Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Campos sur les bords du Rio das Velhas [print] : dans la province de Minas Geraës / Bonington del ; fig par V. Adam ; dess. d'ap. nat. par Rugendas.

Accession number
PML 140269.36
Creator
Bonington, Richard Parkes, 1801-1828, lithographer.
Published
Paris : Lith. de Engelmann Rue Louis-le-Grand, no. 27, [1827]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Date of publication from Curtis.
One of 3 lithographs by created by Bonington after drawings by Maurice Rugendas for the latter's Voyage pittoresque dans le Brasil, with contributions by artist Victor Adam.
Above image at upper left: 1 re. Div.; at upper right: Pl. 5; initialed within the image at lower left: R.P.B..
Library's copy mounted on folio 36 of a bound volume of prints by and after Bonington (see Bonington album PML 140269).
Description
1 print : lithograph ; image: 243 x 341 mm; sheet: 280 x 365 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A view of the countryside along the banks of the Velhas River in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, showing a landscape with palms and two horsemen pursuing cattle, with one of them felling a steer with a lasso in the foreground.
Classification
Department