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Image number: RS.10945
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Yurimaguas village
Date
19 May 1855
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 239mm
width (drawing): 366mm
width (drawing): 366mm
Subject
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Description
Sketch of a village depicting several buildings including a church, belfry tower, and in the foreground the figures of two men and a woman.
Annotated as ‘No. 31 Yurimaguas, on left bank of Huallaga. May 19. 1855. R.S. The figures painted on the church wall, on each side of the entrance are those of St. Peter and St. Paul; the colours used are earths found on the banks of the rivers’.
Reproduced as Figure 1 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 II, London, 1908).
Annotated as ‘No. 31 Yurimaguas, on left bank of Huallaga. May 19. 1855. R.S. The figures painted on the church wall, on each side of the entrance are those of St. Peter and St. Paul; the colours used are earths found on the banks of the rivers’.
Reproduced as Figure 1 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 II, 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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