Solomon Caesar Malan: Aquarelles; Akwarelle die Universiteit van Stellenbosch by Booysen B
Solomon Caesar Malan: Aquarelles; Akwarelle die Universiteit van Stellenbosch by Booysen B
Hardcover
Publisher: Human & Rosseau, 1970
Book and DJ Very good. DJ spine faded and slight edge wear. Book is very good with slight markings on some pages. Protected with Cellophane.
Complete. In English, Afrikaans and French.
Respected Swiss-born Huguenot landscape painter, who spent some time at the Cape in the mid 1800's. This is the first publication of the work executed at the Cape.
A mixture of luck and accident led to a Swiss-born Englishman from India painting a number of Cape scenes in 1839 and to this Africana treasure finding its way to Stellenbosch 30 years ago.
- Solomon Caesar Malan (1812-1894) was a brilliant young Swiss student who went to study at Oxford. He became a British citizen and accepted a professorship in classics in Calcutta, India, in 1837. His wife, Mary, had to return to England because of poor health, and he accompanied her as far as the Cape, where he remained for four months during the winter of 1839 before returning to India.
- During this short period, Malan, a 27-year-old amateur painter, produced approximately 90 unique paintings and sketches in pen, pencil, water colour and sepia wash: these included scenes of contemporary Cape Town and its environs as well as of his journey through Stellenbosch and Franschhoek to Genadendal and from there through the Helderberg basin back to Cape Town.
- One could regard these works of art from the time before the invention of photography as the equivalent of the photographs taken by the modern tourist - a way of recording one’s experiences.
