Ceres (inhabited place)
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Ceres, the Stream, 1900 - 1910
141 x 192 mm. Showing the tree-lined stream leading to a farmhouse and hills. This is presumably the Dwars River on which the town of Ceres, in the Western Cape lies.
Ceres, the stream, 1910
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
Michell's Pass, near Ceres, 1910
A series of watercolours commissioned from the Rhodesian artist Mrs Gilbert Stephenson to be used in colouring lantern slides to illustrate the fifth handbook, A.J. Sargent, 'South Africa: seven lectures (London, 1914). Stephenson had been recommended by the British South Africa Company.
Rocks near Ceres. North entrance of Mitchels' Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01
248 x 196 mm. Showing sheer rocky crags at the entrance to Mitchels' Pass (Mitchell's Pass) with the (?) Dwars River below. Additional note by C.W. Busk: 'There was a branch line railway through this pass in 1914. Railway not completed beyond Wellington in 1867'.
Rocks near Ceres, Warm Bokkeveld, north entrance to Mitchel's Pass [also spelt Mitchell's Pass]. Pool in River winding through. Jany 1867, 1867-01
244 x 196 mm. Showing a pool surrounded by boulder-strewn hillside in Mitchel's Pass (Mitchell's Pass). Although the title appears to suggest otherwise, Mitchell's Pass is located between what are now called the Witzenberg Mountains and Hex River Mountains just to the west of Ceres. The area known as Warm Bokkeveld is located a few miles NNE of Ceres.