Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10957
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Portait of Anna
Date
ca. 1851
Creator
Richard Spruce (1817 - 1893, British) , Explorer
Object type
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Material
Dimensions
height (drawing): 221mm
width (drawing): 134mm
width (drawing): 134mm
Description
Front facing pencil portrait of a Mamaluka girl wearing earrings and several beaded necklaces.
Annotated top left 'Mamaluka child. At Lages, mouth of Rio Negro'.
Annotated centre bottom 'Anna (cousin of Maria & Rufina), 8 years'.
Annotated top left 'Mamaluka child. At Lages, mouth of Rio Negro'.
Annotated centre bottom 'Anna (cousin of Maria & Rufina), 8 years'.
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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