Title:
[Interior and utensils of house in Brazil]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1003--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper mounted on paper: ink and wash
10.4 x 16.3 cm., on mount 12.5 x 18.6 cm.
Content/Description:
Room with two women operating at cotton gin; other objects in room include fan, jars, containers, bow and fishing net.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in pencil): Wohnung u[nd] Hausgeräthschaft? von Brasilien; (LR, in ink): Dr. Langsdorff f[ecit];
(UR, in ink): 7; (LL, in pencil): 20. Handwritten (on verso): Langsfdorff... Ref. note: Langsdorff: German ed., Vol. I, Plate
3; text 1, p. 56; English edition: Vol. I, Plate 3; text, p. 63. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Brazil;
Discovery & exploration;
Equipment;
Expeditions & surveys;
Interiors;
Manners & customs;
South America;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Women
Genre/Format:
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings