Photo, Print, Drawing Inhabitants of the Plains of Mariquita, with a View of the Nevado del Tolima, Nevado del Ruiz, and the Mesa de Herveo, Province of Mariquita. Provincia de Mariquita. Habitantes de los llanos de Mariquita, con la vista de los nevados del Tolima, Ruiz i mesa de Herveo
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Title
- Inhabitants of the Plains of Mariquita, with a View of the Nevado del Tolima, Nevado del Ruiz, and the Mesa de Herveo, Province of Mariquita.
Other Title
- Provincia de Mariquita. Habitantes de los llanos de Mariquita, con la vista de los nevados del Tolima, Ruiz i mesa de Herveo
Summary
- This watercolor by Henry Price (1819--63) shows campesinos with their horses, in the foreground, at a small village in the Andean highlands Province of Mariquita (present-day Tolima Department, Colombia), about 130 kilometers northwest of Bogotá. In the distance at left is the Nevado del Tolima, an active volcano. To the right is another volcano, the Mesa de Herveo (also called Nevado del Ruiz). Price was a British painter and musician who was one of the draftsmen of the Comisión Corográfica (Chorographic Commission), a body tasked with studying the geography, natural resources, natural history, regional culture, and agriculture of the Republic of New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama). He was born in London but moved to New York with his family as an adolescent. In 1843 he married Eliza Castello Brandon, daughter of David Castello Montefiori (1790--1882). Price and Castello probably met in New York, where Castello, also originally from London, had transferred his commercial activities from Kingston, Jamaica. Henry and Eliza Price settled in Bogotá, where he initially worked as a bookkeeper for Castello. With the foundation of the Sociedad Filarmónica, an influential institution in Bogotá society, he was able to make important social connections that led to a teaching post at the Colegio del Espíritu Santo. It was there that he met some future members of the Comisión Corográfica, including Venezuelan painter Carmelo Fernández (1809--87), botanist José Jerónimo Triana (1828--90), and the lawyer and statesman Santiago Pérez Manosalbas (1830--1900). Price was hired for the third expedition, in 1852, to the provinces of Mariquita, Medellín, Córdova, Antioquia, and Cauca, under the direction of Agustín Codazzi (1793--1859). Many of Price's watercolors and drawings from 1852--55 depict Colombia's landscapes, the people and their customs, and artifacts. These works are now held at the National Library of Colombia (Colección Comisión Corográfica).
Names
- Colombia. Comisión Corográfica Sponsor.
- Price, Henry, 1819-1863 Artist.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1852.
Headings
- - Colombia--Tolima
- - 1852
- - Clothing and dress
- - Expeditions and surveys
- - Horseback riding
- - Horses
- - Mountains
- - Regional Memory of the World Register, Scientific Memory of Andean America
- - Ruiz, Nevado del (Colombia)
- - Tolima, Nevado del (Colombia)
- - Volcanoes
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: 1 painting : watercolor ; 31 x 24 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: National Library of Colombia.
- - Content in Spanish.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Colección Comisión Corográfica
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670140
Online Format
- compressed data
- image