Baines, Thomas.

The 74th and 12th Regiments Coming out of the Waterkloof 1851.

Limited Edition, No. 469 of 500. Heritage Fine Art 1976. Framed. Image size 370mm x 260mm, framed size 610mm x 500mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). The 74th Regiment Of Foot, The Highland Light Infantry, played a major part in the 8th Frontier War. This shows the Highlanders are in the front of the column with the Suffolk Regiment (12th) coming on behind and with the pickets protecting the column on either side. On the extreme left some Xhosa warriors can be seen beneath the euphorbia tree, while on the right the pickets are advancing towards the huts.

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Book number: 28814

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Baines, Thomas.

The Landing of the British Settlers in Algoa Bay in the Year 1820.

King George VI Art Gallery, Port Elizabeth, nd. Framed. Produced on 215 gsm China Embossed Natural paper. Image size 535mm x 380mm, overall print size 575mm x 420mm, framed size 730mm x 585mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame. Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). This famous picture illustrates a moment from the seminal event in the history of Eastern Cape settlement: the landing of the first sizable contingent of English settlers on the subcontinent. At the foot of the rise above the Bay are the tents that would shelter the 1820 Settlers temporarily, along with the wagons for their conveyance to the hinterland. The flag of the garrison at Fort Frederick is visible at the crest of the hill overlooking the scene. In the foreground, lighters laden with Settler men, women and children are battling through the waves from the notoriously unsafe anchorage. Cormorants soar above the waves, and swoop down. A breathtaking scene.

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Book number: 28800

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Baines, Thomas.

Lt. Gen Cathcart's Forces Crossing the Orange River 1852.

Limited Edition, No. 469 of 500. Heritage Fine Art 1976. Framed. Image size 370mm wide x 255mm high, framed size 600mm x 500mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). At this time Sir George Cathcart had ordered scourings of the countryside for rebels. Note Cathcart in dress uniform on a white charger at the extreme left of the painting. In February 1853, Sandile and the other chiefs surrendered. The 8th frontier war was the most bitter and brutal in the series of Xhosa wars. It lasted over two years and ended in the complete subjugation of the Ciskei Xhosa.

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Book number: 28818

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Baines, Thomas.

River Crossing 1852.

Limited Edition, No. 469 of 500. Heritage Fine Art 1976. Framed. Image size 370mm wide x 255mm high, framed size 610mm x 505mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). A full-colour reproduction of the oil on canvas by Thomas Baines (undated). The original is in the possession of The Royal Green Jackets (Rifle) Museum in Winchester, UK. This illustrates the Rifle Brigade crossing a river. It is likely that this is the Orange River and that the picture is representative of Cathcart’s forces crossing the river in his campaign against Moshoeshoe in Lesotho. One wagon has crossed the river and is on its way, another is waiting to cross, one has come to grief in the mud, and men are crossing having removed their boots and trousers to avoid getting too wet!

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Book number: 28815

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Baines, Thomas.

Seventy-Fourth Highlanders and Port Elizabeth Fingo Levy Storming the Position of the Rebel Hottentots in the Amatolas. June 16th 1851.

Unknown Framed. Image size 420mm wide x 320mm high, framed size 610mm x 500mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame, but the backing is not holding the print flat. Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). The 74th Regiment Of Foot, The Highland Light Infantry, played a major part in the 8th Frontier War. The British forces had been strengthened and by this time had forcibly moved the rebel forces west into the Amatolas.

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Book number: 28817

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Claudius, Hendrik. (Ed. Anna H. Smith).

Claudius Water-Colours in the Africana Museum. With Notes By Anna H. Smith.

Frank Connock Publication No.1. City Of Johannesburg, Africana Museum, Johannesburg 1952. Gilt title on tan phase box with matching silk ties on three sides. Overall 365mm x 245mm x 20mm. 1.0kg. Contents: 35pp 'Notes' and 24 loose colour lithograph plates on heavy paper plus one black & white plate on coated art paper. The box is sound with no mechanical defects, a little handled with damp-storage mark to rear and foxed internally. The 'Notes' is tanned and spotted externally but contents are unmarked. The coloured plates show slight tanning, but only one is affected by minor spotting on the edge. The b/w plate does show some foxing. Copy 679 of 1000 numbered copies. The water-colours are attributed to Claudius who accompanied Olaf Bergh on his 1683 expedition to find the 'Copper Mountain'. The 'Notes' gives a detailed analysis of the history surrounding the plates as well as extensive comment on each plate. Also given are an identification key of the subject matter and a listing of works mentioning Claudius.

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Book number: 28562

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Keywords: south southern africa african namaqualand copper mountain olaf bergh father guy tachard elias hesse john ovington dr andreas cleyer simon van der stel botany zoology lithographs prints

Cole, Edward.

12 Offset Litho Prints. Pin-Ups. Nos. 1-12 Inclusive.

Undated circa late 1950s. Set of 12 offset lithograph coloured prints. 180mm x 240mm. Unmarked condition. Never pinned, never taped, no folded corners. Seemingly a full set of this scarce and ephemeral series in A+ condition. These drawings are top class artistic work of the style. There are four lingerie/swimsuit items, three sport items, three children items, and two scenic items of the Cape, all numbered 1 to 12. Edward Francis Cole was a poster designer before the Great War. In the 1920s he also drew postcard art for Pictograph Publishing including the 'Kitten Series' and the 'Artistique Series' (glamour). His iconic 1930's posters for New Zealand Apples are well-known and highly collectable. He left England for South Africa after the war where he established himself as a successful commercial artist, his work including advertising brochures, book covers, and other illustrative work. These works date from this later period.

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Book number: 19096

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Keywords: ephemera lithograph prints african south african southern erotica pinup tennis mountaineering fishing poster edward francis cole

Duggan-Cronin, A.M.

The Bantu Tribes of South Africa. Volume Iv, Section 1. 1 Plate Entitled "Thonga Head-Ring Maker".

Deighton, Bell & Co / Alexander MccGregor Memorial Museum 1935. 235mm wide x 175mm high card print from Volume IV, section 1. 1 VG+ condition.

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Book number: 22988

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Keywords: photography ethnography south southern africa african vathonga thonga tsonga shangaan

Heinrich Eggersdorfer (South African Illustrated News).

A Scout, 6th Iniskilling Dragoons.

South African Illustrated News, Saturday 19th September 1885. Framed. Image size 370mm x 470mm, framed size 550mm x 650mm. Hand-coloured. Framed. Excellent condition. Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). The regiment was deployed during the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. In October 1899, the regiment returned to South Africa and was involved in many actions throughout the Anglo-Boer War. Heinrich Egersdorfer (1853-1915) founded the South African Illustrated News in Cape Town, 1884. His sketches and drawings, often in a light-hearted vein, are an invaluable record of life in the Cape Colony and were often used in local publications. The South African Illustrated News came to an end in 1885,

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Book number: 28821

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Illustrated London News.

Attack on Waggons, on Crossing a Drift in the Fish River. Print from the Supplement to Issue No. 575 Dd. August 21st 1852.

Illustrated London News. August 21st 1852. One original print, hand-coloured. Approx 260mm wide x 180mm high, framed 415mm x 340mm. Attractive copy in excellent frame. Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). The Xhosa Wars, now generally known as the Frontier Wars, were a series of nine wars between the amaXhosa people and European settlers from 1779 to 1879 in what is now the Eastern Cape in South Africa. This image is from the 8th Frontier War which was known as "Mlanjeni's War", after the prophet Mlanjeni who arose among the homeless Xhosa and who predicted that the Xhosa would be unaffected by the colonists' bullets. The 8th frontier war was the most bitter and brutal in the series of Xhosa wars. It lasted over two years and ended in the complete subjugation of the Ciskei Xhosa with the loss of most of their land and their incorporation into the Cape Colony.

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Book number: 28791

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Reid-Henry, Louise. (Artist. David Reid-Henry).

Commemorative Prints. (David Reid Henry). Introduction and Sketch Notes By Louise Reid Henry.

Frank Read Press. Mazoe 1979. Frontis portrait of artist. Full set of 6 prints, each in folder 550mm x 425mm in original blue 'solander' box 580mm x 450mm. 3.7kg. Fine condition in VG+ solander box. A most attractive item. Each print is perfect. Set No.70 of 250 only. "This folio was reproduced by a combination of photo lithography and hand lithography. Working direct from David's magnificent original paintings and pencil sketches, five of the paintings in Tempera and one in Oils: the reproduction, colour separations, plate-making and printing were carried out at Mazoe by Frank Read. All the sheets were hand fed on to the press by Dora Read. The main text is photo-set in Baskerville with the descriptive notes set in Univers". The prints illustrate the following: The Trumpeter Hornbill, The Ceylon Blue Magpie, The Fish Eagle, The Crested Barbet, The Iceland Gyrfalcon, and Epping Forest (Mallards)".

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Book number: 27250

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Keywords: art lithograph prints trumpeter hornbill ceylong blue magpie fish eagle crested barbet iceland gyrfalcon

Rhodesiana Society. (Intro. Michael Kimberley).

Silver Jubilee Portfolio of Botanical Prints.

Rhodesiana Society 1978. Gilt on ox-blood leatherette boards. oblong folio. 1.6kg. Contains folder with 6 prints 500mm x 365mm. Ends of spine split 130mm along lower half, thus binding Poor. Internal loose text introduction lightly tanned else VG condition. The six prints otherwise unmarked and eminently frameable. ISBN: 9780797403826 Copy 214 of 500. Contains four selected prints from Johannes Burman's 'Rariorum Africanarum Plantarum Decades I-X', one from Arabella Elizabeth Roupell's 'Cape Flowers By A Lady', and one by Jean Gregg that appeared in a volume of 'The Flowering Plants Of South Africa' published by the Botanical Research Institute Of South Africa (possibly 1923).

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Book number: 27601

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Unstated.

Officer of the Cape Mounted Riflemen 1842. Cape Mounted Riflemen (Imperial). Royal Standard and Regimental Guidon.

nd. Hand-coloured engraving on woven paper. Tanned else VG condition. Well framed. Sold framed (not recommended for overseas sale due to freight costs). The Imperial unit (1827-1870) was deployed in various operations and campaigns, i.e. the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Frontier Wars, the siege of Durban (1842), and the Basuto War.

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Book number: 28819

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