An account of the life and work of British artist and traveller Samuel Daniell (1775-1811), who visited the Cape during the First British Occupation (1795-1803). He was part of the Truter-Somerville expedition (1801-1802) and made the first images of the Tswana and their country; sketched the Xhosa and Khoisan on the Cape frontier regions; and depicted many animals of southern Africa in sketches, drawings and watercolours.