General
General
Object Auto ID
74894
Common Name
Lithograph
Classified Name
PLATE, LITHOGRAPH
Local Name
Sketches of some of the various classes and tribes enhabiting [sic] The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and the interior of Southern Africa, with a brief Account Descriptive of the manners and customs of each; A Hottentot [sic]
Quantity
1.00
Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
A Khoi woman with a child on her right hip. She wears Western clothes including a bright red head scarf. In her left hand she holds what looks like a bag made of buck skin. (Part of a book, see 5272)

Provenance

Mendelssohn Bequest 1922

Description
Distinguishing Features

Khoi mother child

Inscriptions
numbered t.r., titled below image and lithographer named b.r. - Dickenson & Co.Lith outside border line
Measurement Type Unit Value
Dimension Comments
Bound as a book; Image size: 209 x 143 mm.
History
Object Age Comment
1851 (date from Mendelssohn - see Notes under first entry)
Maker Comment
W., J.
Production Place
London
User Comment
Dickinson & Co Lithographers
Collector Comment
Lithograph
Date Retrieved Reference Types Citation
Site Association
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