The Jessie and Eliza Jane in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 1829

A hand-coloured aquatint by Edward Duncan, after William John Huggins, depicting the Jessie (left foreground; starboard broadside) and the Eliza Jane (right background; port quarter) with Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, in the background; it features the Table Mountain, and various buildings and ships. In the far right of the background can be seen a lighthouse at the bottom (Green Point Lighthouse?), and another on a hill to the left which is almost certainly Signal Hill; Lion’s Head is probably the hill behind it. In the right-hand corner of the foreground is a diagonal plank of floating wood inscribed ‘W.L[sic].Huggins’.

Object Details

ID: PAH8489
Collection: Fine art
Type: Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Duncan, Edward; Huggins, William John
Places: Unlinked place
Vessels: Eliza Jane (1826); Jessie (1826)
Date made: 1829
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 555 x 757 mm; Mount: 605 x 834 mm