Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Setting out from Tarija.

Accession number: 
05917
Record number: 
05917-16
JCB call number: 
D830 T284t
Image title: 
Setting out from Tarija.
Creator 1: 
W. Hornsby
Creator 1 role: 
Drawn by
Creator 2: 
J. Clark
Creator 2 role: 
Engraved by
Place image published: 
London
Image publisher: 
Colburn & Bentley
Image date: 
1830
Image function: 
frontispiece; vol. 2
Technique: 
etching, aquatint
Image dimension height: 
11 cm.
Image dimension width: 
18.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
21 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
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.
Source creator: 
Temple, Edmond
Source Title: 
Travel in various parts of Peru, including a year's residence in Potosi, ... Vol II.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street
Source date: 
1830
notes: 
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.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1874.
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 Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Bolivia
Subject headings: 
Clothing and dress--Bolivia
Subject headings: 
Tarija (Bolivia)