Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraf) Giraffa camelopardalis (giraffe) Object Type: drawing album leaf Object number: RP-T-1914-17-150 Inscriptions / Brands: annotation, to the left and below in the margin, pen and Brown, "scale [no usual size] ; Camelopardalis in Sijne stepping Form; ... '5 lines description of the means of locomotion, the meat and marrow tastes and that she just a young generation (in Gordon's handwriting full text: LC Rookmaker, Appendix I his thesis) Description: Running giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis); with scale distribution of the length of the warrior; Khoikhoi keeps next to
Giraffa camelopardalis (Giraf) Giraffa camelopardalis (giraffe) Object Type: drawing album leaf Object number: RP-T-1914-17-150 Inscriptions / Brands: annotation, to the left and below in the margin, pen and Brown, "scale [no usual size] ; Camelopardalis in Sijne stepping Form; ... '5 lines description of the means of locomotion, the meat and marrow tastes and that she just a young generation (in Gordon's handwriting full text: LC Rookmaker, Appendix I his thesis) Description: Running giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis); with scale distribution of the length of the warrior; Khoikhoi keeps next to compare his assegai as ruler omhoog. Manufacturer : artist: Robert Jacob Gordon Date: Oct 1779 Physical features: pen and brush in ink, brush in watercolor in colors, traces of a signature in pencil and black chalk, slightly heightened with white, double frame lines surrounding the representation and the bottom margin, brush in dekverf Material: paper finishing paint ink watercolor pencil Technique: paintbrush / pen Dimensions: album leaf: h 660 mm × W 480 mmblad: h 535 mm (including margin with a caption.) × b 413 mmbeeld: h 457 mm (inner frame) b × 411 mmToelichtingLeefde in Namaqualand, but there is now extinct; 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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