A View near the Roode Sand Pass at the Cape of Good Hope

by Henry Salt

$3,250 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A lyrical South African view from the 'Roode Zand' Red Sand Pass inland from the Cape of Good Hope. Henry Salt, artist, traveller, diplomat and collector of antiquities, was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, England 14 June 1780. He was destined to be a portrait-painter, and on leaving school was taught drawing by Glover, the watercolour-painter of Lichfield. In 1797 he went to London and became a pupil of Joseph Farington, R.A., and in 1800 of John Hoppner, R.A. The

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