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Image number: RS.10950
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Portait of Spruce's attendant at Maypures
Date
1853-1854
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 150mm
width (drawing): 94mm
width (drawing): 94mm
Subject
Description
Portrait sketch of the right profile view of a man annotated at the bottom of the page ‘A Llanero, my servant in Venezuela. RS'.
Reproduced as Figure 45 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).
Reproduced as Figure 45 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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