To: Editor, Cape Monthly Magazine (27 July 1874)
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Title
To: Editor, Cape Monthly Magazine (27 July 1874)
Collection
Correspondence
Summary
A copy of a letter written by Wilhelm Bleek to the "Cape Monthly Magazine" and published in its Vol. IX, August 1874. In the letter Bleek commends the magazine for the quality of its chromolithographic reproductions of Joseph Orpen's copies of Bushman paintings. He points out, however, that some strokes representing rain (identified as such by one of Bleek's instructors) have been omitted from one of the chromolithographs of the Mangdong cave paintings - these are an essential feature of the painting, referenced in both Orpen's paper on the cave paintings and Bleek's own notes.
Date
27 July 1874
Keyword
Wilhelm Bleek (copy of letter to Editor "Cape Monthly Magazine", August 1874)
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