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Mouna Haleakala Crater

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Date

[June - July 1849]

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Description

"As we approached the summit, we heard the wind roaring in the crater and ascending a few yards farther, found ourselves standing on the edge. I never shall forget the view which then presented itself. The crater was like a huge oblong valley, surrounded with rugged mountains. It was upwards of thirty miles in circumference and its floor was 2000 feet deep from the ridge on which we stood. Scattered about on this black floor were twelve or thirteen cones of a red or yellow ochre colour, with deep funnel-shaped craters in their summits…".
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 214 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

Haleakalā, Hawaii, USA

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