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Title: Hottentots - Street Scene
Creator: Bell, Charles Davidson
Subject: Khoikhoi (African people) in art, Cape Town (South Africa)--Pictorial works, Cape Town (South Africa)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works, South Africa--In art
Description: Cape Town street scene showing one man with a bottle in his hand, who appears to be under the influence of alcohol, with two women, one of whom is smoking a pipe, watching the man, with a third woman asleep at the edge of the road beneath a wall on which appear various notices, one of which is about a meeting of the Temperance Society. Title taken from original painting.
Publisher: University of Cape Town Libraries. South Africa
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Date: 1830s
Type: StillImage
Format: Watercolours (paintings), 14 x 21.5 cm
Identifier: islandora:26371
Source: BC_686_C08
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Relation: BC686: John and Charles Bell Heritage Trust Collection
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Rights: This item is the property of the John and Charles Bell Heritage Trust. For permission to reproduce or quote, please contact the Special Collections of the University of Cape Town Libraries.