GRAHAM'S TOWN, THE CAPITAL OF THE EASTERN PROVINCE OF THE IN SOUTH AFRICA

About the product Lithograph, with later wash. Image area: 150 x 240 mm; Dimensions of recent mount surround: 270 x 358 mm. Near-fine condition. The view is of Grahamstown within thirty years of the arrival of the 1820 Settlers. No longer merely a garrison on the eastern frontier of the colony, it is also filled with houses and larger buildings, a last outpost of civilization. Graham's Town, the capital of the Eastern Province of the Cape Colony [Hand-coloured woodcut from'The Illustrated London News'of March 22, 1851] (Anonymous artist)