The front paste-down bears the inscription “These sketches are all / by Arthur Bainbrigge”. This may be Arthur Bainbrigge of the Somersetshire Light Infantry (he became Commanding Officer of 2nd Battalion in 1875), and who would have been in South Africa in 1875.
The final 12 images in the album relate to Africa: two to Sierra Leone (one of these dated 1874), the rest to the Cape Province. The majority are views arround King Williams Town, with three very fine images of Cape Town, Table Bay and Table Mountain.
Harrison Stickle /82; Bighton [2 watercolours of cattle]; Brockhall (The Brothers); Brockhall / Sunninghill; Borrowdale; Kensington Gardens; The Curfew Tower Windsor; From the Cedars. Sunninghill / The Stehen - near Easton; [Still life]; Kensington Gardens [2 watercolours]; On the Artro - N. Wales [2 watercolours]; In Greenwich Park; Bighton Aug. 74; Breach Farm. Bighton; Easton; [Flora]; Easton [2 watercolours]; Naples; Etna / Naples; Vesuvius; Naples [2 watercolours]; Catania; Granada; [5 studies of boats & sails]; [4 studies of boats]; Windermere; Sierra Leone (1874) [125 by 172mm]; Sierra Leone [125 by 172mm]; Near King Williams Town (1874) [2 watercolours - 82 by 123mm]; The Buffalow Mountains from King William’s Town [2 watercolours - 82 by 123mm]; On the Buffalow River, near K.W. Town [125 by 176mm]; On the Buffalow River. First drift on Joeli road [125 by 175mm]; Buffalow river. Gillum’s drift. Nr. K.W. Town. [125 by 175mm]; Buffalow river, in the Pari bush. [177 by 125mm]; Camp on parade ground, Cape Town [176 by 125mm] - note particularly fine tent!; Table bay. [118 by 170mm]; From King William’s Town [105 by 190mm]; [Table Mountain?] [85 by 175mm].
