Scene in Tsitsikamma

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Scene in Sitsikamma.

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Artist

Name:
Daniell, Samuel
Dates:
1775-1811
Country:
UK

Illustration

Subjects:
Animals, Landscapes & Places
Technique:
Etching
Engraver:
Daniell, Samuel
Format:
Landscape (wider)
Source:
The Smithsonian Libraries, The internet Archive

Book

Title:
African scenery and animals
Author:
Daniell, Samuel
Publisher:
London: Published by the author, n.d. [1804-1805]
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Description:

Hand-colored aquatint showing elephants in a stream, rocky banks, trees casting deep shadows, and bird's nests hanging from their branches. the author describes this scenery as follows:

This wild and uninhabited part of southern Africa is situated between Plettenberg's Bay and Algoa Bay, about five hundred miles from the Cape of Good Hope. It is intersected by rivers running through deep ravines, whose slanting sides are finely clothed with forest trees, some of uncommon growth and luxuriance. In these impenetrable forests are buffaloes without number, rhinoceroses, and elephants...

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