16, 21, 25, 26, 29) Natal. African villages. Zulu. 1846-7 (plates 16, 21, 25, 26, 29) front. Angas, G.F. Portrait pl. 1: Cape Town. 1846 pl. 2: Malays. 1846 pl. 3: Wynberg. 1846 pl. 4: Malays. 1846 pl. 5: Somerset West. 1846 pl. 5: Hottentots Holland Mountains. Cape Peninsula, 1846 pl. 5: Mountains. Cape Peninsula. 1846 pl. 5: Cape Peninsula. Mountains. 1846 pl. 6: Paarl. 1846 pl. 7: Indigenous peoples. Hottentots. 1846 pl. 8: Hottentots. 1846 pl. 9: Genadendal. Mission, Moravian. 1846 Natal. Rivers. 1846-7 (plates 18, 22, 27) Umlazi River. Natal. 1846-7 (plate 27) Musician. Musical instruments.

    Measurement Type Unit Value
    Dimension Comments
    Bound book; Sizes of lithographs vary 250 x 170 - 440 x 340 mm. Wood engravings vary 140 x 100 - 110 x 220 mm.
    History
    Object Age Comment
    1849
    Maker Comment
    ANGAS, George French, 1822-1886
    Production Place
    Collector Comment
    Hand-coloured lithograph and wood engraving
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