Robert Jacob Gordon 1743-1795: the man and his travels at the Cape

• • Is type of work 

    Books

By

• • Has author 

    Cullinan, Patrick

Publisher

• Publication

  Cape Town: Struik Winchester, 1992

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1992

Is about

• Person

  • As subject 

    Robert Jacob Gordon

• Subject

  • As subject 

    topografie
  • As subject 

    aquarellen (medium)
  • As subject 

    reisbeschrijvingen

• Period

  1743-1795

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Classification

• ISBN

  0947430334

Persistent URL

• To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

• https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/300122992