Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Author in the Travelling Costume of the Country.

Accession number: 
05838
Record number: 
05838-1
JCB call number: 
D825 C663
Image title: 
The Author in the Travelling Costume of the Country.
Creator 1: 
R. Cooper
Creator 1 role: 
fecit
Place image published: 
London
Image publisher: 
Henry Colburn
Image date: 
1825
Image function: 
frontispiece; vol. 1
Technique: 
etching, engraving, hand coloring
Image dimension height: 
15.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
22 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.8 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink, colors
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Portrait of Captain Charles Stuart Cochrane in British military attire and a striped poncho leaning against a donkey. Includes sword and straw hat.
Source creator: 
Cochrane, Charles Stuart
Source Title: 
Journal of a residence and travels in Colombia during the years 1823 and 1824, ... Vol. 1.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street.
Source date: 
1825
notes: 
Cochrane (b. 1796) served in the Napoleonic wars. After leaving the Navy he went to Colombia in hopes of mining copper and lowering the number of deaths in the pearl fisheries. He was perhaps the first to describe native Americans' use of the secretions from frog skin as a poison. When mining proved impracticable, he returned to Britain where he claimed to be a wandering Spanish minstrel, calling himself Jean de Vega. In 1830 he took out a patent in France on a machine for spinning cashmere and built a mill in Glasgow for spinning that wool which was new to Europe.These volumes are preceded by a dedication to Simón Bolívar.Artist may be Richard Cooper II, 1740-after 1814.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Cochrane, Charles Stuart