Die Volschenks: Drie geslagte kunsskilders (Afrikaans Edition) by Steyn, Helene
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Die Volschenks: Drie geslagte kunsskilders (Afrikaans Edition) by Steyn, Helene
Publisher: Stilbaai-Bewaringstrust, 1992
Language: Afrikaans
ISBN 0620163992
The mottled matt straw-coloured dustjacket, printed in brown on all three faces, includes cameos of the three Volschenk generations - J E A (Jan) (1853-1936), his daughter Vera (1899-1987), who was the eldest of nine girls, and Vera's daughter, Helene Volschenk-Gerrand, who was born in 1924 and died in a car accident just six days after her mother's funeral.
The jacket is unchipped and clean. The lime cloth-boards is clean and without any marks. The binding is tight. The plain white endpapers are unmarked and bright, as are the xvi + 118 pp of text, printed on coated stock and profusely illustrated in b/w, with a 16 pp colour section at the centre.
This is a near-fine copy of this scholarly but warm appreciation of the work and lives of the Volschenk family, of which Jan, the senior member, is described in the postscript by G Muller Ballot as the father of South African landscape painting.
In her foreword, the well-known writer Dalene Matthee sets the family scene in Riversdale and Stilbaai.
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
