?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WYNDHAM ROBINSON (1883-1959)
ZIMBABWE / RHODESIA'S CLIMATE CALLS. 1928.
40x25 1/4 inches, 101 1/2x64 cm. Hortors Limited, Cape Town. Condition A-: repaired tears at edges, some slightly into image. Framed.
In 1895, the territory of South Zambezia (currently, Zimbabwe) was renamed Rhodesia after Cecil Rhodes, the British colonial whose South Africa Company governed the area from 1889. Depicted is the conical tower within the "Great Enclosure," a wall that runs around the ancient African ruins of "Great Zimbabwe," a city constructed from the 11th to 15th century. The site is noted not only for being the largest ancient structure south of the Sahara Desert, but also for the skill by which all of the granite rocks were placed together without the use of mortar. Robinson was a London-born cartoonist who moved to Rhodesia to become a farmer after the First World War. This poster also exists with the text: "Rhodesia's Ancient Past Intrigues The World."
