Roca de Guanari
Date
1854
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 174mm
width (drawing): 220mm
width (drawing): 220mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape sketch of a rock or Cocuí surrounded by vegetation.
Annotated bottom left ‘No. 23 Roca de Guanari, Casiquiari, Venezuela (as it appears from some distance lower down). 1854. R.S. At 2/3 scale 633h’.
Reproduced as Figure 33 in Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 edited by Alfred Russel Wallace (volume I, London, 1908).
Annotated bottom left ‘No. 23 Roca de Guanari, Casiquiari, Venezuela (as it appears from some distance lower down). 1854. R.S. At 2/3 scale 633h’.
Reproduced as Figure 33 in Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes: being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastasa; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific, during the years 1849-1864 edited by Alfred Russel Wallace (volume I, London, 1908).
Object history
Spruce spent 15 years exploring the Amazon from the Andes to its mouth, collecting plants on behalf of botanists including Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker FRS and George Bentham FRS. He was one of the first Europeans to visit many of the places from which he collected. Spruce was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
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