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Image number: RS.10946
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Lamas village
Date
November 1855
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 235mm
width (drawing): 366mm
width (drawing): 366mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Landscape sketch of a village depicting several buildings including a church with a double tower and a detached bell-tower backed by forest clad mountains.
Annotated ‘No. 32. View in Lamas, Peru. R.S. Nov. 1855. (The mts of Tarapoto in the distance, looking Eastward.)’
Reproduced as Figure 3 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).
In the aforementioned work Wallace notes Spruce visited Lamas, a town of 6000 inhabitants, for two days and was reminded of the towns and villages of Valencia, occupying as it does a series of terraces.
Annotated ‘No. 32. View in Lamas, Peru. R.S. Nov. 1855. (The mts of Tarapoto in the distance, looking Eastward.)’
Reproduced as Figure 3 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).
In the aforementioned work Wallace notes Spruce visited Lamas, a town of 6000 inhabitants, for two days and was reminded of the towns and villages of Valencia, occupying as it does a series of terraces.
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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