Travelling Wagon in a Pontano (Morass).
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published June 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Small hole in inscription area, repairs to bottom margin. Small margins.
Two high-wheeled carts drawn by six oxen wading through a bog. Vidal describes these large wheels as necessary because 'no gravel or stone of any kind, not even a pebble, is to be found on the west bank of the river' for 100 miles from Buenos Ayres, making building good roads impossible. Evidence of an unsuccessful crossing is in the foreground. 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. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45754] £120.00
London. Published June 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Small hole in inscription area, repairs to bottom margin. Small margins.
Two high-wheeled carts drawn by six oxen wading through a bog. Vidal describes these large wheels as necessary because 'no gravel or stone of any kind, not even a pebble, is to be found on the west bank of the river' for 100 miles from Buenos Ayres, making building good roads impossible. Evidence of an unsuccessful crossing is in the foreground. 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. Vidal's text is available on Google Books.
[Ref: 45754] £120.00