Christopher Webb Smith: An Artist at the Cape of Good Hope 1837–1839 — A. Gordon-Brown
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'Christopher Webb Smith: An Artist at the Cape of Good Hope 1837–1839' by A. Gordon-Brown examines the work of the English artist Christopher Webb Smith during his stay at the Cape in the late 1830s. Smith travelled extensively through the Cape Colony, producing detailed drawings and paintings of its landscapes, plants, animals and people, many of which provide valuable visual records of the region during the period. Gordon-Brown places Smith's work within the artistic and natural-history traditions of the nineteenth-century Cape, discussing both his travels and his surviving illustrations. The book is particularly valuable for its documentation of the Cape's natural environment and colonial society through Smith's eyes.
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Good condition, as pictured
Filed under: SA Art