Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part II - Paintings, Watercolours, Prints and Sculpture
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About this Item
2 uncoloured engraved pictorial titles with dedications to Lieut. General Francis Dundas and David Davies, 30 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates printed on thick paper, with accompanying text printed in 3 columns, all mounted on guards, large folio, 60 by 46,5cm, half dark brown morocco and paperboards, some rubbing and few nicks on morocco binding, paperboards rubbed, a few marginal marks but plates in good condition, armorial bookplate John Gaspard Gubbins, 1st Edition, (London, 1804-1805).
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Sold: Volks Auctioneers, Pretoria, 24 February, 1999, Estate Late Mrs Elizabeth Rose (neé Gubbins), lot 30
In Mendelssohn's opinion this is 'The scarcest and most valuable of the large atlas folios of South African Illustrations'. Samuel Daniell arrived at the Cape on 9 December 1799. He was appointed by Lieutenant-General Dundas, who became his patron there, and to whom the first part is dedicated, to act as secretary to a mission to the 'Booshuanas'. The expedition eventually reached Lattakoo, at that time the limit of European exploration, and was the source for Daniell of the drawings for the plates.
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