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VIEWS IN COLONIAL NATAL (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Nigel Hughes
Subtitle: A Select Catalogue Raisonne of the Southern African Paintings of Cathcart William Methven (1849-1925)
Johannesburg: Mertrade, 2005
4to (28 x 30 x 2,9cm) 144pp. Original half-leather hardcover binding, in slipcase. Marbled edges to slipcase, and marbled boards. 5 raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. All edge gilt. With fixed lint bookmark. Various fine full-colour reproductions of the paintings.
Limited edition of 150 deluxe copies, of which this is no 33. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Steve Bales. With a foreword by Antony Wiley.
Cathcart William Methven FRSE (1849-1925) was Engineer-in-Chief at Greenock on the Clyde, and appointed in 1888 as Harbour Engineer in Durban. Besides being an architect and able musician, he was, unusually, a gifted landscape artist and produced many fine paintings of Natal scenery. He founded the Durban Art Gallery in 1892. His involvement in the art world led to his being President of the Natal Society of Artists in 1908, 1912 and 1915. He drew up specifications for the building of the organs in the Durban and Pietermaritzburg Town Halls, and edited A Century of Progress in Natal, 1824–1924 published in Pietermaritzburg. Methven's first solo exhibition took place in Johannesburg in 1921. His work may be seen in the Africana Museum, Durban Art Gallery, Local History Museums, Tatham Art Gallery and the Killie Campbell Collections. He also painted a number of landscapes of his hometown, Greenock.
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