Ethel May Dixie (9 May 1876 Seapoint, Cape Town - 11 October 1973 Rondebosch, Cape Town) was a South African botanical artist. Events 1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Cape Town (Kaapstad Xhosa: Ikapa) is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Year 1973 ( MCMLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. Rondebosch is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa
Ethel Dixie was largely self-taught unlike her older sister who enjoyed the benefits of tuition by Thomas Bowler. Nonetheless, she was the principal artist for Rudolf Marloth's The Flora of South Africa. Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth December 28 1855 Lübben, Germany - May 15 1931 Caledon, Cape Province was a German-born South Many of the original plates for this work, were destroyed by a fire at the publisher. She was also a lecturer at the Cape Town School of Art. Her work can be found at the Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg, the Carnegie Library archives at the University of Stellenbosch, MuseumAfrica in Johannesburg, National Botanical Institutes in Cape Town and Pretoria, the South African embassies in London, Rome and New York and in numerous private collections. Johannesburg ( Pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/ is the largest city in South Africa. For other uses see Carnegie Library (disambiguation, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Free Library and Carnegie Public Library Stellenbosch University ( Afrikaans: Universiteit Stellenbosch) is an internationally recognised University which is situated in the town of Stellenbosch
Publications
- The Flora of South Africa- with Rudolf Marloth 6 vols. Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth December 28 1855 Lübben, Germany - May 15 1931 Caledon, Cape Province was a German-born South (Capetown, Darter Bros. & Co. ; London, W. Wesley & Son, 1913-1932)
- Wild Flowers of the Cape of Good Hope - with RH Compton (Janda Press, Cape Town 1953)
- Two portfolios of prints published privately in 1990s.
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