Andrew Arthur Anderson (active 1850-1896)

Vaal River, South Africa, 1869

细节
Andrew Arthur Anderson (active 1850-1896)
Vaal River, South Africa, 1869
inscribed and dated 'Vaal River/S Africa/1869' (upper left), inscribed 'Vaal River' (lower left)
watercolour
8½ x 16½in. (21.6 x 42cm.)

拍品专文

The artist was a Scottish settler in Natal who travelled extensively in southern Africa from 1860, and published Twenty-five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa in two volumes in 1887.

For a similar view of the Vaal River below Klipdrift by Anderson, dated 1873, see R.F. Kennedy, Catalogue of Pictures in the Africana Museum, Johannesburg, 1970, I, A54. The first diamond diggings on the Vaal River began at this site in 1869.