Title

The Falls by Sunrise with the spray cloud rising 1,200 feet, pub. 1865. Creator: Thomas Baines (1820-75).

Caption

The Falls by Sunrise with the spray cloud rising 1,200 feet, from 'The Victoria Falls, Zambezi River', pub. 1865 (colour lithographgraph). T. Baines delt_T. Picken, lith. London Published Oct 4th 1865; Victoria Falls; Thomas Baines (1820-1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia; in 1858 Baines accompanied David Livingstone (1813-1873) along the Zambezi, is believed to be one of the first white men to view Victoria Falls; a large party of men can be seen both indigenous and European; Europeans are setting up a camera, sketching and frying breakfast, indigenous men are carrying cargo and food.
Historica Graphica Collection

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historica Graphica Collection

Reference

HRM19D88_240

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

53,9Mb (2,9Mb) / 17,5in x 12,0in / 5248 x 3588 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature river Africa water landscape waterfall sunrise exploration palm trees Zambia Colonial Victoria Falls Zambezi River natural wonder naturalist baobab tree anthropology topographical colonialism Historica Graphica Collection Illustration indigenous peoples Thomas Baines (1820-75) colour print the dark continent