Life in Africa a few centuries back. Hand colored engravings, plates from Samuel and William Daniell’s 1804 work on African scenery and animals. Drawn and engraved by Samuel Daniell. From a family of landscape artists, the Daniells brothers traveled extensively in Africa and Ceylon drawing as they went with their work being published after.

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"A Korah Hottentot Village on the Left Bank of the Orange River." Page 12.
“A Korah Hottentot Village on the Left Bank of the Orange River.” Page 12. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/Africanscenerya00Dani/page/n11/mode/2up
"Bush-men Hottentots Armed for an Expedition." Page 14.
“Bush-men Hottentots Armed for an Expedition.” Page 14. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/Africanscenerya00Dani/page/n13/mode/2up
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“A Kaffer Village.” Page 4. Collection of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/Africanscenerya00Dani/page/4/mode/2up

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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