Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Exploring the globe with a Victorian eye. Imagery from George French Angas’s 1849 work “The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes: also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.” He also did illustrated books along the same lines for New Zealand and Australia which are the subjects of earlier posts here.
Cape Town from the Camps Bay Road. Cape Colony (South Africa). George French Argas, artist (and author). Page 6, Image 36 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/6/mode/1upKarel, a Malay priest, at prayer: his wife Nazea. George French Argas, artist (and author).Plate 2, Image 25 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n24/mode/1upBavian’s Kloof (The Glen of Baboons, Genadendal. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 48 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n48/mode/1up Umpanda, the King of the Amazulu. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 59 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n59/mode/1upPanda Reviewing his Soldiers at Nonduengu.George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 63 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n63/mode/1upZulu Kraal on the Umgani, with Cattle and Sheep. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 77 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/16/mode/1upMouth of the Umvoti River, on the Indian Ocean, Natal.George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 81 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n81/mode/1upSoldiers of King Panda’s Army. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 88 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n88/mode/1upScene in a Zulu Kraal, with Huts and Screens. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 91 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n91/mode/1upEvening Scene on the Umnonoti River. George French Argas, artist (and author).Image 94 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n94/mode/1upThe New Antelope from Saint Lucia Bay.George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 117 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n117/mode/1upNew and Remarkable Species of Lepidoptera, from Natal and the Zulu Country.George French Argas, artist (and author). Image 120 of The Kafirs illustrated in a series of drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakosa tribes : also, portraits of the … other races inhabiting southern Africa.Published in 1847 by J. Hogarth, Haymarket, London. Collections of the National History Museum Library, London. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/kafirsillustrat00anga/page/n120/mode/1up
George French Argas was an English explorer, naturalist, painter and poet. In 1846 he went to what is now South Africa, where he spent two years in Natal and the Cape. I don’t think he was one of those artists who accompanied explorers because the book these are taken is dedicated to Major-General Sir Harry Smith, Bart. G.C.B. who was Her Majesty’s High Commissioner for the Cape of Good Hope.
Also, this is more faded out than many of these and I can’t make out the names of the lithographers for the various plates. Often the lithographer (s) is listed on the title page but not here.
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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