The Burgher Watch House: detail of façade

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Pearse, Geoffrey Eastcott (1885-1968)

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Front elevation and façade section of the the Burgher Watch House in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town, drawn by John Fassler from measured drawings by V.S. Rees Poole for prof. Geoffrey Pearse's book "Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa" – see page 40 for a description, and Plate 15 for the drawing. See also Plate 14 for a photograph by Arthur Elliot.

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300DPI TIFF file scanned with Canoscan 8000f, edited using Photoshop v7. File dimensions: 2468 x 1857 pixels. Size: 8.45 MB.

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Cape Dutch, 18th Century, Eighteenth century, Burgher Watch House, Façade, Cape Town, Greenmarket Square, Burgher Guard, Front elevation, Baroque style, Elliot, Arthur (1870-1938), Burgher Wachthuis, Drawings

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