Rock-paintings in South Africa: from parts of the Eastern Province and Orange Free State. Plate 21

Rock-paintings in South Africa: from parts of the Eastern Province and Orange Free State. Plate 21

Publications and reports

Ink on paper

c. 1930

Interior pages of a printed A5 promotional flyer on lustre paper with a halftone 'specimen image' and 'specimen description' taken from George Stow's 'Rock-painting in South Africa...' (1930).

Interior pages of Methuen & Co. Ltd.'s flyer promoting George William Stow's posthumous 'Rock-painting in South Africa...' (1930). The interior spread is a preview from the final publication. The book showcases Stow's rock art copies from sites in the Eastern Province and Orange Free State with an introduction and descriptive notes by Dorothea Bleek. The publication, limited to 500 copies, includes 72 plates (reproduced from coloured collotype plates [6' x 9¼']) and a map. The flyer's halftone 'specimen illustration' is Stow's controversial 'blue ostriches'.