Robert Jacob Gordon: Cape travels, 1777 to 1786

• • Is type of work 

    Books

By

• • Has author 

    Raper, Peter Edmund

Contributors

• • Contributor 

    Boucher, Maurice

Publisher

• Publication

  Houghton: Brenthurst Press, 1988

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1988

Is about

• Person

  • As subject 

    Robert Jacob Gordon

• Subject

  • As subject 

    topografie
  • As subject 

    reisbeschrijvingen (vorm)
  • As subject 

    aquarellen (medium)

• Period

  1777-1786

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Classification

• ISBN

  0909079358

Persistent URL

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

• https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/300122991