The Skirmish at Driekoppen, near Zwaartkopjes

Color lithograph by Gauci after C.B.; 7th Dragoon Guards and colonials firing on Free State Boers in positions on kopjes above the veldt, wagon and artillery train moving off into right distance, in 1845. Color lithograph by Gauci after C.B.; 7th Dragoon Guards and colonials firing on Free State Boers in positions on kopjes above the veldt, wagon and artillery train moving off into right distance, in 1845. Bell, who had arrived at the Cape Colony in 1830, was appointed Surveyor-General in the Cape Colony in 1848, retiring in 1872. He was an accomplished artist, heraldist, and designer of Cape medals and stamps. London, Parker Gallery, 1950.