The Shillicaio stream
Date
1856
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 365mm
width (drawing): 236mm
width (drawing): 236mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An incomplete landscape sketch of vegetation and rocks surrounding a river.
Annotated bottom right ‘No. 34. (Andes of Peru) On the stream Shillicaio near Tarapoto. 1856. R.S. (unfinished)’.
Annotated bottom right ‘No. 34. (Andes of Peru) On the stream Shillicaio near Tarapoto. 1856. R.S. (unfinished)’.
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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