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Date

[April - May 1848]

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Description

At the foot of the cliffs of San Vincente are "great black lava rocks long since fallen down from the mountains".
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 4 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

Sao Vicente, Madeira, Portugal

Country

Portugal