Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10952
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Portrait of Miguel de Santiago
Date
13 December 1861
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 193mm
width (drawing): 145mm
width (drawing): 145mm
Description
A greeting card from Juan Leon Mera printed with a silhouette portrait of a right facing profile of Miguel de Santiago (1630 – 1706), a famous Ecuadorian painter, born at Quito.
Mera writes in Spanish, sending his greetings to Spruce, 13 December 1861.
Mera writes in Spanish, sending his greetings to Spruce, 13 December 1861.
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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