25005 Artwork | SAHRIS

General

Object Auto ID

83920

Alternate Codes

159337

Common Name

Ink and watercolour on card

Classified Name

Painting

Local Name

St Helena; 14 small pen & ink sketches of St. Helena by E. Mayer, P.O.W., Deadwood Camp, surrounding a map of St. Helena by Capt. De Framond, P.O.W., Deadwood Camp.

Quantity

1.00

Object Description

The Parliament Collection:
Main image is an ink and watercolour map of St. Helena surrounded by 14 minature pen and ink drawings of particular sites on the island: Longwood, Jamestown harbour, Deadwood POW camp, Sandy Bay with the rock formations Lot and Lot's wife, The Briars - Napoleon's second lodging, St. Paul's church, Kent Cottage - where Gen. Cronje is living, House in Jamestown where Napoleon slept first, House of the magistrate, Broad Bottom POW camp, "Plantation" - house of the Governor, Napoleon's tomb, Jacob's ladder in Jamestown, St. Matthew's church with Diana Peak behind it.

Provenance

Purchase. See Library of Parliament Annual Report 1949, p8.

Description

Technique Types

Drawing

Distinguishing Features

St. Helena. Prisoner-of-war camps. Anglo Boer War 1901 Napoleon Gen Cronje Jamestown

Inscriptions

Below map on right "Map by De Framond, P.O.W., sketches by E. Mayer (Vrede) P.O.W." No date.

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Dimension Comments

In portfolio; Total image size 192 x 233 mm. Size of card 233 x 295 mm. Size of map 110 x 150 mm. Individual miniature pen sketches vary but approx 50 x 40 mm.

History

Object Age Comment

1901 (see Notes)

Maker Comment

MAYER, Erich (1876 - 1960) De Framond (see Notes)

Collector Comment

Ink and watercolour on cardboard

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