Rust-en-Vreugde Capetown: detail of façade

Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968)

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Rust-en-Vreugde Capetown: detail of façade

Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968); Fassler, John, 1910-1971; Rees Poole, Vivian Sydney (1883-1965); Leith, George Esselmont Gordon (1886-1965); Haddon, David Strachan (1905-1959)

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/9410

Date: 2009-03-31

Abstract:

Front elevation of the Cape Dutch homestead of Rust-en-Vreugde in Cape Town, measured by V.S. Rees Poole, Gordon Leith and D. S. Haddon, and redrawn by John Fassler for prof. Geoffrey Pearse's book "Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa" – see page 41 for a description, and Plate 31 for the drawing. It displays a teak portico and balcony resting on Corinthian columns.