'Mexicans, Plaza at Tepic [Mexico], Augt 19th - 13th 1850'

No. 40 in Fanshawe's Pacific album, 1849 - 52. Captioned by the artist on the album page below the image, as title. A well-observed study of the local costume at Tepic, Mexico, where Fanshawe appears to have spent the dates given for it arranging for a freight of silver to be carried to Panama on his ship 'Daphne' from San Blas, the port for Tepic: for his drawing of the town see PAI4651.

Object Details

ID: PAI4647
Type: Drawing
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fanshawe, Edward Gennys
Places: Tepic
Date made: 13 Aug 1850; 9-13 August 1850
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 175 x 258 mm
Parts: Album of watercolours of Madeira, Brazil, the Falkland and Pacific Islands, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Vancouver, and California (Album)