Charles Willson Peale - Margueritte Olive Simon Alexandre Ami Goujeou Bonplond i.e. Bonpland
Summary
Bust silhouette portrait shows a man, perhaps the son of Amie Jacques Alexandre Goujaud Bonpland (1773-1858), facing left. Bonpland, along with Alexandre von Humboldt, toured South America identifying and classifying plants, before returning to France in 1804.
Inscribed above image: Washington June. 12 - 1804. 40,000 plants of S.A. preserved.
(DLC/PP-44431).
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Date
01/01/1804
Source
Library of Congress
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