LIMITED EDITION NO 30 OF ONLY 500 PORTFOLIO REPRODUCTION OF 10 RHODESIAN LANDSCAPE WATERCOLOURS BY ALICE BALFOUR (1850-1936)

THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION NO 30 OF 500 PORTFOLIO OF LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTS OF RHODESIAN WATERCOLOUR LANDSCAPES DONE BY THE ENGLISH NATURALIST ALICE BALBOUR IN 1894. THE ORIGINALS IS HOPEFULLY STILL IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES F ZIMBABWE.

THERE ARE 10 PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC REPRODUCTIONS IN COLOUR TAKING YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH OLD RHODESIA.

WITH 8-PAGE INSERT WITH TITLE PAGE, INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIVE NOTES, IN QUARTER BOUND LINEN HARD PORTFOLIO COVER WITH CARD FLAPS.

PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES, SALISBURY (HARARE), 1980, NUMBER 30 OF 500.

ALICE BALFOUR (1850-1936):
Born in 1850 she was the daughter of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame and his wife, Lady Blanche Cecil, and a sister of Arthur James Balfour, who became Prime Minister of Britain.
In 1894 she toured South Africa and Rhodesia in company with A. H. G. Grey and his wife and H. Fitzwilliam. The party arrived at Cape Town in April, 1894 and, after visiting Basutoland, Johannesburg and Kimberley, made a tour of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, travelling by ox-wagon from the railhead north of Mafeking to Bulawayo and from there through Fort Victoria, Salisbury and Umtali to Beira. Here Miss Balfour and Fitzwilliam parted company with the Greys, and made their return journey to England up the east coast of Africa.
In 1895 she published an account of her journey, entitled Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon (Edward Arnold).
Miss Balfour was a keen amateur artist. During her tour of Southern Africa she made numerous sketches and water-colours. Her water-colour drawings of animals and landscapes, had great delicacy and accuracy.
 
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