Victoria Falls

Best, Mary Ellen, 1809-1891

dc.contributor.author	Best, Mary Ellen, 1809-1891
dc.coverage.spatial	Europe	en
dc.coverage.spatial	England	en
dc.coverage.spatial	York	en
dc.coverage.temporal	19th century	en
dc.coverage.temporal	1809–1891
dc.date.accessioned	2012-09-20T08:07:51Z
dc.date.available	2012-09-20T08:07:51Z
dc.date.created	1880
dc.date.issued	2012-09-20
dc.description	Mary Ellen Best was born in York in England and traveled extensively through Europe. David Livingstone was the first European to see the Mosi-oa-Tunya in 1855 which he renamed to the Victoria waterfalls. The first major work with drawings and photographs on the falls was published on the falls in 1880, inspiring Best to paint the waterfalls as she herself never visited Africa. According to art historians Best stopped painting in 1852 but as the Victoria Falls was only discovered in 1855, it can be assumed that the painting was painted while Best was living in Darmstadt, Germany. She passed away in 1891	en
dc.description.librarian	ab2012	en
dc.format.extent	345mm x 505 mm	en
dc.format.medium	Watercolour painting	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/19864
dc.relation.ispartofseries	208306	en
dc.rights	Copyright electronic version: University of Pretoria	en
dc.subject	British artists	en
dc.subject	Victorian artists	en
dc.subject	Mary Ellen Best (1809–1891)	en
dc.subject	Female artists	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Watercolor painting	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Painting, British	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Landscape painting -- 19th century	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Victoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)	en
dc.title	Victoria Falls	en
dc.type	Still Image	en