Lot Essay
Subjects are as follows:
DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873), Scottish missionary and explorer of Eastern and Central Africa; JACOB WAINRIGHT the African boy converted to Christianity by Livingstone and befriended by him; JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND (1863-1934), French explorer of Africa, who in 1888-99 set out to cross Africa from west to east; SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY(1840-1904), Journalist turned explorer who was instructed by the proprietor of the New York Herald to find Livingstone who was lost in Tanganyika in 1869; VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON (1844-1894), African explorer, leader of the Royal Geographic Society's expedition in 1873 to aid Livingstone, which learned of his death; SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (1821-1892), traveller and big game hunter who accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of Egypt and the Nile in 1869; LADY BAKER; CAPT. JOHN HANNING SPEKE (1827-1864), African explorer who discovered the source of the Nile; ARTHUR LEARED (1822-1879), traveller to India, Smyrna and the Holy Land, Iceland, Morocco and America; CAPT. JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT(1827-1892), African explorer; SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890), explorer and scholar, who travelled extensively in India & Africa; JULES GERARD (1817-1864), lion hunter; WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON (1821-1879), traveller and historian; CAPTAIN SIR GEORGE S. NARES (1831-1915), Commander of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76; SIR FRANCIS LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK (1819-1907),explorer; SIR JOHN GARDNER WILKINSON (1797-1875), explorer and Egyptologist; FREIDRICH HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) traveller and naturalist and SIR JOHN FRANK (1786-1847) Arctic explorer (the last two copied from paintings).
DR. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873), Scottish missionary and explorer of Eastern and Central Africa; JACOB WAINRIGHT the African boy converted to Christianity by Livingstone and befriended by him; JEAN BAPTISTE MARCHAND (1863-1934), French explorer of Africa, who in 1888-99 set out to cross Africa from west to east; SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY(1840-1904), Journalist turned explorer who was instructed by the proprietor of the New York Herald to find Livingstone who was lost in Tanganyika in 1869; VERNEY LOVETT CAMERON (1844-1894), African explorer, leader of the Royal Geographic Society's expedition in 1873 to aid Livingstone, which learned of his death; SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (1821-1892), traveller and big game hunter who accompanied the Prince of Wales on a tour of Egypt and the Nile in 1869; LADY BAKER; CAPT. JOHN HANNING SPEKE (1827-1864), African explorer who discovered the source of the Nile; ARTHUR LEARED (1822-1879), traveller to India, Smyrna and the Holy Land, Iceland, Morocco and America; CAPT. JAMES AUGUSTUS GRANT(1827-1892), African explorer; SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON (1821-1890), explorer and scholar, who travelled extensively in India & Africa; JULES GERARD (1817-1864), lion hunter; WILLIAM HEPWORTH DIXON (1821-1879), traveller and historian; CAPTAIN SIR GEORGE S. NARES (1831-1915), Commander of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-76; SIR FRANCIS LEOPOLD MCCLINTOCK (1819-1907),explorer; SIR JOHN GARDNER WILKINSON (1797-1875), explorer and Egyptologist; FREIDRICH HUMBOLDT (1769-1859) traveller and naturalist and SIR JOHN FRANK (1786-1847) Arctic explorer (the last two copied from paintings).