Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10955
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Bamboo sketch
Date
19th century
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 250mm
width (drawing): 203mm
width (drawing): 203mm
Subject
Content object
Description
An incomplete pencil sketch of a bamboo plant, annotated in Spruce's hand 'Bamboo'.
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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