OWLOGRAPHS

A collection of South African celebrities in caricature

First edition: 64 pages, chiefly full page black and white illustrations, pictorial card wrappers – paperback, very worn on the spine, a good copy.

Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier (11 November 1865 – 20 March 1950), more commonly known as D.C. Boonzaier, was a South African cartoonist. He was famous for his caricatures of Cape politicians and celebrities at the turn of the century, and later for his anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist cartoons for Die Burger. He fathered the artist Gregoire Boonzaier.

His collection, Owlographs, published in 1901, was dedicated to the members and visitors of the celebrated Owl Club, a society co-founded by Boonzaier in 1894 and "whose particular purpose was to entertain important visitors to the Cape". The collection is of great historical interest, as it depicts virtually all the main political actors of the time: Lord Milner, Cecil Rhodes, Gordon Sprigg, John X. Merriman, J. W. Sauer and W. P. Schreiner; Sirs John Henry de Villiers, Henry Juta and James Rose Innes; and Boer leaders like Paul Kruger, Marthinus Steyn, Louis Botha, Christiaan de Wet and F. W. Reitz. In 1903 Boonzaier was hired by The South Africa News, becoming South Africa's first full-time newspaper cartoonist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Boonzaier