Views and Costumes of the City and Neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil....during the years 1819-20.

Description

While a lieutenant of the Royal Artillery, Captain Sir Henry Chamberlain visited his father in Brazil in 1819-20. While there, he painted a series of views and costumes of the city and neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies has an album of drawings by him, done during the years 1819 and 1820, with descriptive explanations. His watercolors formed the basis of a famous album of lithographs, each accompanied by a detailed explanation of the particular subject, entitled Views and Costumes of the City and Neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro.

He tried to illustrate the entire range of Rio de Janeiro society, including slaves working on the streets. This book is one of the most beautiful and also one of the rarest books published on Brazil in the 19th century (Borba de Moraes). This work contains landscapes, architectural and sociological scenes and harbor views. Originally issue in parts. 36 hand colored aquatint plates, including 5 folding panoramic views.

References:

Borba de Moraes p.178; Tooley 136; Abbey Travel 707; Bobins 8.

List of Images

1. Title Page

2. Approach to Rio de Janeiro, from the Westward toward Sugar Loaf, about Four Leagues Distant

3. Entrance to the Harbour of Rio de Janeiro . Sugar Loaf about Two miles Distant

4. View of the City of Rio de Janeiro taken from the Anchorage

5. Tejuca Mountains

6. A Market Stall

7. The Chege and Cadeira

8. A Brazilian Family

9. Pretos de Ganho

10. S.W. View of Fort Santa Cruz

11. The Ride or Net

12. Boa Viagem

13. The Slave Market

14. The Waterfall of Tijuca

15. The Lazaretto

16. Lagoa de Freitas

17. Braganca

18. Na. Sa. da Gloria

19. Point of the Calhabouco from the Gloria

20. View of the Western Side of the Harbour of Rio de Janeiro

21. The Store Cart

22. Convicts

23. S.W. View of the City of Rio de Janeiro

24. A Pleasure Cart

25. Eastern Side of the Harbour of Rio de Janeiro

26. Funeral of a Negro

27. Troperos or Muleteers

28. The Palace

29. Espirito Santo

30. View Near Botafogo Bay

31. Sick Slaves

32. View from the Landing Place at the Gloria

33. Huma Historia

34. Botafogo Bay Plate 1

35. Botafogo Bay Plate 2

36. A Pedlar and his Slave

37. Criminals Carrying Provisions to the Prison

38. Largo da Gloria

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