APPENDIX XVII

NOTE ON PORTRAITS OF TRAVELLERS AND AUTHORS

Who have written about Bornu

Barth (in a frock-coat) in Petermann’s Account of the Progress of the Expedition to Central Africa, reproduced in Joseph Chavanne, Die Sahara, Wien, 1879, and in E. Schauenburg, Reisen in Central-Afrika, There is a later photo of Barth in Gustav von Schubert’s Heinrich Barth, 1897, and also one in Cust’s Modern Languages of Africa. The Royal Geographical Society of London have a photograph of him, full face, wearing his orders.

Beurmann. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Clapperton. The frontispiece to the account of his second expedition is a reproduction of a very fine portrait, painted by Gildon Manton, engraved by Edward Finden. The same portrait is reproduced in the four-volume edition of Denham, in Chavanne, and in Schauenburg.

Sir H. H. Johnston in his Pioneers in West Africa states that the original is now in the National Portrait Gallery. This is a mistake. The original appears to have been painted in duplicate. One is in the possession of John Murray, Esq., of 50 a Albemarle Street, whose firm published Clapperton’s book, and the other belongs to Col. J. K. Stewart-Mackenzie of Seaforth, Brahan Castle, Ross-shire. Col. Stewart-Mackenzie is the present representative of the Seaforth family, and from a note under a woodcut, on p. 7 of the London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles-Lettres for 1829, it appears that the portrait was painted for Lady Seaforth, mother of Clapperton’s friend Mackenzie, vid. p. 340 of the present work. A portrait of this Mackenzie by Raeburn is also in the possession of Col. Stewart-Mackenzie.

Mr. Murray’s portrait shows Clapperton as sandy-haired and of a pallid, almost ghastly, complexion—perhaps a result of his African experiences.

This same portrait was reproduced in Scribner’s Magazine for 1891, vol. ix, p. 186. A small copy of it in oils on wood, about 12 inches square, is in the possession of the Royal Geographical Society. A label on the back of it states that it was exhibited in 1905 at the Naval, Shipping, and Fisheries Exhibition, but I have not been able to trace how it came into the Society’s possession or when it was executed.

Denham. A portrait painted by T. Phillips and engraved by E. Finden (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1826) appears in the four-volume edition (1831) of Denham’s book, but not in the earlier editions; this portrait shows him bare-headed and wearing a burnous. There is a print of it in the Reference Department of the National Portrait Gallery and a woodcut in Scribner’s Magazine, 1891, vol. ix, p. 187.

The original is in the possession of John Murray, Esq., whose firm published Denham’s book. I was allowed to see both the Denham and Clapperton portraits by the courtesy of Mr. John Murray, jun. A copy was made some years ago and is in the possession of Dr. W. H. Denham Rouse of the Perse School, Cambridge, who is a collateral descendant.

There is also a miniature of Denham, in uniform wearing the Waterloo medal and carrying a sabre presented to him by the Bashaw of Tripoli. This was painted by Newton and is reproduced on p. 7 of the London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles-Lettres for 1829. The original is in the possession of Capt. H. A. Denham of 16 Hallam Street, W., as well as the Waterloo medal and the sabre. The originals of the water-colours reproduced in Denham’s book, a plated bowl used by the explorer in Africa, and a throne or curved wooden stool presented to him by the Sultan of Bornu (probably the same as or similar to the one mentioned in the account of the traveller’s first interview with the Sultan), are in the possession of Capt. L. S. Denham of Taywell, Goudhurst, Kent. Capt. Denham also informs me that the explorer brought home a Bornouese cloak, which he presented to George IV at Windsor.

Koelle. Photo in Cust, Modern Languages of Africa.

Matteucci. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Massari. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Nachtigal. There is a photo of him in a tobe and fez in his book. Another photo in European dress appears in J. Chavanne, Die Sahara, and another in D. Berlin’s Erinnerungen an Gustav Nachtigal, 1887. There is also a photo in Cust. A photo of him in evening dress is in the possession of the Royal Geographical Society of London.

Norris. Photo in Cust, Modern Languages of Africa.

Oudney. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Overweg. There is a portrait in Petermann’s Account, &c. This is reproduced in Chavanne and in Schauenburg, and in von Schubert.

Richardson. There is a portrait of him in a burnous with the hood drawn over his head in his book Travels in the Desert of the Sahara, 2 vol., London, 1848. This is reproduced in Chavanne. There is a print of it in the Royal Geographical Society’s collection, and also in the Reference Department of the National Portrait Gallery, where also is a small photo of a bust of him which was in existence in 1884. There is another portrait of him in a double-breasted frock-coat, buttoned up to the neck in Petermann’s Account, &c.[594]

Rohlfs. There is a portrait in Chavanne and numerous ones, taken at various periods of his life, in Guenther, Gerhard Rohlfs. The Royal Geographical Society of London have a very faded photo of him in gown, turban, and scimitar.

Schultze. Photo in Mecklenburg, From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile.

Toole. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Tyrwhitt. I have not been able to trace any portrait.

Vogel. There is a portrait in Petermann’s Account, &c., reproduced in Schauenburg. There is a portrait in native dress and turban in Chavanne.