Album Containing Topographical Watercolours, Pencil, Ink, and other drawings, some of the South African Cape colony (1800 to 1900 Anglo South African )

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Provenance: A gilt edged inscription states ‘For Annie Larkins a Christmas present from her affectionate and attached brother – Colin Robertson Larkins 1839’

Comprising five watercolours on paper card entitled ‘A Hottentot Warrior’ ‘A Hottentot’ ‘A Yahoo’ and two ‘Hottentot Women (beauties!)’. Two oval watercolours ‘A View of Table Bay. Cape of Good Hope’ and ‘A View of Cape Town’. Numerous poems, prints, ink and pencil drawings, a gouache of Vesuvius, two watercolours of Scotland and a humorous watercolour of a man with gout, his big toe being bitten by a tabby cat, dated 1835, the poem entitled ‘The Doctor and his Cat’.

An Unusual and Interesting Album Containing Topographical Watercolours, Pencil, Ink,
and other drawings, some of the South African Cape colony and its people
Dated 1839

Size: 24cm high, 20cm wide – 9½ ins high, 8 ins wide