Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope

dc.contributor	Romney, George, 1734-1802
dc.contributor.other	Medland, T.
dc.coverage.temporal	1775
dc.date.accessioned	2015-01-21T07:22:01Z
dc.date.available	2015-01-21T07:22:01Z
dc.date.created	1775
dc.identifier.other	solomon-98-romney
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10019.2/4363
dc.description	Published with descriptive text in Amsterdam. A reproduction of this engraving appears in Mendelssohn’s South African Bibliography, 1910, with the subtitle “Woltemaade’s heroic exploit, June 1st 1773”. Romney was a famous English painter who never visited South Africa.
dc.description.abstract	Depicting Wolraad Woltemade’s act of heroism, saving drowning people from the ship, Jonge Thomas in Table Bay, 1773.
dc.format.extent	14 x 20 cm
dc.format.medium	Coloured lithograph on paper
dc.rights	This item is subject to copyright protection. Reproduction of the content, or any part of it, other than for research, academic or non-commercial use is prohibited without prior consent from the copyright holder.
dc.source	Image from Hugh Solomon Collection, Africana.
dc.subject	Shipwrecks -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- Pictorial works	en_ZA
dc.subject	Wolraad Woltemade (Tug-boat) -- Pictorial works	en_ZA
dc.subject	Drowning -- Prevention -- Pictorial works	en_ZA
dc.subject	Heroes -- South Africa -- Cape of Good Hope -- Pictorial works	en_ZA
dc.subject	Woltemade, Wolraad, 1708?-1773 -- Pictorial works	en_ZA
dc.title	Shipwreck at the Cape of Good Hope	en_ZA
dc.type	Image	en_ZA
dc.rights.holder	Copyright Stellenbosch University