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Camp fire sheltering by a square rock, Andes, Argentina

Courtesy of a private collector | All Rights Reserved

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Date

[January 1849]

Artist

Robert Elwes (1819-1878)

Collection

Private Collection

Acknowledgements

Digitised by TWW

Description

This is one of a group of watercolours and drawings produced by Robert Elwes recording scenes witnessed on his world tour (1848-1850). These form the basis of printed illustrations for his travelogue 'A Sketcher's Tour Round the World', published 1854. "We encamped for the night taking up our quarters behind a huge stone which had rolled down from the mountains. Beneath this boulder I spread my ponchos and slept soundly being heartily tired, as the slow pace of the mules was more fatiguing than the galloping on the plains". (Extract from Robert Elwes’ travelogue 'A Sketcher's Tour Round the World', p145).

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All Rights Reserved

Image Credit

Courtesy of a private collector

Location

Punta de Vacas, Mendoza, Argentina

Country

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Mountains

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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