Convoy of Wine Mules.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & T. Sutherland sculp.t.
London. Published Aug.t 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819. Mount burn around image.
Early wine related image showing a rider on horse leading a convoy of mules, each laden with two barrels of wine. Vidal saw these coming from Mendoza in Cuyo, describing the convoy as between two-and-three hundred mules, each with two ten-gallon casks, accompanied by only three or four riders. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.19. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45753] £190.00
London. Published Aug.t 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"), on Whatman Turkey Mill paper dated 1819. Mount burn around image.
Early wine related image showing a rider on horse leading a convoy of mules, each laden with two barrels of wine. Vidal saw these coming from Mendoza in Cuyo, describing the convoy as between two-and-three hundred mules, each with two ten-gallon casks, accompanied by only three or four riders. From Emeric Essex Vidal's ''Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video'', one of the earliest descriptions of Argentinian life. Born c. 1788, Vidal entered the Navy in 1808 and retired in 1862. He visited Buenos Aires and Montevideo twice at the end of 1816 (the year Argentina became independent), returning 1828-9. He was stationed on St Helena 1820-1, during Bonaparte's exile.
Abbey Travel: 698.19. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45753] £190.00