Important South African Art
Live Auction, 7 November 2011
Evening Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000
About this Item
South African 1849-1925
Plowman's Kop, Natal National Park, Drakensberg
signed
oil on canvas
60 by 49,5cm excluding frame
Literature
Nigel Hughes, Views in Colonial Natal, Craighall, 2005, page 46 and 47, illustrated in colour.
"This view of Plowman's Kop with Goodoo (Gudu) Bush on the left is seen from above the Cascades on the Marai (Mahai) Stream. Sir George Plowman, Administrator of Natal, became the first president of the Natal section of The Mountain Club of South Africa in 1919. Goodoo was one of several farms acquired in the same year by The Natal Parks Board in order to establish the Natal National Park. It was only in 1947, after the visit of the Royal Family, that the park was referred to as the Royal Natal National Park."
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