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Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806
Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 1990.
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| author | Geldenhuys, Margaretha Johanna |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/67352 Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 Geldenhuys, Margaretha Johanna Grobbelaar, Pieter Willem Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Afrikaans and Dutch. Africana Painting -- South Africa -- History Art -- South Africa -- History Dissertations -- Afrikaans culture Thesis (MA) -- Stellenbosch University, 1990. The object of this study was primarily to investigate the value of pictorial Africana as a source of cultural-historical information and to accentuate their importance. Pictorial Africana refers to all pictures or illustrations in books and magazines, original paintings, drawings, engravings, etcetera, which depicts objects and/or people of Africa (with specific reference to the Cape of Good Hope). The artistic value of these pictures is of lesser importance to the cultural-historian. The contents of the pictures should rather be informative. Therefore the more true to life and accurate a picture the greater its value from a cultural-historical point of view. The study starts with the establishment of a settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 and extends to the end of the Batavian reign in 1806. A new era under British reign commenced after this period. Originally it was planned to let the study extend to the end of the eighteenth century. It was, however, found that such a wealth of subject-matter was available that it would be impossible to do justice to all of it within this study. It was therefore decided to limit the study to the central part of Cape Town. The main source of subject-matter for this study is pictures. Most cultural-historical information were obtained from pictures but it is, however, not possible to use only pictures as subject-matter because the contents thereof should be identified and investigated. This can only be done if sufficient background information is available. To this end primary sources like accounts of journeys, historical maps (which were exceptionally useful), testaments (wills), death-, marriage- and baptismal certificates, inventories of estates and deeds of transfer were used to verify the correctness of the pictures. Secondary sources were, however, also used in a few instances. Most of the pictures described in this study are part of large public collections, e.g. the Africana Museum in Johannesburg, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Cape Archives, the South African Library, the William Fehr Collection in the Castle and Rust-en-Vreugd, the Mendelssohn Collection in the Houses of Parliament and the collection of the South African Cultural Historical Museum in Cape Town. Several pictures from early accounts of journeys as well as some from private collections are also included. After the limits of the subject were established a catalogue of all the pictures traced was compiled. All pictures which are listed were made between 1652 to 1900. Certain information (if available) on each and every picture is recorded in the catalogue. This incorporates the date the pictures were made and its title, the artists’ name, the medium, the dimensions in millimetres, the origin of the picture, cultural-historical subjects depicted and the names of other sources where the pictures were reproduced. A selection of the forty most representative pictures was made from the catalogue. These pictures and their artists are discussed in detail. With the exception of only two (namely Anna Maria Truter and Joppehus Jones) none of the artists discussed were born in the Cape. They were all either travellers or people who had only a short stay at the Cape, with Robert J. Gordon and the abovementioned two being the exception. The artists discussed were Schouten, Dapper, Meijer, Van Leeuwen, Kolb, Valentyn, Heydt, Rieght, Rach, Nurlik, Gordon, Schumacher, Davis, Jones, De Jong, Barrow, Barnard, Truter, Daniell as well as a couple remaining anonymous. This discussion covers the bulk of this dissertation. Although the selection of pictures attempts to be representative of all the pictures in the catalogue, the preferences of the artists, their interpretations and love for what is beautiful (like panoramas of Table Bay and Mountain) necessarily leaves gaps in the data source. The pictures are divided chronologically in three periods, namely: the early period (1652–1749); the flourishing period (1750–1795) and the first British occupation and the Batavian government (1795–1806). Each picture is discussed separately under the following three main points: (1) the artist; (2) the contents of the picture and (3) the relevant themes. The following themes were generally discussed (where relevant): architectural, art, commerce, interiors, clothing, homecraft, furniture, panoramas, street scenes, recreation and transport. Masters 2012-08-27T12:09:48Z 2012-08-27T12:09:48Z 1990 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/67352 af Stellenbosch University 358 pages : ill application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Africana Painting -- South Africa -- History Art -- South Africa -- History Dissertations -- Afrikaans culture Geldenhuys, Margaretha Johanna Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title | Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title_full | Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title_fullStr | Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title_short | Pikturale Africana as kultuurhistoriese bron : met spesiale verwysing na Kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| title_sort | pikturale africana as kultuurhistoriese bron met spesiale verwysing na kaapstad van 1652 tot 1806 |
| topic | Africana Painting -- South Africa -- History Art -- South Africa -- History Dissertations -- Afrikaans culture |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/67352 |
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