Early watercolors from Chile and Peru

Lot 303
26.05.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 303 | Early watercolors from Chile and Peru
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$ 6 000 – 9 000
Early watercolors from Chile and PeruCharles Chatworthy Wood Taylor, 1820WOOD TAYLOR, Charles Chatworthy (1792-1856). Series of nine watercolor drawings, and one pencil sketch, several signed ("Wood" or "C C Wood"), various places including Santiago and Pisco, 1820. Scenes from the Pacific coast of South America during the wars of independence. The Staffordshire-born Wood came to the Americas in 1817 where he worked as a portrait painter before accepting a position with the U.S. government as an artist on a scientific expedition aboard the U.S.S. Macedonia in 1819. Soon after his arrival in Valparaiso, Wood set to work, but was soon lured into the Chilean army as an engineer serving under San Martin participating in several military operations in that capacity. In 1834 he designed the Chilean coat of arms. Known locally as Carlos Wood, he spent the next 25 years in Chile where he became known as an important artist and teacher. These watercolors date from his first years in Chile and include a design for a military decoration, a landscape of Santiago, as well as everyday people including a bearded solider in profile, several Africans including two "Negroes form environs of Lima[?]" (which includes a rough sketch of one of the male figure on verso),as well as an African woman identified as "A Negress of Pisco … 1820". The verso bears an additional watercolor of a man, smoking wearing a blue poncho and spurs holding his hat identified as "A Man of …. Interior of Peru." Other subjects include a "Frier [sic] of Pisco" as well as a image of a woman seated atop a donkey smoking while wearing a broad brim hat.Nine watercolor drawings (and an additional working pencil sketch) on eight leaves of paper ranging in size from 132 x 102mm to 222 x 281mm. Each drawing hinged to a mat at top margin (one drawing bears mild foxing, another with some light dust soiling and marginal wear).
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