Lot 395: William John Burchell, Portrait of Júli

William John Burchell Portrait of Júli dated 12.8.15 in pencil and numbered 747 twice in ink pencil 32 by 22cm, unframed

William Burchell. (1824) Burchell's Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, volume II, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Browne and Green. Footnote, page 160, illustrated as Plate 3."This portrait was drawn in August 1815; only a few days before I sailed from the Cape; but he continued in my pay nearly two years longer; after which he returned with his wife and child to Graaffreynet. He is here exhibited in his usual dress; a blue cloth jacket, leathern trowsers, a cotton handkerchief round his head, and another about his neck. It was by his own desire that he is represented holding his musket; and the position is that in which he used to carry it when approaching any wild animal."

Sotheby & Co, London, 14 May 1970, lot 62From the collection of Mrs M McCully, née Burchell (formerly Mrs Burchell Graham)