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Auction #125 begins on 14 Aug 2025

Prof. A. Bayer

FLOWER PAINTINGS OF KATHARINE SAUNDERS

Published: Tongaat Group Limited, Maidstone, Natal, 1979

Edition: Collector's Edition

Reserve: $200

Approximately:

Estimate: $250

Bidding opens: 14 Aug 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Aug 16:30 GMT

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This Collector's Edition has an additional 4 plates, is bound by Peter Carstens, and is limited to 250 numbered copies of which this is No. 60.

Botanical and biographical notes and explanations by Prof. A Bayer. Katharine Saunders accompanied her husband James to settle in Natal in 1854. He was involved in the setting up of the Tongaat Sugar Plantation. She was excited by the wealth of indigenous flora of Natal and produced a wonderful collection of paintings of the flowers of the area. She also despatched many specimens to friends with connections at Kew. Hence, the Kew bulletin of 1901 reports that Katharine Saunders contributed 426 specimens to the Kew museum between 1881 and 1889. One of the most striking of her paintings is the Haemanthus Katharinae, Plate 17. Pages 343, of these 106 full page colour plates of Katharine Saunders' flower paintings, other pencil drawings, family photographs and paintings of her house and surrounds. Frontispiece photograph of Katharine Saunders.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 338 x 250 x 38mm


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