Abraham de Smidt, 1829-1908, Artist and Surveyor-General of the Cape Colony by Bull, Marjorie
Abraham de Smidt, 1829-1908, Artist and Surveyor-General of the Cape Colony by Bull, Marjorie.
Hardcover, ISBN 9780620049177
Publisher: M. Bull, 1981
Used - Very Good Book and DJ. Protected with Cellophane.
1981. First Edition.
164 pages, frontispiece portrait, 26 colour illustrations, many black and white illustrations in the text, light foxing on the fore edge, black cloth titled gilt on the spine, a good copy in the dust jacket.
Abraham de Smidt was a topographical draughtsman and many of his South African landscapes reflect his journeys around the country as a surveyor. He was renowned for his landscape painting (he was a pupil of Thomas Bowler) and active in the fine arts exhibitions in the mid-1800s. Included is a catalogue of paintings of which 26 are reproduced in colour and 30 in black and white. There are a further 47 illustrations in black and white.
