Cape Jervis

Plate 45: Part of the text accompanying the illustration reads 'This scene is taken at low water from the rocks of micaceous schist that extend between Rapid Bay and Cape Jervis: it commands a fine view of the Cape, with the opposite shores of Kangaroo Island, about Antichamber Bay. Between Kangaroo Island and the mainland at Cape Jervis is one of the entrances to St Vincent's Gulf, called Backstair's Passage ... The birds represented upon the rocks in the plate, are cormorants, which abound along the sea shore.'

This is one of 60 coloured lithographs found in the 1847 edition of 'South Australia Illustrated' by colonial artist George French Angas, together with a descriptive passage for each. The lithograph was created by J.W. Giles from Angas' original painting. The date assigned is assumed to be approximately when the lithographs were created; the original paintings were done in earlier years