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Date

[January 1849]

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Description

"Leaving Santa Rosa, we crossed some high ridges, which separate the valley of Aconcagua from the plain of Chacabuco. This was famous as the scene of one of the chief battles between the Chileans and the Spaniards in the war of independence".
This is a page from a unique leather-bound volume of Robert Elwes’ travelogue 'A Sketcher's Tour Round the World', first published 1854, (see page 152 for corresponding passage).
The book contains the printed text of the manuscript but remarkably, the monochrome wash illustrations are hand painted by Elwes. The book bears a handwritten inscription ‘Mary F Elwes from her affect. husband Robert Elwes Jan 25 1878’, dated after Robert Elwes became ill at Congham, his Norfolk home. On 28th January 1878 , their youngest daughter Violet noted in her diary: “Papa much worse”. Less than three months later, Robert Elwes died on 17th April aged 58.

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Image Credit

Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Aconcagua, Argentina

Country

Argentina