~ 1 ~ RHODESIA THROUGH ARTISTS’ EYES Issued 20 th July, 1977 This issue is described as “Artists of Rhodesia” by the Rhodesia Stamp Catalogue. This is an incorrect description, this is not what the Post Office called the issue. Thomas Baines (24 cents) died before the occupation of the country. It is unlikely that Alice Balfour (8c, 8c & 16c) would have described herself as “Rhodesian”. Joan Evans is more contemporary and can be considered as Rhodesian. (Source: PTC Bulletin No 2 or 1977) EVANS, Mrs. Joan Lois (1905- 1986) 3 cents: Lake Kyle scene, 4 cents: Chimanimani Mountains from Pork Pie Hill, Melsetter. Typical style of Joan Evans Born in Pretoria, South Africa, of English parents, Joan Evans has lived in Rhodesia for sixty- four years and is now regarded as Rhodesia's foremost landscape artist. She attributes her talent to her father, Colonel A. Essex Capell, a painter in his own right. During her early childhood she travelled quite extensively as her father, being in Government service, was posted to Kenya and then to Grenada in the West Indies. In 1913, he was transferred to Rhodesia as Assistant Commissioner of the British South Africa Police and the family settled in Salisbury. Always keen on drawing "since I was able to hold a pencil." Joan matriculated in Art at the Girls High School, Salisbury, but apart from school she had no formal art tuition. A versatile artist, Joan Evans has no media preference and can work equally well in oils, water colours, pastels or pen and wash. Nor does she confine herself to landscapes - flowers, seascapes and "moderns" are other favourite subjects which give her great pleasure
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RHODESIA THROUGH ARTISTS’ EYES
Issued 20th July, 1977
This issue is described as “Artists of Rhodesia” by the Rhodesia Stamp Catalogue. This is an
incorrect description, this is not what the Post Office called the issue. Thomas Baines (24 cents)
died before the occupation of the country. It is unlikely that Alice Balfour (8c, 8c & 16c) would
have described herself as “Rhodesian”. Joan Evans is more contemporary and can be considered
as Rhodesian.
(Source: PTC Bulletin No 2 or 1977)
EVANS, Mrs. Joan Lois (1905- 1986)
3 cents: Lake Kyle scene,
4 cents: Chimanimani Mountains from Pork Pie Hill, Melsetter.
Typical style of Joan Evans
Born in Pretoria, South Africa, of English parents, Joan Evans has lived in Rhodesia for sixty-
four years and is now regarded as Rhodesia's foremost landscape artist. She attributes her talent
to her father, Colonel A. Essex Capell, a painter in his own right. During her early childhood
she travelled quite extensively as her father, being in Government service, was posted to Kenya
and then to Grenada in the West Indies. In 1913, he was transferred to Rhodesia as Assistant
Commissioner of the British South Africa Police and the family settled in Salisbury. Always
keen on drawing "since I was able to hold a pencil."
Joan matriculated in Art at the Girls High School, Salisbury, but apart from school she had no
formal art tuition. A versatile artist, Joan Evans has no media preference and can work equally
well in oils, water colours, pastels or pen and wash. Nor does she confine herself to landscapes
- flowers, seascapes and "moderns" are other favourite subjects which give her great pleasure
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to paint. Fifteen of her paintings hang in the Rhodesia Parliament and another three in
Government House while two have been purchased by the National Art Gallery in Salisbury.
She has held many "one-man" Exhibitions in Rhodesia and elsewhere and receives commissions
from many parts of the World.
Married to Walter Evans in 1930, they have three children—two sons and a daughter — and
eight grandchildren.
BALFOUR, Alice Blanche (1850-1936)
6 cents: Rocks near Bonsor Reef.
8 cents: A "dwala" near Devil's Pass.
16 cents: At Zimbabwe.
In camp near Fort Victoria
Mashonas near Kopje
Daughter of James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame and his wife, Lady Blanche Cecil,
daughter of the 2nd Marquis of Salisbury, and a sister of Arthur James Balfour, who became
Prime Minister of Britain and later the 1st Earl of Balfour. In 1894 she toured South Africa and
Rhodesia in company with A. H. G. Grey and his wife (afterwards the 4th Earl and Countess
Grey) and H. Fitzwilliam.
The party arrived at Cape Town in April, 1894 and, after visiting Basutoland, Johannesburg and
Kimberley, made a tour of Matabeleland and Mashonaland, travelling by ox-wagon from the
railhead north of Mafeking to Bulawayo and from there through Fort Victoria, Salisbury and
Umtali to Beira. Here Miss Balfour and Fitzwilliam parted company with the Greys, and made
their return journey to England up the east coast of Africa.
In 1895 she published an account of her journey, entitled Twelve Hundred Miles in a Waggon
(Edward Arnold). Miss Balfour was a keen amateur artist. During her tour of Southern Africa
she made numerous sketches and water-colours.
Her obituary notice in the Times of 13 June, 1936, states that "she was so acutely conscious of
the gulf which divides the professional from the amateur, that she took little pleasure in her
water-colour drawings of animals and landscapes, which nevertheless had great delicacy and
accuracy".
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BAINES, John Thomas (1820-1875)
24 cents: Bird's Eye View of the Victoria Falls.
Baines and Chapman on the Zambezi above the Victoria Falls
Born at Kings' Lynn, Norfolk, on the 27th November, 1820, He Was educated at home and then
apprenticed to a coach-builder to learn the art of heraldic painting on carriage panels, but an
innate love of art soon led him to devote much of his leisure time to landscapes and other works.
In 1842 he left England for South Africa, he worked in Cape Town as a painter and artist and
in 1846 he began to travel to other regions of the Cape Colony. By 1853 he had made his name
as an artist and explorer.
Returning to England in 1834, Baines was appointed artist to the North-West Australian
Expedition under Augustus Gregory and so distinguished himself, that on his return he was
given the freedom of the Borough of Kings' Lynn. He returned to South Africa in 1860 and in
1862 he journeyed with his friend, Thomas Chapman, from the South-West Africa coast to the
Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River.
He spent several weeks at the Victoria Falls, making drawings and measurements and
subsequently published a folio volume of coloured lithographs of the Falls. Baines spent the
years 1864-68 in England, lecturing, Writing and drawing illustrations for various periodicals.
Towards the end of 1868 he returned to Africa under agreement with company to prospect for
gold in Mashonaland. Becoming friendly with Lobengula, supreme chief of the Matabele
Nation, he was granted the first mineral concession but unfortunately, he was never to exploit
it. He died of dysentery in Durban on the 8th May, 1875, leaving behind a wealth of pictures
and diaries.
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THE ISSUED STAMPS
Catalogue listings
SG RSC2 Value Description
543 C167 3c Lake Kyle scene – Joan Evans
a. “Red mark on hill under tree” (Cyl 1B 5/5)
544 C168 4c Chimanimani Mountains – Joan Evans
545 C169 6c Rocks near Bonsor Reef – Alice Balfour
a. “Blue stone on rock” (Cyl 1A R8/3)
546 C170 8c A ‘Dwala’ near Devil’s Pass – Alice Balfour
a. “Red mark on hill” (Cyl 1A R4/1)
b. “Black ‘tyre’ at side of road” (Cyl 1A R10/5)
547 C171 16c At Zimbabwe – Alice Balfour
548 C172 24c Victoria Falls – Thomas Baines
a. “Red dot on ‘4’ of 24” (Cyl 1B R5/3)
Technical details
Stamp size: 42 x 28 mm
Sheet Size: 50 stamps (10 rows of 5 stamps), two panes within printed sheet
Artist: Joan Evans, Alice Balfour & Thomas Baines
Paper: Type 13– white fluorescent paper, gum with greenish tinge, slightly
sheen
Print colours: All values – cyan, yellow, magenta & black
Perforations: Comb perf: SG 14, RSC 14¼
Top margin: Perforated through
Side and bottom margins: Imperforate
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Printer’s Imprint: Type 6a, bottom margin, below columns 2 to 4 – black printing
Cylinder numbers: Cyls. 1A & 1B bottom margin under R10/1, colours reading across
from left - cyan, yellow, magenta, black (all values)
Colour register: Type TL 4 – round boxed - left margin opposite R10/1, colours
reading down - cyan, yellow, magenta, black (all values)
Sheet Value: Bottom margin, below R10/5, black printing
Sheet Number: Type SN 4 with ‘PTC’ prefix, right margin opposite R10/5, reading