Piedra de Cocuí
Date
April 1853
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 250mm
width (drawing): 207mm
width (drawing): 207mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An outline pencil sketch of a rock, annotated in Spruce's hand ‘Piedra de Cocuí, as seen from above’. Piedra del Cocuy is a natural monument located nearby the triple border of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.
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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