Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 16 October 2017
Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 25 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 28 420
About this Item
Ives Stocker
British 19th Century
Cape Town and Port of Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, from the road over the kloof or mountain pass and facing a glen
signed, dated 1818 and inscribed with the title in the margin
watercolour on paper
27 by 35cm excluding frame
Notes
Lieutenant Stoker commanded the Royal Engineers at the Cape circa 1816-19. He retired as captain on full pay in 1836.
Provenance
Sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, Johannesburg, 1973.
Literature
A Gordon Brown. (1975) Pictorial Africana, Cape Town: Balkema. Page 226.