Lot 346: Thomas Baines; South African 1820-1875; Watercolours, portfolio

Thomas Baines
South African 1820-1875
Watercolours, portfolio
Published by A Robinson&Sons, Johannesburg, 1967, a portfolio of six facsimile lithographic reproductions of original watercolours from The Africana Museum, Johannesburg, with critical introduction and notes on the plates by RF Kennedy in English and Afrikaans, loose, in original cardboard box.
photolithographs
sheet size: 43 by 56cm

Starting Bid: ZAR 10000

Sheets: oxidised, minor foxing and minor surface dirt. Box: significant wear and tear and surface dirt.

This lot is accompanied by a portfolio of four Thomas Baines prints, Villages of the Eastern Cape in the 19th Century, published by the 1820 Foundation, Grahamstown, with introductory text by JR Lorraine, as well as two complete South African Permanent Building Society calendars, for the years 1976 and 1977.