L3.202 Bleek, D.F. [1940s]

L3.202 Bleek, D.F. [1940s]

Photographs and Portraits

1940s

Studio portrait. Black & white. Head and shoulders, Bleek facing to the right of the photograph. 6¼ x 4¾ inches.

A much older portrait of Bleek that looks as though it was taken within a year or two of her death in 1948. The angle from which it has been taken is virtually identical to that of the Navana portrait #176 above. The "original" that is in the family archive has been clipped from a magazine. The back of the magazine photograph has printed on it what appears to be the copy of a page from Bleek's original Bushman Dictionary manuscript. The text shown is from p. 294 of the published 1956 dictionary but the magazine entry lines are only 4½" in width. Those in the 1956 work are 7" wide. Below the dictionary extract is some text in Afrikaans. After Dorothea's death Scott had the magazine photograph copied by Wynberg photographer Charles Field. The matt black and white reproduction is 4¾ x 3½" printed on a deckle edged card 6 x 4¼".