THE SCHROEDER ART MEMENTO

Original blue decorated cloth with gilt front board with viii plus twelve letters, plus 56 pp memoirs plus 190 monochrome cartoons, unpaginated. Title. Half title. In Memoriam. List of Patrons. Portrait. Preface. Portrait. Ten Letters.
The back board has a few marks. Internally very clean and bright. Minimal wear to spine ends.

William Howard Schröder (c. 1851 Cape Town - 1892 Pretoria), was a South African artist, cartoonist and publisher. At the age of 14, Schröder was compelled by his family's straitened circumstances to leave school and work for a photo colourist, becoming proficient at this art. Later he was employed by a photographer, S. B. Barnard, for some twelve years during which period he attended evening classes in art, first studying under Thomas Lindsay of the Roeland Street School of Art, and later under Lindsay's successor, W. McGill. Schröder started regularly contributing cartoons and caricatures to newspapers and periodicals.

His cartoons were used by the Cape Argus, Het Volksblad, The Lantern, Excalibur and his own weekly The Knobkerrie. He moved to the Transvaal in 1889 where after working on several journals, he joined The Press in Pretoria.

Source: Wikipedia

This interesting volume owes its existence to the exertions of a number of admirers of the deceased artist's work, the committee formed to carry out the publication consisting mostly of the prominent public men in South Africa at the close of the nineteenth century. Schroeder was probably the best caricaturist that the sub-continent had possessed up to this period, and his work is characterised by the fidelity of most of his portraits, and the humour exhibited in his cartoons. A fine study of Kruger is one of the gems of the collection. which includes portraits of most of the celebrities of South Africa circa 1869-1892.

Among the interesting items of the publication are the facsimiles of letters from President Kruger, Sir Henry (afterwards Lord) Loch, President Reitz, C.J. Rhodes, Dr Leyds and many others referring to the issue of the momento. A memoir of Mr Schroeder was contributed by Mr.Charles Cowen, and there are two portraits of the author.

Mendelssohn. Volume 2. Pages 287-8.