Important South African Art

Live Auction, 7 November 2011

Evening Sale
  • Cathcart William Methven; Plowman's Kop, Natal National Park, Drakensberg


Lot Estimate
ZAR 70 000 - 100 000

About this Item

South African 1849-1925
Plowman's Kop, Natal National Park, Drakensberg

signed

oil on canvas
60 by 49,5cm excluding frame

Literature

Nigel Hughes, Views in Colonial Natal, Craighall, 2005, page 46 and 47, illustrated in colour.

"This view of Plowman's Kop with Goodoo (Gudu) Bush on the left is seen from above the Cascades on the Marai (Mahai) Stream. Sir George Plowman, Administrator of Natal, became the first president of the Natal section of The Mountain Club of South Africa in 1919. Goodoo was one of several farms acquired in the same year by The Natal Parks Board in order to establish the Natal National Park. It was only in 1947, after the visit of the Royal Family, that the park was referred to as the Royal Natal National Park."

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