Thomas Baines (1820-1875)

The Swakop river at Anna Wood - below Mr. Runcie's house

细节
Thomas Baines (1820-1875)
The Swakop river at Anna Wood - below Mr. Runcie's house
signed, inscribed as title and dated 'T Baines/June 1861' (lower left and lower right)
watercolour, unframed
10 x 14in. (25.4 x 35.6cm.)
来源
Charles John Andersson (1827-1867) and by descent to the present owner.

拍品专文

'On the 22nd June, Mr. Hoachanas arrived with Mr. Runcie's wagon from the Bay, and persuaded me to go out to Runcie's place at Anna Wood, about twenty-five miles to the north-west, where we arrived about eleven; the same night crossing the Swa-Kop six or eight times, and halting before the house under the most magnificent anna-trees (a kind of thorn) I had seen in the country. The river, all the way from Otjimbingue, presented a broad, level, sandy bed, with banks from three to five or six feet high on each side, and hills more or less distant.' (T. Baines, Explorations in South-West Africa, London, 1864, p.42)