Lot Essay
There is another version of the subject by Baines in the Museum Africa, for which see R.F. Kennedy, Catalogue of Pictures in the Africana Museum, I, Johannesburg, 1966, no. B434.
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The Death Shot
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Thomas Baines (1820-1875)
The Death Shot
signed 'T. Baines/Durban/Feb./1874'(lower right) and inscribed 'The Death Shot. Buffaloes in Semokhie River Matabili Land' (along bottom edge)
oil on canvas
20¼ x 26½in. (51 x 66.5cm.)
The Death Shot
signed 'T. Baines/Durban/Feb./1874'(lower right) and inscribed 'The Death Shot. Buffaloes in Semokhie River Matabili Land' (along bottom edge)
oil on canvas
20¼ x 26½in. (51 x 66.5cm.)
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