General
    General
    Object Auto ID
    72960
    Alternate Codes
    159818
    Common Name
    Watercolour
    Classified Name
    Quantity
    1.00
    Object Description

    The Parliament Collection:
    Camp scene with mountains in the background. To the right is a tent with a flag on top of it and in front there is a fire and a stretched out giraffe skin. Behind the tent are five huts. In the center of the image is a smaller tent with a flag on top of it and to the right of the tent are two people. (Part of a collection, see 34340)Camp dans le Pais des grands Namaquois, vers le Vis Rivier, ou il tua une Giraffe Femelle.; Camp in the country of the Great Namaquas, towards the Fish river, where he killed a female Giraffe.

    Provenance

    Purchased at Sotheby's, London in 1963

    Description
    Technique Types
    Distinguishing Features

    Mountains Tents Huts Giraffe hunting cooking fire

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    History
    Object Age Comment
    [1785-1795, 1811]
    Maker Comment
    LE VAILLANT, Francois, 1753-1824. Reinold, Johann Lebrecht
    Collector Comment
    Watercolour on paper
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