Browsing Hugh Solomon Pictorial Africana Collection by Title
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Officers pack horses in patrol order; Kafir women
Depicting soldiers packing and mounting horses and a scene in a native village respectively. -
Oriental architecture, painted by Polly Chromy from the original sketch by Timothy Touch’em’off, Esq. and respectfully dedicated without permission to the Municipality of Grahamstown … by Chalkstone.
Depicts one male figure talking lively to two female figures next to a structure. Satirical piece. -
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Part of the crew of his Majesty’s Ship Guardian endeavouring to escape in the boats
Depicts men in row boats in rough seas with the ship, Guardian in the background. -
Perspective view of the Cape of Good Hope
View of Table Bay with Table Mountain, ships and a number of buildings depicted simplistically. -
Prasident Kruger empfängt im Ausfuhrenden Rat eine Buren Deputation
President Paul Kruger receives a Boer deputation in a sitting of the Executive Council. -
Procession of the people of Whidah, to present offerings to the grand snake; Ceremonies used at the coronation of the King of Whidah, on the Slave Coast
Two engravings depicting African scenes. -
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Reede van de Kaap de Goede Hoop
Ships in Table Bay with Table Mountain and Cape Town in the background. -
Revd. J.T. van der Kemt, missionary
Portrait of Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, Dutch LMS missionary in South Africa. -
The Revd. Robert Moffat
Portrait of missionary Robert Moffat, with the banks of the Kuruman river and a Bechuana chief addressing his people in the background. -
Run with the 7th Dragoon fox hounds in Caffir Land, Cape of Good Hope
Depicts a fox hunt and a native village on either side of a river. -
Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope
Depicting Wolraad Woltemade’s act of heroism, saving drowning people from the ship, Jonge Thomas in Table Bay, 1773. -
Shooting a leopard
Depicting a leopard disemboweling an antelope with hunters aiming at the leopard in the background. -
Shooting the hyaena
Depicting a hyeana devouring a sheep with hunters in the background shooting from a wagon. -
Simon’s Bay from the top of Red Hill Road
Depicts Simon’s Town with ships in the bay. Includes key to 30 important points of interest. -
Simon’s Town (the naval depot) Cape of Good Hope
“Two fishing vessels lie in the foreground; the building just ot the right of the flagstaff is Admiralty House, and the long building to the left was the hospital and magazine” – Thomas Bowler of the Cape of Good Hope by ... -
Sir Henry Loch, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
Portrait of Sir Henry Loch, Governor of the Cape Colony, 1889-1895.