File:Bloubok.jpg

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Robert Jacob Gordon: Bloubok (Hippotragus leucophaeus).   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Robert Jacob Gordon  (1743–1795)  wikidata:Q2689391
 
Robert Jacob Gordon
Alternative names
Robert Gordon
Description Dutch explorer, drawer and naturalist
Date of birth/death 29 September 1743 Edit this at Wikidata 24 October 1795 or 25 October 1795
Location of birth/death Doesburg Edit this at Wikidata Cape Town Edit this at Wikidata
Work period circa 1768-1788
Work location
Cape Colony, today South Africa (1773-1774), Northern Netherlands (1774-1777), Cape Town (1777-1795)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q2689391
Title
Bloubok (Hippotragus leucophaeus).
Description
Part of the Gordon Atlas.
Date between October 1777 and March 1786
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1777-10-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1326,+1786-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Medium pen
medium QS:P186,Q165447
and brush and ink, brush and watercolor on paper
Dimensions height: 25.6 cm (10 in); width: 42.1 cm (16.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,25.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,42.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
Rijksprentenkabinet
Accession number
RP-T-1914-17-159
Object history 1914: purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Credit line Purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with support of friends of the museum
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dit is de blaauwe bok van de Caap, men heeft hem den Zeiran van Buffon genoemt, edog ten onregte; dewijl dit dier / wanneer men hem bij de beschrijving van den Zeiran in Buffon vergelijkt daar niet aan voldoet; So ook niet de Caapse Gemsbok / aan den Pasan, niet tegenstaande de beschreevene horens van den Pasan in buffon reell van den Caapsen Gemsbok sijn. egter siet men dat den Pasan / in Buffon een klein dier gesegt word te sijn, en dus geen horens van over de twe voet sou dragen.

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1. [-] 2. [-] 3. Voet 6 duijm Rijnlandse Maat.
References Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue.
Source/Photographer www.rijksmuseum.nl : Home : Info : Pic

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