David Livingstone Statue

Category

Library Item

Item no

26815

Title

David Livingstone Statue, East Princes Street Gardens

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2012

Type

Digital image

The statue of David Livingstone is by Amelia Paton Hill, (1820 - 1904) one of the few women sculptors in 19th century Edinburgh. She was a gifted artist, but has been overshadowed by her more famous artist brothers, Sir Noel Paton and Hugh Waller Paton, and her husband - pioneering photographer David Octavius Hill. The statue shows him holding a Bible, wearing a cloak and haversack, with a pistol and compass at his waist.

David Livingstone was born in 1813 in Blantyre, Lanarkshire. In 1840, he was ordained as a missionary and sent to South Africa, where he discovered the Victoria Falls. He died in 1873 while searching for the source of the Nile, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

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