Brenda Nicholls Collection
Item set
- Alternative Title
- Brenda Nicholls Historical Materials
- Creator
- Brenda Nicholls (Collector)
- Description
- A curated set of 13 early-to-mid-19th-century paintings, sketches and manuscript items related to colonial frontier and landscape history in Southern Africa.
- Date Issued
- c. 1838–1853 (19th century)
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Historical Paintings
- Sketches
- Manuscript Notebooks
- Subject
- Colonial South Africa
- South Africa--History--Frontier Wars, 1811-1878
- British Army
- Primrose, James Maurice, 1819-1892
- Historical Paintings
- Manuscript Notebooks
- Format
- Digital images; manuscripts; notebooks
- Spatial Coverage
- Southern Africa
- Temporal Coverage
- 19th century (pre-1860)
- Extent
- 13 items
Items
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"This horrid war" - the newly discoverd diary of Captain James Primrose, 1851-53" - In: Quarterly bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 67, no. 2, April to June 2013. -
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British Troops Crossing the Orange River. Sir George Cathcart took the field against the Basutos in Dec 1852 crossed the Orange River with a well equipped force of 2500 trained men and encamped at Platberg on the Caledon River. Painted by James Maurice Primrose. -
On 6th February 1838 the life of Piet Retief moved towards its great climax and death along with those of his entourage at the hands of Dingaan's warriors. Retief had gone to Umgungundlovu, Dingaan's kraal, to receive from Dingaan a cession of the land between the Tugela and the Umzimvubu Rivers. The grant of this land is said to have been made in a document dated Feb. 1838 but which circumstantial evidence suggests might have been signed on the 6 Feb. The document which has been regarded by some as a sort of title deed to Natal is an enigma which Retief has bequeathed to historians. -
The notebooks have been published as a book, as follows: Dr Caroline Jackson (ed.), Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose, 34rd Regiment of Foot (Rhodes University, 2016). -
The notebooks have been published as a book, as follows: Dr Caroline Jackson (ed.), Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose, 34rd Regiment of Foot (Rhodes University, 2016). -
The notebooks have been published as a book, as follows: Dr Caroline Jackson (ed.), Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose, 34rd Regiment of Foot (Rhodes University, 2016). -
The notebooks have been published as a book, as follows: Dr Caroline Jackson (ed.), Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose, 34rd Regiment of Foot (Rhodes University, 2016). -
The notebooks have been published as a book, as follows: Dr Caroline Jackson (ed.), Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose, 34rd Regiment of Foot (Rhodes University, 2016). -
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Painting of Table Mountain, Cape Town, 1853.