Dale Watercolor of Sugar Load Mountain Rio De Janeiro
DALE, John B. (ca. 1800-1848).
Sugar Loaf Mountain [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
Watercolor and pencil on paper. circa 1844-1846.
5 1/4" x 7" sheet, 14 1/2" x 15 1/2" framed.
An important watercolor of Brazil from the Wilkes Expedition. As one of three artists assigned to the U.S.S. Constitution, Lt. John B. Dale labored over accurate renderings of landscapes and peoples in cultural dress of the various stops along Wilkes' route. Dale explores the cultural identity of the native peoples, paying special attention to their styles of dress and the conditions in which they live. The Wilkes Expedition was the last most comprehensive sailing journey ever attempted by the United States. Leaving Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, the U.S.S. Constitution stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales; from Sydney sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands"; visited Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, explored the west coast of the United States, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, the Columbia River, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River, in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.
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DALE, John B. (ca. 1800-1848).
Sugar Loaf Mountain [Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
Watercolor and pencil on paper. circa 1844-1846.
5 1/4" x 7" sheet, 14 1/2" x 15 1/2" framed.
An important watercolor of Brazil from the Wilkes Expedition. As one of three artists assigned to the U.S.S. Constitution, Lt. John B. Dale labored over accurate renderings of landscapes and peoples in cultural dress of the various stops along Wilkes' route. Dale explores the cultural identity of the native peoples, paying special attention to their styles of dress and the conditions in which they live. The Wilkes Expedition was the last most comprehensive sailing journey ever attempted by the United States. Leaving Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, the U.S.S. Constitution stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales; from Sydney sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery "of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands"; visited Fiji and the Hawaiian Islands in 1840, explored the west coast of the United States, including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound, the Columbia River, San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River, in 1841, and returned by way of the Philippines, the Sulu Archipelago, Borneo, Singapore, Polynesia and the Cape of Good Hope, reaching New York on June 10, 1842.
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