Kaap de GOEDE HOOP & WAGNER




031  Flying Dutchman -the ´Flying Dutchman´

The Flying Dutchman - From An Old German Print.
link: www.john-howe.com  from his very interesting blog about  'flying ships'
  ©: unknown
tags: #flying dutchman



ref. # 031a  Flying Dutchman -'the Flying Dutchman'

completed by 1887 Albert Pinkham Ryder Born: New Bedford, Massachusetts 1847 Died: New York, New York 1917
oil on canvas mounted on fiberboard 14 1/4 x 17 1/4 in. (36.1 x 43.8 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum
  ©: americanart.si.edu



ref. # 031b  Flying Dutchman -the 'Flying Dutchman' Stanislav Plutenko

"White-sailed amain, till lost from view.
Cloud chases cloud across the blue
And shadow ships the race renew
In shadowland"
Excerpt from "Shadowland" by P. Morgan Watkins, Pall Mall Magazine, vol. V, January 1895
via: www.john-howe.com

  © painting: Stanislav Plutenko
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tags: #Stanislav Plutenko #Flying Dutchman #Pall Mall Magazine #P. Morgan Watkins



031c  Flying Dutchman -the ´Flying Dutchman´

the Flying Dutchman 'El Holandès Errante' by Hans Printz (1913)
  ©: PD
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tags: #flying dutchman; #el holandes errante



ref. # 031d  Flying Dutchman -the ´Flying Dutchman´

When you know more about this artwork, please let me know (robertschilder&gmail.com)
  ©: source unknown

Here's another interesting link: hubpages.com
tags: #flying dutchman



ref. # 032  Flying Dutchman -KLM and the ´Flying Dutchman´

poster KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) 'de Vliegende Hollander', 'the Flying Dutchman'

NB: There is no obvious link between an airline company and a condemned captain other than the title "Flying Dutchman" ..
  ©: KLM
tags: #KLM #Vliegende Hollander #Flying Dutchman



ref. # 032a  Flying Dutchman -Wagner's Opera 'the Flying Dutchman'

"As a result of his mounting debts, Wagner's passport had been confiscated in Riga and so it was necessary that he be smuggled across the border to Konigsberg where they set sail for France. A journey that should have taken eight days, due to foul weather eventually took three and a half weeks ..."
to read more follow this link: www.wagner-tuba.com
link: http://vzls.net/1IXViGX
  ©:
tags: #Richard Wagner #Flying Dutchman #opera



ref. # 033  South Africa - gravure bay Cape of Good Hope

Kaap de Goede Hoop H. Kobell jr. - Kopergravure. Afbeelding van de rede van Kaap de Goede Hoop
  ©: www.pinterest.com/WATERartproject/2014-simons-town/
tags: #Cape of Good hope #Kaap de Goede Hoop #Zuid afrika #H.Kobell #Bartolomeu Dias

"It was not without good reason that this promontory received the name Cabo da Boa Esperanca because Bartolomeu Dias, who discovered it at the command of the late King João in the year 1488, saw that the coast here turned northwards and north-eastwards towards Ethiopia-under-Egypt and on to the gulf of Arabia, which gave indication and expectation of the discovery of India, and for this reason gave it the name of Cabo da Boa Esperanca."
text: www.sahistory.org.za




033a  South Africa -Sarah Baartman

Sarah Baartman Displaying Sara Baartman, the ´Hottentot Venus´
Sadiah Qureshi
, , , Christ´s College, Cambridge
Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman (before 1790 - 29 December 1815) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who, due to their large buttocks (steatopygia), were exhibited as human zoo attractions in 19th-century Europe under name Hottentot Venus. ´Hottentot´ was the then current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and "Venus" in reference to the Roman goddess of love.
  ©:http://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.nl/2013/06/the-khoikhoi-hottentots-first-people-of.html
wikipedia
tags: #Saartje Baartman #Hottentot #South Africa #KhoiKhoi



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ref. # 033b  South Africa -´Table Bay´

Aernout Smit Table Bay, 1683 William Fehr Collection Cape Town Aernout Smit ´Table Bay´, 1683
  ©: William Fehr Collection
tags: #Aernout Smit #Table Bay



034  South Africa -The Landing of Jan van Riebeeck

The Landing of Jan van Riebeeck (1619-77), the Dutch in Cape Of Good Hope, South Africa on 6th April 1652. The Khoikhoi (Hottentots) in the painting were the first Africans to meet them.
painting by Charles BELL (1813-1882)
  ©: kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.nl
www.sahistory.org.za
link: Jan van Riebeeck Journal
'The first slaves at the Cape ...' www.sahistory.org.za
tags: #Jan van Riebeeck #Khoikhoi #Cape of Good Hope



034a  South Africa - Khoikhoi "Betty'

Artist Prince Roland Napoleon BONAPARTE (French, 1858 - 1924) (1858 - 1924) (French) (photographer, Details of artist on Google Art Project) Title: Betty, fillette hotentotte (Hottentot girl), 9 ans. Date: about 1890, albumen silver print, 171 x 114 mm, collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum
photographer: Prince Roland Napoleon Bonaparte (French - Betty, fillette hotentotte (Hottentot girl), 9 ans. - Google Art Project



Khoikhoi Wikipedia, Roland Bonaparte Wikipedia
  ©: Creative Commons Wikipedia
tags: #Prince Roland Napoleon Bonaparte #Hottentotte #Khoikhoi #Cape of Good Hope #Cape Town #South Africa



034b  South Africa - ´Habits of the Hottentots´, Men & Woman

hottentots link: www.oocities.org
  ©:  unknown
tags: #hottentots #khoikhoi #South africa



034c  South Africa - Xhosa students 1860

Xsosa students 1960 Xhosa students at Zonnebloem college in Cape Town, Cape Colony. From an old Cape Archives photo
  ©: Public Domain South Africa
tags: #Xhosa #Zonnebloem College #Cape Town Colony #South Africa



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