SOLDFalse Bay, Cape of Good Hope, circa 1920
Mounted (ref: 2894)
Signed on the reverse,
Watercolour on card,
13 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (34 x 53 cm.)
Provenance: acquired from The Fine Art Society in 2006
SOLDProvenance: acquired from The Fine Art Society in 2006
The Cape of Good Hope is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In fact, the southernmost point is Cape Agulhas, about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the east-southeast. The currents of the two oceans meet at the point where the warm-water Agulhas current meets the cold water Benguela current and turns back on itself—a point that fluctuates between Cape Agulhas and Cape Point (about 1.2 kilometres east of the Cape of Good Hope).
