Lot Essay
For a similar drawing by Burchell, omitting the European figures, and dated '15.3.1811' see R.F. Kennedy, Catalogue of Pictures in the Africana Museum, VI, Johannesburg, 1971, B1751.
The son of a Fulham horticulturalist, Burchell spent five years teaching in St. Helena before arriving in Cape Town in 1810. He 'made drawings of Cape Town and vicinity, as far afield as Genadendal and Tulbagh, until 18 June 1811, when he started his journey into the interior [which] lasted until April 1815. He returned to England later in 1815 and spent the next ten years in arranging his botanical and zoological specimens, in propagating South Africa plants at Fulham and in writing his Travels in the interior of South Africa, v.I published in 1822 and v.2 in 1824. The originals of most of the illustrations in the Travels are in the [MuseumAfrica's] collection'. (R.F. Kennedy, op. cit., p. 42).
The son of a Fulham horticulturalist, Burchell spent five years teaching in St. Helena before arriving in Cape Town in 1810. He 'made drawings of Cape Town and vicinity, as far afield as Genadendal and Tulbagh, until 18 June 1811, when he started his journey into the interior [which] lasted until April 1815. He returned to England later in 1815 and spent the next ten years in arranging his botanical and zoological specimens, in propagating South Africa plants at Fulham and in writing his Travels in the interior of South Africa, v.I published in 1822 and v.2 in 1824. The originals of most of the illustrations in the Travels are in the [MuseumAfrica's] collection'. (R.F. Kennedy, op. cit., p. 42).