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Watercolour no.5: 17,5 x 25 cm Annotated:'The trees are stone pines, originally imported by the Dutch or French. The little yellow patches are the graves of slaves of the original Dutch owners.' 'The trees get finer as one gets nearer Rondebosch and there are some really fine Pines and oaks. The undergrowth is a good deal of white poplar, which is now shedding its leaves and looking very shabby. . . Groot[e] Schuur is between the road and Table Mountain, on slightly rising ground, and surrounded with a garden still full of flowers and which might be made perfectly delicious' Journal, p.14). Groote Schuur was placed at the disposal of the touring party by C. J. Rhodes. The artist was looking in a westerly direction from the main lawn behind the residence, with what is now the hydrangea dell to the right of the Italian Stone Pine in the foreground. Native to the Mediterranean region, these mature specimens of Pinus pinea have since been replaced by their progeny. The present Rhodes Drive runs behind the trees in front of Table Mountain. The scene is very much the one Rhodes would have viewed from his bedroom window.
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TABLE MOUNTAIN FROM THE GARDEN, GROOT[E] SCHUUR, APRIL 1894 |
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