Important South African & International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 16 March 2015

Cape & Colonial Silver, Furniture & Dec Arts, The Harvey Collection of Africana & SA & Int Art

Sold for

ZAR 25 010
Lot 395
  • William Burchell; Portrait of Júli


Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 25 010

About this Item

South African 1781-1863
Portrait of Júli

dated 12.8.15 in pencil and numbered 747 twice in ink

pencil
32 by 22cm, unframed

Notes

This drawing formed part of the exhibition of the artist's work held at the Eastern Province Society of Arts and Crafts, catalogue number 22.

Provenance

Sotheby & Co, London, 14 May 1970, lot 62
From the collection of Mrs M McCully, née Burchell (formerly Mrs Burchell Graham)

Literature

William Burchell. (1824) Burchell's Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume II, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne and Green. Footnote, page 160, illustrated as Plate 3.

"This portrait was drawn in August 1815; only a few days before I sailed from the Cape; but he continued in my pay nearly two years longer; after which he returned with his wife and child to Graaffreynet. He is here exhibited in his usual dress; a blue cloth jacket, leathern trowsers, a cotton handkerchief round his head, and another about his neck. It was by his own desire that he is represented holding his musket; and the position is that in which he used to carry it when approaching any wild animal."

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