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MIDSHIPMAN GEORGE RODNEY MUNDY, RN, HMS BLANCHE, SOUTH AMERICAN STATION, 1824-1826

Sketches from Nature in Portugal and South America, 1824-1826: a sketchbook initialled and dated 'GRM/1824' on the upper cover, comprising a watercolour frontispiece depicting the flags of the new Latin American Republics (Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Buenos Aires)(1), and twenty-four pencil sketches of Portugal (2-5), Brazil (7-14 including Rio de Janeiro, Tijuca, Pernambuco, and Bahia), Cape Horn (15), Chile (16-20 including Coquimbo), Peru and Colombia (21-24 including 'Residence of Bolivar at Madalena') and HMSs Blanche, Cambridge, Wellesley, Eclair and Jackal, the album 5 3/8 x 10¾in. (13.5 x 27.3cm.)

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MIDSHIPMAN GEORGE RODNEY MUNDY, RN, HMS BLANCHE, SOUTH AMERICAN STATION, 1824-1826
Sketches from Nature in Portugal and South America, 1824-1826: a sketchbook initialled and dated 'GRM/1824' on the upper cover, comprising a watercolour frontispiece depicting the flags of the new Latin American Republics (Brazil, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Buenos Aires)(1), and twenty-four pencil sketches of Portugal (2-5), Brazil (7-14 including Rio de Janeiro, Tijuca, Pernambuco, and Bahia), Cape Horn (15), Chile (16-20 including Coquimbo), Peru and Colombia (21-24 including 'Residence of Bolivar at Madalena') and HMSs Blanche, Cambridge, Wellesley, Eclair and Jackal, the album 5 3/8 x 10¾in. (13.5 x 27.3cm.)

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George Rodney Mundy was born in 1805, the son of General Godfrey Mundy and Sarah Brydges Rodney, the youngest daughter of the distinguished Admiral, George Brydges Rodney, Ist Baron Rodney. After service as a volunteer and midshipman in North America and the Mediterranean during 1821-24 he embarked as a midshipman on the frigate Blanche as part of a British squadron enforcing British interests on the South American Station during the tumultuous years of revolution and independence in Latin America.

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