Thomas Baines
| Thomas Baines | |||||
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| Born | 1820 | ||||
| Died | 1875 | ||||
| Residence |
15 Whitehall Place, SW [1865] 21 Northumberland St. [1866] | ||||
| Occupation |
explorer artist | ||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
A5 25 T. Baines, 15 Whitehall Place, SW to CCB, 24 Oct. 1865 – submits his charge for diagrams sent; see his ‘On certain implements and articles of dress from South Africa’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cii-cviii
26 Ibid., 21 Northumberland Street, 30 Jan. 1866 – on stamp duty
27 Ibid., 6 Feb. – on his specimens and sketches made during his African travels
28 Ibid., 16 Aug. – on Frederick Green’s journey from Damaraland to the Cunēnē river and his indebtedness to Chikongo, an Ovampo Chief, for guides
Presidential Address 1867: A plan brought before the Council only this year for making a collection of authentic portraits of some of the most available African tribes. Mr Baines, the accomplished traveller and artist, submitted for our consideration a plan by which he would undertake such a duty, but we found that this alone, in the expenses to be incurred by that gentleman, would absorb more than a year’s entire income; we were therefore compelled to relinquish the idea of obtaining the portraits of African races in this manner
Notes From Elsewhere
(John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 – 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia.
Publications
External Publications
Prospectus of his work on Kaffirland laid on the table 12 Aug 1852
Thomas Baines, Explorations in South-West Africa: being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864). Thomas Baines, The gold regions of south eastern Africa (London: Edward Stanford, 1877). J.P.R. Wallis (ed.), The northern goldfields diaries of Thomas Baines (London: Chatto & Windus, 1946). Fay Jaff, They came to South Africa (Cape Town: Timmins, 1963). J.P.R. Wallis, Thomas Baines, his life and explorations in South Africa, Rhodesia and Australia, 1820–1875 (Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1976). Russell Braddon, Thomas Baines and the North Australian Expedition (Sydney: Collins in association with the Royal Geographical Society, 1986). Jane Carruthers and Marion Arnold, The life and work of Thomas Baines (Vlaeberg, South Africa: Fernwood Press, 1995). Historic Houses Trust, Cape Town, halfway to Sydney 1788–1870: treasures from The Brenthurst Library Johannesburg (Sydney: Historic Houses Trust, 2005). William Barry Lord lavishly illustrated by Thomas Baines Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration (1876) "Thomas Baines of King's Lynn, Artist and Traveller". by Henry J. Hillen. serialised in "The King's Lynn News and Norfolk County Press" published between 12 March and 10 September 1898. Transcribed copies are in the King's Lynn Library, and Museum.
House Publications
Remarks on the various races of the Cape Colony and adjacent districts of South Africa – by Mr Baines, communicated by Dr Norton Shaw 6 feb. 1866
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
Baines' works in the National Library of Australia, Canberra Baines' works in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
