COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
69-206
Record number:
69-206-6
JCB call number:
D824 S354t / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Desaguadero.
Creator 1:
Agostino Aglio
Creator 1 dates:
1777-1857
Creator 1 role:
Drawn on Stone by ... from a sketch.
Creator 2:
C. Motte & Co.
Creator 2 role:
Printed by
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green]
Image date:
[1824]
Image function:
plate 6; following p. 164
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
14.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
24.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
26.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Men stand between buildings; one cuts meat from the wooden spit on which it was cooked while the others eat. Includes ponchos, a small two-wheeled covered cart, and a large two-wheeled covered cart. Men on horseback in the background chase or drive a small herd of horses.
Source creator:
Schmidtmeyer, Peter
Source Title:
Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the years 1820 and 1821, with some sketches of the productions and agriculture; mines and metallurgy; inhabitants, history, and other features, of America; particularly of Chile, and Arauco.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by S. McDowall, 95, Leadenhall Street, for the author; and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, Paternoster Row.
Source date:
1824
notes:
Desaguadero was a post stop where horses were rounded up for the next stage.Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Chile--Description and travel
Subject headings:
Post roads--Chile
Subject headings:
Carriages and carts--Chile
Desaguadero.
