SUPER RARE LARGE HISTORIC SOUTH AFRICAN WAR BATTLE IN SOUTH AFRICA

Klein (Harry); Strydom (C.J. Scheepers). (BOER WAR RELATED) Historic Tableaux on Tiles / Historiese Tablo’s op Teëls. Pretoria: South African Airways, Circa 1973. First Edition. Parallel text in Afrikaans and English. "These tableaux were discovered under the wall paper of an old theatre in Rotterdam in the late 1960’s. The tableaux comprising 2000 painted tiles were removed from the walls and carefully checked, restored, varnished and shipped to South Africa where they were  exhibited at the T.P.A. Building in Pretoria. The Theatre in Rotterdam called The Transvalia was built at the end of 1899 at a time of considerable European interest and sympathy for the Boer cause. The first owner of the theatre hit upon the idea of decorating the foyer with tiles on which the heroic deeds of the Boers would be artistically immortalised. The artist Cornelius de Bruin was commissioned to paint the tableaux.". 26pp., fullpage colour ills. Oversized at 350x490mm Tall.