A Country Public House & Travellers.
E.E. Vidal, Esq. del.t. G. Maile & J. Bluck sculp.t.
London. Published Oct.r 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Repairs in inscription area and bottom margin.
A 'Pulperia', one five leagues south-west from Buenos Aires, which are described by Vidal as being 'most miserable, dirty hovels, where may be bought a little canna, or spirit distilled from sugarcane'. He writes that horses are so cheap, 'three dollars, the cost of two or three days keep in the city', that they are abused and then abandoned, accounting for the skeleton bottom right. 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: 45755] £120.00
London. Published Oct.r 1st 1820 at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand.
Aquatint, printed in colours & hand finished. 255 x 305mm (10 x 12"). Repairs in inscription area and bottom margin.
A 'Pulperia', one five leagues south-west from Buenos Aires, which are described by Vidal as being 'most miserable, dirty hovels, where may be bought a little canna, or spirit distilled from sugarcane'. He writes that horses are so cheap, 'three dollars, the cost of two or three days keep in the city', that they are abused and then abandoned, accounting for the skeleton bottom right. 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: 45755] £120.00