Bowman & Co. (Pietermaritzburg)
1865 (ca)
A group of four Zulu men against a white backdrop, holding weapons.
Carte de visite
Pitt Rivers Museum1998.67.16
Publications history
Illustrated as figure 176.8 on page 173 of Elizabeth Edwards's essay 'Evolving Images: Photography, Race and Popular Darwinism', In Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts, edited by Diana Donald and Jane Munro (Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum / New Haven: Yale Center for British art, in association with Yale University Press, 2009). Also listed on page 324 of the 'Checklist of Exhibits' as catalogue number 111. [CM 27/11/2009]
Research Notes
Extract from note in RDF by Sandra Klopper (then History of Art Dept, University of Cape Town) 7 Sept 1995 - "Spring…was an inn keeper in Durban who seems to have died a destitute alcoholic in 1878. His will, which is not at all helpful for anyone interested in the album, is in the Natal Archive Depot in Pietermaritzburg" [CM 21/07/2006]
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