Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraf) Giraffa camelopardalis (giraffe) Property Type: Drawing album leaf Item number: RP-T-1914-17-148 Inscriptions / Brands: annotation, left presentation, pen in brown: 'scale, Rhineland size. 5 Feet. 6 Duijm (in calligraphy; full text: LC Rookmaker, Appendix I of his thesis). Description: Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), graduated from the Khoikhoi in Rhineland size, the assegai as ruler omhooggehouden. Manufacturer : artist: Robert Jacob Gordon Date: Oct 1779 Physical features: pen and brush in ink, brush in watercolor in colors, pencil and black chalk, slightly h

Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraf) Giraffa camelopardalis (giraffe) Property Type: Drawing album leaf Item number: RP-T-1914-17-148 Inscriptions / Brands: annotation, left presentation, pen in brown: 'scale, Rhineland size. 5 Feet. 6 Duijm (in calligraphy; full text: LC Rookmaker, Appendix I of his thesis). Description: Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), graduated from the Khoikhoi in Rhineland size, the assegai as ruler omhooggehouden. Manufacturer : artist: Robert Jacob Gordon Date: Oct 1779 Physical features: pen and brush in ink, brush in watercolor in colors, pencil and black chalk, slightly heightened with white, double frame lines around the performance and lower margins, brush dekverf Material: paper finishing paint ink watercolor pencil technique: brush / pen Dimensions: album sheet: h 660 mm × W 480 mmblad: h 526 mm (including empty box below.) × W 368 mmbeeld: h 469 mm (inside frame) × b 363 mmToelichtingLeefde in Namaqualand, but is now extinct there; Gordon shot his first and Where: apparently one of the last giraffes (on Oct 12 1779.) .. also article L. C. Rookmaker: The observations of (1743-1795) on giraffes ... found in Namaqualand; in: Journal XXXVI / XXXVII- SWA Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, wind angle, SWA, 1981 / 82-1982 / 83, p. 71T / m 90, with afb. Subject: hoofed animals: giraffe (+ skeleton of an animal) Khoikhoi

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