Samuel Daniell

Daniell is perhaps best known as the appointed artist for an expedition to Africa and the renderings he did there of African animals.[2] He was born in Chertsey. In December, 1799, he went to South Africa for the first time.[3] The drawings he made in southern Africa including a journey to Bechuanaland were published by his brother William Daniell in London.[1] During the trip to Bechuanaland he was named the official secretary and artist for the trip. The trip went from Cape of Good Hope to Bechuanaland.[3] He returned to England from the trip and co-published with William Daniell and Thomas Daniell, African Scenery and Animals, in 1804.[1][3]

He later on lived in Sri Lanka, then called Ceylon, from 1806 to his death from tropical fever.[3][4] Twelve of his drawings also were published by his brother in 1806 with the title: A Picturesque Illustration of the Scenery, Animals and Native Inhabitants of Ceylon.[1]

After Samuel Daniell's death, further engravings based on his drawings were published: In 1820, forty-eight lithographs titled Sketches Representing the Native Tribes and Scenery of Southern Africa, and in 1832, Twenty Varied Subjects of the Tribe of Antelopes.[1]

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  Korah-Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures. Aquatint 1805.
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  A Hottentot, a Hottentot Woman,
  a Kaffre, a Kaffre Woman,
  Aquatint 1805
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  Khoisan busy barbecuing grasshoppers
  Aquatint 1804
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  Trekboer making a camp
  Aquatint c.1804

• Sutton, Thomas. The Daniells: artists and travellers (Bodley Head, 1954).

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