Chinese School, early 19th Century, after William Marshall Craig

A View of the Cape of Good Hope

Details

Chinese School, early 19th Century, after William Marshall Craig
A View of the Cape of Good Hope
oil on brass
4 3/8 x 6in. (11.1 x 15.2cm.)

Provenance

with Martyn Gregory, London, 1989, cat.53, no.94b.

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Lot Essay

A copy by a Cantonese artist of the aquatint published by E. Orme, London, 4 June 1806, commemorating the taking of the Cape of Good Hope by the British in January 1806 (for which see R.F. Kennedy, Catalogue of Prints in the Africana Museum, I, A-K, Johannesburg, 1975, C153).

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