VRS 45 Thomas Baines African Journal. Journey of a Residence in Africa 1842-1853. Volume 2

VRS 45 Thomas Baines African Journal. Journey of a Residence in Africa 1842-1853. Volume 2   

Author: Thomas Baines         

Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society  

Edition: Volume 45 1964   

ISBN: Not stated       

Language: English 

Condition: Good, Clean copy with tight binding. 

Binding: Hardcover 

Pages: 355. Print with images and detailed foldout maps          

Additional Information

Thomas Baines was an English artist and explorer.  Born in England in 1820, Baines was apprenticed to a coach painter at an early age. At the age of 22, he left England for South Africa and arrived in Cape Town in 1848 where he worked for a while as a scenic and portrait artist and later in Grahamstown as the official war artist during the Eighth Frontier War.

His diaries or journals, published here, were in his own words kept mainly for the purpose of recalling to my mind the incidents necessary to be remembered in painting from the sketches. He also made rough notes while travelling, to be written up at leisure, and then rewritten for publication in book form.

Baines was a very knowledgeable man, and very intelligent; he was also a man of imagination. He was, however, untutored. This is evident more in his writing than in his painting. His spelling was weak; his complete ignorance of syntax, combined with the absence of punctuation, often obscured his exact meaning.

Thomas Baines is best known today for his detailed paintings and sketches which give a unique insight into colonial life in southern Africa. He is considered as one of South Africas most notable artists, describing many historical events, which he meticulously recorded both with brush and with pen.

This volume covers many of his journeys in the eastern Cape, first with the expeditions of Mr W. F. Liddle and later on his own.

Baines travelled with the Liddle Expedition from Grahamstown to Shiloh, the Moravian Mission Station and further north as far as Colesberg. On his own he visited King Williams Town, East London and Kaffraria.

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