Iquique, South Peru. From whence Nitrate of Soda from the Province of Tarapaca is shipped to Europe
According to Dr Manuel Fernandez Canque, this print can be dated around 1860. It bears a dedication from George Smith to His Excellency the President of Peru Don Jose Rufino Echenique. President Echenique held office between 1851 and 1855. George Smith was a British engineer to whom the Peruvian government entrusted the task of surveying the Tarapaca province in the 1830s –then in Southern Peru now in Northern Chile - with the view of developing nitrate exports. This task was performed together with William Bollaert, a distinguished British scientist and explorer who published an important account of all those explorations in Tarapaca: William Bollaert, 'Antiquarian, Ethnological and Other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile' (London, Trübner & Co., 1860) in which this print is reproduced on page 163.
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Object Details
ID: | PAH3045 |
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Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | MacDonald; Macgregor Maclure, A. |
Places: | Unlinked place |
Date made: | circa 1860 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 259 x 451 mm; Mount: 456 mm x 580 mm |