View of Cape Town, South Africa, 17th century illustration - Stock-Grafiken

View of Cape Town from the sea, circa 1660, from the book 'Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa' by Geoffrey Eastcott Pearse. Pearse was among the first to bring Cape architecture to a wide audience in a scholarly way. Eighteenth Century Architecture in South Africa was the result of many years of research on the topic and remains an important reference work for the subject. Published in 1933.