[Building the London Embankment]
Watercolour over traces of pencil
(sorry it's not in colour but the subject is too interesting not to show)
1865
13 1/4 x 21.5"
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1819 - 1908.
A London artist. He accompanied the British Guiana boundary expedition of 1841–3 and some of the paintings have survived. He wrote a book Sketches of Amerindian Tribes 1841–43.
his middle name here spelt Angelo.
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