From the Pearse Collection: photograph of the inner hall of Koopmans de Wet House, showing painted walls depicting a trompe l'oeil entablature and pilasters. A six-legged Queen Anne style settee (rusbank) with rattan seat, ...

From the Pearse Collection: photograph by Arthur Elliot of a drawing of the interior of the Dutch Reformed Church in Adderley Street, Cape Town. There is an organ towards the back, and large columns support the vaulted ...

Photograph by H.H. McWilliams of the interior of a roof to show its wood-beam construction. It appears as Fig. 19 on page 19 of prof. Geoffrey Pearse's book "Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa". Steep thatched ...

Photograph depicting an ornamental silver key escutcheon. It appears to be from mrs. Gordon's coromandel chest of drawers, not original but copied from a box at Koopmans de Wet House. It is shown in Fig. 142 on p. 116 of ...

Photograph depicting at an escritoire with ball-and-claw feet, housed at Koopmans de Wet House. It has a decorative cornice and four drawers, the fronts of which are shaped in plan. See also Fig. 48 on p. 39 of the 1960 ...

Front elevation and part plan of the stoep of the Koopmans De Wet House on Strand Street in Cape Town, attributed to Thibault. Drawings by John Fassler from measured drawings by V.S. Rees Poole for prof. Geoffrey Pearse's ...

Drawings of joinery details of the Cape Dutch house La Provence near French Hoek [Franschhoek], including a wall cupboard, an internal screen door, an escutcheon plate, and a door in the north front. The drawings were ...

Photograph depicting a built-in small wall cupboard with glass doors and a gabled pediment. It appears to be the same wall cupboard from La Provence depicted in Plate 25 (measured by Norman Hanson and drawn by Pearse) on ...

From the Pearse Collection: photograph depicting a living room with beamed ceiling, date unknown. The furniture, perhaps from the 1940s, is arranged around a fireplace flanked by bookcases. Photograph probably considered ...