Thomas painted this small sketch (it measures 112 x 75mm) and others on one of his trips to what is now South Africa (but not on the 1871-2 one: it is possibly from an earlier trip). Names I can ...

The two young riders have even the steeliest of eagle-eyed observers reminiscing of the days of Basil Marcus and Douglas Whyte – South African riders who took their country by storm before ...