The Kafir wars and the British settlers in South Africa / a series of picturesque views from original sketches by T.W. Bowler ; with descriptive letterpress by W.R. Thomson.
Published / Created:
London : Day and Son ; 1865.Capetown and Port Elizabeth : J.C. Juta ; 1865.Graham's Town : C. Nixdorff ; 1865.E dinburgh : Hill, 1865.
Physical Description:
24 leaves, [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3264260
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lithographs drawn on stone by R.M. Bryson, F. Jones, and J. Needham; after Thomas William Bowler.
Contents:
Cape Point, H.M.S. Birkenhead -- Main Street, Port Elizabeth -- Market Square, Port Elizabeth -- Graham's Town, from the Bay Road -- Kowie, looking seaward -- Fort Beaufort -- Fuller's Hoek, Waterkloof in the distance -- Blinkwater Hill -- Mount Misery, Waterkloof -- Macomo's Den, Waterkloof -- Blinkwater Drift -- Fort Armstrong, Kat River -- Peffer's Kop -- Chumie -- Kieskamma, near Fort Cox, Amatola in the distance -- Burns' Hill Missionary Station -- Yellowwood Drift, Lenye Valley -- Wolf River -- Boma Pass -- King William's Town.
Subject Terms:
Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Description and travel. | Kaffraria. | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- History. | South Africa -- History -- Frontier Wars, 1811-1878. | Day and Son -- Publisher. | Day & Son -- Printer. | Juta, J.C. -- Publisher. | Nixdorff, C. -- Publisher. | Hill -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1865.
Contributors:
Thomson, William Rodger, 1832-1867. | Needham, Joseph, active 1848-1874, lithographer. | Jones, F., lithographer, lithographer. | Bryson, Robert M., active 1863-1876, lithographer. | Day & Son, printer of plates.
