A Hopeless Dawn
Cathcart William Methven
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 120 000 - 160 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 47 345
Auction Catalogue
About this Item
South African 1849-1925
A Hopeless Dawn
signed and dated 1908
oil on canvas
75 by 127cm excluding frame
Literature
Nigel Hughes, Views in Colonial Natal, Craighall, 2005, page 56 and 57, illustrated in colour.
"On occasion Methven painted a scene after the event and this commemorates a shipwreck in the breakers, possibly that of the Cape wooden dandy Harry Mundahl which came ashore at daybreak on 31 January 1901, just north of Port Shepstone. Carrying sugar at the time of her wreck - in which no lives were lost - the Harry Mundahl of 122 tons was owned by the Port Shepstone Shipping Company."
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