Accession number:
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05917
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Record number:
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05917-16
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JCB call number:
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D830 T284t
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Image title:
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Setting out from Tarija.
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Creator 1:
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W. Hornsby
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Creator 1 role:
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Drawn by
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Creator 2:
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J. Clark
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Creator 2 role:
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Engraved by
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Place image published:
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London
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Image publisher:
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Colburn & Bentley
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Image date:
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1830
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Image function:
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frontispiece; vol. 2
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Technique:
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etching, aquatint
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Image dimension height:
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11 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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18.9 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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21 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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13 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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A group of ladies and gentlemen and their native American servants (?) mount their horses and ride away from a town. Includes hats, dogs, and dead birds. One of the men is in military uniform.
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Source creator:
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Temple, Edmond
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Source Title:
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Travel in various parts of Peru, including a year's residence in Potosi, ... Vol II.
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street
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Source date:
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1830
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notes:
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Tarija is a town and a department in present-day southern Bolivia. Text describes it as very pleasant and fertile. The author and his friends discovered a mastodon skeleton there.Temple made his trip as secretary of the Potosi Mining Association and left London in 1825. He sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then made his way to Potosí by land.Image placed horizontally on page.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1874.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of South America--Bolivia
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Subject headings:
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Clothing and dress--Bolivia
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Subject headings:
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Tarija (Bolivia)
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