Important South African Art
Live Auction, 7 November 2011
Evening Sale
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
About this Item
signed and dated 1908
Literature
Nigel Hughes, Views in Colonial Natal, Craighall, 2005, page 56 and 57, illustrated in colour.
"On occasion Methven painted a scene after the event and this commemorates a shipwreck in the breakers, possibly that of the Cape wooden dandy Harry Mundahl which came ashore at daybreak on 31 January 1901, just north of Port Shepstone. Carrying sugar at the time of her wreck - in which no lives were lost - the Harry Mundahl of 122 tons was owned by the Port Shepstone Shipping Company."
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