Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10949
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View from Tabalosos
Date
July 1856
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 237mm
width (drawing): 365mm
width (drawing): 365mm
Subject
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Description
Landscape illustration annotated bottom left ‘No. 35. View from Tavalosos [Tabalosos], in the Peruvian Andes, looking across the River Mayo. July, 1856. R.S.’
A crude clock tower is depicted with a figure ringing the bells and the Campana Mountains in the distance.
Reproduced as Figure 5 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).
A crude clock tower is depicted with a figure ringing the bells and the Campana Mountains in the distance.
Reproduced as Figure 5 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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