Rough Rough Draft of a Scheme for Visiting Engraving & Painting Sites
Item date(s): (1939)
Walter Whall Battiss
(1906-1982) - (sketchbook by)
Pages: 58pp Size: 305mm Collation: 58pp (59pp) [31pp used and the final two pages unnumbered]. p22 (blank) partially torn out. Binding: Hand-made sketchbook by Battiss using blue paper wrap-around with punched string ties. Language: English Inscription: Signed on the front cover by the artist: W. W. Battiss
Sub-type: Sketchbook
Place publication: (Pretoria RSA) Publisher: The artist
Additional notes: Frontispiece (with amusing ideas for an exhibition) and images (including three hares) photocopied with essay on Modern Art (two pages).
Original sketchbook donated to the The Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at Wits University, 2022, where it may be seen in its entirety.
Several maps showing the documented locations, are included.
Pink paper throughout. Originally the endpapers were stapled to the covers.
The date is taken from an annotation on page 12 (this page number is repeated).