Victoria Falls

dc.contributor.authorBest, Mary Ellen, 1809-1891
dc.coverage.spatialEuropeen
dc.coverage.spatialEnglanden
dc.coverage.spatialYorken
dc.coverage.temporal19th centuryen
dc.coverage.temporal1809–1891
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-20T08:07:51Z
dc.date.available2012-09-20T08:07:51Z
dc.date.created1880
dc.date.issued2012-09-20
dc.descriptionMary 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 1891en
dc.description.librarianab2012en
dc.format.extent345mm x 505 mmen
dc.format.mediumWatercolour paintingen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/19864
dc.relation.ispartofseries208306en
dc.rightsCopyright electronic version: University of Pretoriaen
dc.subjectBritish artistsen
dc.subjectVictorian artistsen
dc.subjectMary Ellen Best (1809–1891)en
dc.subjectFemale artistsen
dc.subject.lcshWatercolor paintingen
dc.subject.lcshPainting, Britishen
dc.subject.lcshLandscape painting -- 19th centuryen
dc.subject.lcshVictoria Falls (Zambia and Zimbabwe)en
dc.titleVictoria Fallsen
dc.typeStill Imageen

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