Map of Africa
c.1738 London.
By Edward Wells (1667-1727)

Hand coloured copperplate engraving from “A New Sett of Maps both Antient and Present Geography” (sic). This highly decorative map was considered very accurate in its time.

67.5cm x 79cm framed
R12,000

Male & Female Nude
Abstract watercolours by Simon Stone (1952-)

South African artist Stone is renowned for his various stylistic approaches, such as natural realism and symbolic collage. He juxtaposes different genres in paintings constructed around multiple images that provide vivid and poetic accounts of his journey.

29cm x 37.5 cm (male) 29.5cm x 36.5cm (female)

R8,000 each

Peace Symbol
By Durant Sihlali (1935-2004)
Signed and numbered etching c.1975
Durant Sihlali was a South African artist, who was born in Germiston. He was Head of Fine Arts at the Federated Union of Black Artists from 1983 until 2004 and exhibited in Nuremberg, Athens and Palermo.
43cm x 55cm excluding mountboard
R4,500

The Scorpion Flotilla, Durban
c. 1980

Pencil drawing by Tom Hamilton
Hamilton was an official naval artist at the time.

53cm x 74cm framed
R3,500

Japanese Woodblock print – Samurai
c1850
By Utagawa Kunisada (1786-1865)
Woodblock printing in Japan is a technique best known for its use in the ukiyo-e, which refers to the paintings and prints which glorified the floating (carefree) world. They showed subjects from the world of entertainment, beautiful women, actors in popular roles, and also myths, legends and historical events. Widely adopted in Japan during the Edo period (1603-1868) (cropped, minor tears)

25cm x 47cm
R3,000
*This is one of many different Japanese woodblock prints.

Von Lettow-Vorbeck postcard
Dated 1938

By Major General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of Imperial German troops in the First World War, East Africa.
Signed.

11cm x 15.5cm
R2,500

Impala Does
Signed pen & ink by Zakkie Eloff (1925-2004)
c.2000

Zakkie Eloff studied art at Pretoria Boys’ High School under Walter Battiss.

19cm x 29cm excluding mountboard
R1,500

Democratic Glory / Democratic Consolation – Napoleon Caricature
Hand coloured copperplate engraving 1852.

'The Life of Buonaparte' A caricature by James Gillray, published by John Miller, Bridge Street and W.Blackwood, Edinburgh. The first shows Buonaparte, as Grand Consul of France, receiving the adulations of Jacobin Sycophants & Parasites', in the second on his Couch, surrounded by the Ghosts of the Murder'd, - the Dangers which threaten his Usurpation, and all the Horrors of Final Retribution.'

23.5 cm x 33cm
R1,000

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