print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1670
- Title
- Object: Travelling in Spanish America.
- Description
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Two European men travelling in a coach drawn by two horses on a road from right to left, with a South American man in a tall hat and poncho riding the horse closer to the viewer; a vulture standing on a stone wall in foreground at left and two others seen near bones on the road in middle ground at left; mountains in background; illustration to Maria Graham's 'Journal of a Residence in Chile...' (London: 1824); after Maria Graham. 5 April 1824
Etching and aquatint on chine collé
- Production date
- 1806-1842
- Dimensions
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Height: 225 millimetres
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Width: 275 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1845,0405.14.146 for Dennis Dighton's drawing and 1845,0405.14.1-261 for Maria Graham's original sketches of South America.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Journal of a Residence in Chile, during the year 1822. And a Voyage from Chile to Brazil in 1823.
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1670
