Notes

Comprising:

A manuscript diary containing Warres' account of his departure from Portsmouth on 17 February 1814, until his arrival in the Cape on 20 May 1814.

Stephen Simpson. (1814) Simpson’s Gentleman’s Almanack and Pocket Journal for the year of our Lord 1814. London: Whittingham and Rowland.

A manuscript account of Warres' time at the Cape while living at San Souci, his estate in Rondebosch. The diary includes a wagon journey to Knysna with Sir Jahleel Brenton, Commissioner of the Royal Navy in Simon’s Town, which began on 13 of March 1815 in wagons supplied by Lord Charles Somerset, the Governor of the Cape. The journey was to find out if it would be possible to ship wood back from Knysna to Simon’s Town for use by the Royal Navy.

A second manuscript account of Warres' time at the Cape, 1818, until his departure in 1821.

"On the 24th of that month I left San Souci. The residence of my talented and well informed friend, Colonel Warre, the Deputy Quarter Master-General. Accompanied by him and Colonel Graham, the commandant of Simon's Town." Jahleel Brenton. (1846) Memoir of the Life and Services of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton, London: Hatchard and Son. A copy of this book is included in the lot.

A ledger of bills paid between 1815 and 1818.

A sketch book inscribed “Sketches by Sir William Warre, Mostly Cape of Good Hope, 1817”
Comprising: A ground plan of a building (possibly the Castle); Facade of the same building; Country Town with Distant Mountains with the Artist Sketching (possibly Stellenbosch); Close-up Study of Same Country Town; Valley with Buildings Along a River; Mountains by the Sea; Wagons Approaching Town; Coastal Scene incomplete; Great Braak River, Cape of Good Hope (inscribed with the title); Knysna 1817 (inscribed with the title, depiction of Knysna Heads); Knysna 1817 (inscribed with the title, a view across the lagoon towards the heads); Knysna (inscribed with the title, incomplete view of house); Little Devils and Caroline (inscribed with the title); Gowkamma River (inscribed with the title); Duivenhoeks River/; van Rensburgs, 1817 (inscribed with the title); Kayman’s Gat, Pass, 1817 (inscribed with the title on the reverse); Fraka-de-kow, Pass, 1817 (inscribed with the title on the reverse); Gwkamma Veldcornet, 1817 (inscribed with the title); Westford, Knysna, 1817 (inscribed with the title, Wexford, George Rex home); Mosselbay, 1817 (inscribed with the title); Coastal Scene with Houses; Sketching Trees in the Knysna Forest; English Country House; Sketch of a Town from a Distance; Hull of a Sailing Ship; Sailing Ship at Sea; Figures incomplete; Lady with Basket; Portuguese Flag and Figures; Old Seated Lady (loose sketch) and Man Smoking Pipe (loose sketch).

A folder of 11 loose working sketches done in pencil, pen and ink: two depicting Knysna Scenes; Forest Scene; Country House with Wagon; Landscape with Buildings; Buildings in Undulating Landscape; Houses, one with Cape Dutch Gable; Houses near the Bay; Studies of a Country Town over Four Pages; Valley with Trees; Kayman’s Gat; Wagons Approaching Town

Four complete and framed watercolours, each inscribed with their respective titles on the reverse:
Top of the Kayman’s Falls (?) in Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope
26,5 by 44cm

East Ferry near the Lake Knysna, Cape of Good Hope
31 by 44cm

Duiven Hooke River near Plettenberg Bay, Cape of Good Hope
33 by 45cm

Veldt Kornet Lospers Valley in Swellendam, Cape of Good Hope
33 by 44cm

And an unframed complete watercolour, signed with the artist’s initials, dated 1818 and inscribed with the title on the reverse

View of the Trakoo de Kow Pass, Cape of Good Hope
41 by 33cm, unframed