Description: An historic 8-page Special Supplement to "The Graphic" magazine of London dated April 25, 1874 and entitled as follows: "The Life and Labours of David Livingstone by H.M.Stanley, Author of "How I Found Stanley etc." Livingstone had just been buried in Westminster Abbey a week earlier although he had died a year previously - see below Good condition - see scans with 8 sides of text These are original antique engravings and not reproductions. Great collectors item for the historian David LivingstoneFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to navigationJump to searchFor other people named David Livingstone, see David Livingstone (disambiguation).David LivingstoneLivingstone in 1864Born19 March 1813 Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, United KingdomDied1 May 1873 (aged 60)[1] Chief Chitambo's Village, Kingdom of Kazembe (today Northern Province, Zambia)Resting placeWestminster Abbey 51.499444°N 0.1275°WKnown forProselytizing Christianity, exploration of Africa, and meeting with Henry Stanley.Spouse(s)Mary Moffat(m. 1845; died 1862)Children6David Livingstone (/ˈlɪvɪŋstən/; 19 March 1813 – 1 May 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary[2] with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era. David was the husband of Mary Moffat Livingstone, from the prominent 18th Century missionary family, Moffat.[3] He had a mythic status that operated on a number of interconnected levels: Protestant missionary martyr, working-class "rags-to-riches" inspirational story, scientific investigator and explorer, imperial reformer, anti-slavery crusader, and advocate of British commercial and colonial expansion.Livingstone's fame as an explorer and his obsession with learning the sources of the Nile River was founded on the belief that if he could solve that age-old mystery, his fame would give him the influence to end the East African Arab–Swahili slave trade. "The Nile sources", he told a friend, "are valuable only as a means of opening my mouth with power among men. It is this power [with] which I hope to remedy an immense evil."[4] His subsequent exploration of the central African watershed was the culmination of the classic period of European geographical discovery and colonial penetration of Africa. At the same time, his missionary travels, "disappearance", and eventual death in Africa—and subsequent glorification as a posthumous national hero in 1874—led to the founding of several major central African Christian missionary initiatives carried forward in the era of the European "Scramble for Africa".[5]
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Type: antique engraving
Year of Production: 1874
Theme: History
Production Technique: Wood Engraving
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Africa
Print Type: Engraving