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Watering Place Juan Feniandez.
Watering Place Juan Feniandez.
Drawn by Maria Graham. Engraved by Edwd. Finden.
[1824.]
Aquatint, sheet 170 x 205mm. 6¾ x 8". Trimmed within plate. Slightly soiled.
A view in Chile. From a drawing by Maria, Lady Callcott (1785 - 1842), who sailed for South America in the ship Doris in 1821 in the company of her first husband Captain Graham. Graham died off Cape Horn in April 1822, and his widow proceeded to Valparaiso, where she remained as instructress to Donna Maria from 22 November 1822 to January 1823. Soon afterwards she came back to England, engaged in literary work, and on 20 February 1827 married Augustus Wall Callcott, the artist. Plate XIII to 'Journal of a residence in Chile, during the year 1822; and a voyage from Chile to Brazil, in 1823.' London, 1824.
Abbey Travel: 714, 13. British Library: 001483390.
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Ibrahim a Malay Moonshee
Ibrahim a Malay Moonshee From a Native Drawing.
E. Mitchell sculpt.
[Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1812.]
Hand-coloured stipple, frontispiece to a first edition of Maria Graham's 'Journal of A Residence in India'. Paper watermarked 1809. 225 x 145mm, 9 x 5¾". Some offsetting from titlepage.
A Muslim teacher. Traveller and writer Lady Maria Callcott (1785 - 1842) wrote books on South America, India and Spain as Maria Graham. She married A.V. Callcott, the artist, in 1827, and left for a long tour of Italy in 1828.
Not in Abbey Travel.
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