![]() Entrance Elevation Photographer: William Martinson |
![]() Entrance Elevation Photographer: William Martinson |
![]() Gable detail Photographer: William Martinson |
![]() Aerial view showing city context Photographer: Mike Bell - 2016 |
![]() Main entrance and right hand wing Photographer: Marieke Kuijpers - 2016 |
![]() VOC emblem on gable Photographer: Nicholas Clarke - 2016 |
![]() Statue of Neptune on gable Photographer: Nicholas Clarke - 2016 |
![]() Statue of Mercury on gable Photographer: Nicholas Clarke - 2016 |
![]() Entrance gates Photographer: Marieke Kuijpers - 2016 |
![]() 2c Stamp - 1982 07 15 from Fourth Definitive Series First Day Cover Caption with stamp: Click for full cover |
![]() Government House Source: 'Cape Town and the Picturesque Peninsula', published by the Cape Times, 1920s From the Collections of Parliament, Acc No 39800 (50) Submitted by Lila Komnick Photographer: Arthur Elliott |
![]() Drawing 248 of 365 by Shaun Gaylard Click for larger image |
![]() Information on Government House from the Cape Town Guide of 1897 Submitted by Lila Komnick |
![]() Receipt from Schutte to William Jones for work at Government House From Parliament’s collections. Acc No 39859 (25). Submitted by Lila Komnick |
![]() Interior of the Ball Room. Showing British Regency influences, it was built during Lord Charles Somerset's time. It is the same room - but with different furniture - depicted in Fig. 61 on page 50 of of the 1960 edition of prof. Geoffrey Pearce's book "Eighteenth Century Furniture in South Africa". Source: UP Space Photographer: Unidentified |