Important South African and International Art, Decorative Arts & Jewellery

Live Auction, 16 October 2017

Day Sale

Sold for

ZAR 28 420
Lot 409
  • Ives Stocker; 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
  • Ives Stocker; 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


Lot Estimate
ZAR 20 000 - 25 000
Selling Price
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.