David Livingstone (1813-1873)] Five cloth panels, comprising a map and four scenes, illustrating David Livingstone's first African journey, printed in black with colours by the Religious Tract Society (one stamped: Working Men's Educational Union) and numbered 345/6-349 and 357, ca. 1857-58. 1780 x 1190mm (map); 1200 x 900mm (scenes). (A few very light stains.) The scenes represented here are taken directly from the wood-engravings made for Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa , published in London by John Murray in 1857; the map of South Africa showing the routes of the Reverend Dr. Livingstone also accompanied that edition. An admittedly poor draughtsman, Livingstone collaborated with a commercial book illustrator to produce a number of the wood-engravings specifically for his work. The scenes offered here are: Map of South Africa, The Victoria Falls, The Travelling Procession Interrupted, The Missionary's Escape from the Lion, and The Pit at the Extremity of the Hopo. The illustrations came to encapsulate the Victorian image of Africa and exotic adventure. They also served to illustrate missionary pursuits in Africa, and were reproduced as lantern slides and, as here, banners to be hung at educational or religious meetings. (5)
David Livingstone (1813-1873)] Five cloth panels, comprising a map and four scenes, illustrating David Livingstone's first African journey, printed in black with colours by the Religious Tract Society (one stamped: Working Men's Educational Union) and numbered 345/6-349 and 357, ca. 1857-58. 1780 x 1190mm (map); 1200 x 900mm (scenes). (A few very light stains.) The scenes represented here are taken directly from the wood-engravings made for Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa , published in London by John Murray in 1857; the map of South Africa showing the routes of the Reverend Dr. Livingstone also accompanied that edition. An admittedly poor draughtsman, Livingstone collaborated with a commercial book illustrator to produce a number of the wood-engravings specifically for his work. The scenes offered here are: Map of South Africa, The Victoria Falls, The Travelling Procession Interrupted, The Missionary's Escape from the Lion, and The Pit at the Extremity of the Hopo. The illustrations came to encapsulate the Victorian image of Africa and exotic adventure. They also served to illustrate missionary pursuits in Africa, and were reproduced as lantern slides and, as here, banners to be hung at educational or religious meetings. (5)
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