Ethel May Dixie was a South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n botanical artist.

Ethel Dixie was largely self-taught unlike her older sister who enjoyed the benefits of tuition by Thomas Bowler

Thomas William Bowler

Thomas William Bowler , the son of William Bowler and his wife Sarah Butterfield, a self-taught landscape painter, lived for some years at the Cape of Good Hope, and published a series of views of Cape Town and its neighbourhood...

. Nonetheless, she was the principal artist for Rudolf Marloth

Rudolf Marloth

Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth 28 December 1855 Lübben, Germany - 15 May 1931 Caledon, Cape Province was a German-born South African botanist, pharmacist and analytical chemist, best known for his Flora of South Africa which appeared in six superbly illustrated volumes between 1913 and 1932...

's The Flora of South Africa. 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

Brenthurst Library

The Brenthurst Library is a private repository of Africana in Johannesburg built by Harry Oppenheimer in 1984 as he started to disengage from the family's mining interests. It houses a collection of some 20 000 volumes, including rare manuscripts and documents...

 in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, the Carnegie Library

Carnegie Library

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 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.

Publications

• The Flora of South Africa- with Rudolf Marloth
  Rudolf Marloth
  Hermann Wilhelm Rudolf Marloth 28 December 1855 Lübben, Germany - 15 May 1931 Caledon, Cape Province was a German-born South African botanist, pharmacist and analytical chemist, best known for his Flora of South Africa which appeared in six superbly illustrated volumes between 1913 and 1932...
  
  6 vols. (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.