Thomas Baines. Bushmen hunting a herd of heterogenous game. LARGE PRINT, FRAMED.
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Print is 49 x 36 cm. Frame is 69 x 57 cm. Postnet to Postnet is R149. Or you can pick up.
A hunting scene is depicted with bushmen, quaggas, ostriches, wildebeeste and various other animals.
Bushmen would topple rocks into a valley and hunt the animals as they fled through a narrow area.
From Wikipedia":
Thomas Baines:
Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on the 27th November 1820,
In 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone along the Zambezi, and was one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls. In 1869 Baines led one of the first gold prospecting expeditions to Mashonaland in what later became Rhodesia.
From 1861 to 1862 Baines and James Chapman undertook an expedition to South West Africa. Chapman's Travels in the Interior of South Africa (1868) and Baines' Explorations in South-West Africa (1864), provide a rare account of different perspectives on the same trip. This was the first expedition during which extensive use was made of both photography and painting, and in addition both men kept journals in which, amongst other things, they commented on their own and each other's practice.
Baines made some of the drawings for the engravings illustrating Alfred Russel Wallace's 1869 book The Malay Archipelago.
In 1870 Baines was granted a concession to explore for gold between the Gweru and Hunyani rivers by Lobengula, leader of the Matabele nation. Thomas Baines died in Durban on the 8th May 1875 and is buried in West Street Cemetery.
Baines is today best known for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa and Australia. Many of his pictures are held by the National Library of Australia, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Maritime Museum, Brenthurst Library and the Royal Geographical Society. There are also numerous paintings at the Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town. The Thomas Baines Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape of South Africa was also named after him.