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Robert Jacob Gordon

149 works

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Pen and watercolor sketch of a San family with children, women cooking over a fire and a pot, under a tree.

San-huishouden met vuur en kookpotten

1779

Watercolor of a group of people by a fire on a beach, with a woman nursing a child, an archer, and rounded huts behind them.

Homestead of the so-called Strandlopers (San or Khoikhoi) just north of the Orange River’s mouth

1779

Drawing of a knife and sheath with carved bird finials, geometric patterns and Dutch handwritten notes.

A Tswana or Kora knife with its sheath

1777

Watercolor drawing of a stone cairn topped with an animal skull and bones, with mountains and huts in the background.

Grave of a Khoisan chieftain

1779

Watercolor drawing of a tent tortoise with a dark shell and yellow radiating lines, walking past a shrub and rocks.

Psammobates tentorius (Tent tortoise)

1777

Two hand-coloured tortoises walk side by side across sandy ground with small plants and pebbles, with a Dutch inscription bel

Homopus areolatus (Common padloper tortoise)

1777

Watercolor of a Namaqua chameleon with extended tongue perched on a branch with green conifer sprigs.

Chamaeleo namaquensis (Namaqua chameleon)

1777

Three green chameleons on a branch, one extending its tongue to catch a fly, drawn in watercolor and ink.

Bradypodion pumilum in three poses (Cape dwarf chameleon)

1777

Pen and watercolor drawing of a green chameleon with a curled tail on a branch, with a Dutch caption below.

Bradypodion pumilum (Cape dwarf chameleon)

1777

Agama atra (Southern rock agama)

1777

Watercolor drawing of a spiny agama lizard with banded tail walking over pale ground beside sparse plants.

Agama hispida (Southern spiny agama)

1778

Watercolor panorama of a farmstead with buildings, fields, tents, oxcart and livestock beneath mountains and clouds.

Kweekvlei,the stock-farm of the widow of Zacharias de Beer, east of the Gamka river

1778

Watercolour landscape of a wide river winding through hills, with rocky ground and shrubs in the foreground.

The confluence of the Caledon and Orange Rivers, seen from the south-west

1777

Watercolour of giraffes on savanna with hunters firing rifles beside a large tree, mountains in the distance.

Giraffe-hunt near the Orange River in the vicinity of the Augrabies Falls on the Orange River

1778

Watercolor drawing of a distant island with ships at sea above, and a hilly farm landscape with huts, tents and wagons below.

Stock farm of Hermanus Engelbrecht, near the Kamiesbergen

1778

Drawing of a plain with a white tent, wagon, figures near a slaughtered ox, huts and mountains; a homestead scene below.

Robert Jacob Gordon at the kraal of the Khoisan leaders Gronjam and Doroep, with an ox being slaughtered as a peace r…

1779

Panoramic pen and watercolour drawing of hills, farm buildings, a circular kraal and tree groves with handwritten notes.

Stock-farm of Willem Prinsloo, near Bruintjes Hoogte

1777

Panoramic landscape drawing of hills and a bay with islands, with handwritten notes and lettered landmarks, dated 1784.

View of Saldanha Bay from the Witteklip

1784

Watercolor drawing of a patterned snake with pale eggs beside it and a close-up of its head, with Dutch inscription below.

Bitis atropos (Berg adder)

1777

Watercolor of a patterned horned viper in an S-curve with an enlarged head study at left and Dutch captions below.

Bitis cornuta (Hornsman adder)

1777

Hand-coloured drawing of a horned adder snake with a scale bar, a head detail, and handwritten Dutch annotations.

Bitis caudalis (Horned adder)

1777

Mugil cephalus (Flathead grey mullet)

1777

Fish of the order Mugilidae (mullet)

1777

Liza richardsonii (South African mullet)

1777

Unidentified tropical fish

1777

Labeo umbratus (Cape moggel)

1777

Lithognathus lithognathus (White steenbras)

1777

Coracinus capensis (Galjoen)

1777

Clarias stappersii (catfish)

1777

Genypterus capensis (Kingklip)

1777

Cheilodactylus fasciatus (Redfingers)

1777

Watercolor drawing of an ocean sunfish with stippled grey skin, shown beside a numbered scale bar, by Robert Jacob Gordon, 17

Mola mola (Ocean sunfish)

1783

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