Pigeon House, Meerlust

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Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968)

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Plan and elevations of the pigeon house at the Meerlust homestead. Measured by Rex Martienssen and drawn by John Fassler for prof. Geoffrey Pearse's book "Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa" – see Plate 71 for the drawing, and pages 44-45 for a description. The hybrid gable appears to be a straight gable embellished with Baroque scrolls.

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300DPI TIFF file scanned with Canoscan 8000f, edited using Photoshop v7. File dimensions: 1155 x 1239 pixels. Size: 4.10 MB.

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Elevation, Cape Dutch, 18th Century, Eighteenth century, Huysing, Henning, Meerlust, Pigeon house, Myburgh family, Drawings

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