Browsing Hugh Solomon Pictorial Africana Collection by Title
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Cafers or Hottentots assembled for the admission of their youth to the state of manhood at the Cape of Good Hope
Scene depicting a ritual initiation. -
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Caffres hunting a lion
Depicts native hunters spearing a lion, with one wounded hunter in the foreground. -
Le Cap de bonne Esperance
Depicting Table Bay with ships, Cape Town and Table Mountain in the background. -
Cape of Good Hope
A view of Table Bay with a prominent British ship and rowing boat in the foreground, with other ships, Cape Town and Table Mountain in the background. -
The Cape of Good Hope
Depicting Table Bay with ships, Cape Town and Table Mountain in the background. -
Cape Town from Tamboer’s Kloof, Lion’s Hill
Depicts three Malay figures with a view of Cape Town and Table Bay in the background. -
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Cape Town, near the Amsterdam Battery
Depicts boats and the harbour in the foreground with Cape Town and Table Mountain in the background. -
Cape Town, on the beach near the Military Hospital
Boat in foreground with Cape Town, Lion’s Head and Signal Hill in background. -
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The capture of Fort Armstrong, Kaffir Land – Feby. 22nd 1851, by the Royal Artillery, the Cape Mounted Rifles the Fort Beaufort burghers, and the Fingo Corps; under the command of Major Genl. H. Somerset, C.B.
Picturing a group of native women in the foreground, a battle, and Fort Armstrong village in the background. -
Cartoon
Depicts two horsemen trying to cross a breaking bridge. Caption reads: “I have no idea what could induce me to follow you over this d----d rotten bridge”. -
Cartoon
Depicts two horse riders. Caption reads: “I say Bob you addent an idea I could ride so well ad you? I can’t look just now, for I have an idea I an’t got exactly in the right seat”. -
Cartoon
Depicts two jockeys racing, one falling from his horse. Caption reads: “I have an idea I shall win now, if I can but carry in my weight”. -
Cartoon
Depicts two jockeys, one fallen from his horse. Caption reads: “My good fellow, I have an idea that I shall be right on the top of you”. -
Charge on the Gwanga, Cape of Good Hope, on the 8th June, 1846
Depicts a battle scene in a valley by a river. -
The conference at Block Drift, Kaffir Land, Jany. 30th 1846; between Lt. Governor Col. Hare and the Kaffir Chief Sandilla – before the commencement of hostilities
Depicting the lines of the respective armies facing each other before battle with a mountain in the background. -
Crossing the Berg River
An ox wagon being drawn across the riiver, group of figures and Karee trees in the foreground, with a farm house and landscape in the background. -
D. Baird
Portrait of Sir David Baird, British general and head of the troops who took over the Cape in 1806.