View of Cape-Town, and the Table Land at the Cape of Good Hope, from a drawing by Hodges, late 18th century?
- Call Number:
- Folio A 2023 69
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Title(s):
- View of Cape-Town, and the Table Land at the Cape of Good Hope, from a drawing by Hodges
- Date:
- late 18th century?
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Series:
- Series I: A voyage from England to Bombay with descriptions in Asia, Africa, and South America
- Part of Collection:
- volume 9, page 61
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- The image shows Table Mountain, with Cape Town below and the ocean in the foreground. Bottom of page: an unattributed quotation, beginning, "Around the stormy Cape, the foamy waste bounds with convulsive horrors."
- Additional Notes:
- The image is pasted into the volume.
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : engraving ; 11 x 17 cm
- Genre:
- Engravings (prints), Botanical illustrations, Ornithological illustrations, Travel sketches, Maps, Watercolors (paintings), Drawings (visual works), and Portraits
- Subject Terms:
- Forbes, James, 1749-1819. Descriptive letters and drawingsForbes, James, 1749-1819. Oriental memoirs
- Associated Places:
- EnglandItalyScotlandWales
- Associated People/Groups:
- East India CompanyForbes, James, 1749-1819
- Finding Aid Title:
- James Forbes archive
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/11734.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3199793
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/3199793?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1