The sketchbooks of the explorers
Title:
The sketchbooks of the explorers
Producer:
Charles Callewaert (°1855 - †1945)
Theme:
fauna, travel, exploration and research
Legend:
The main reason that Callewaert wanted to draw was idleness. Once their everyday work had finished, the agents of the CEHC and the AIC had little in the way of entertainment. Some started collections of insects and birds, others liked to read if they had any books and newspapers and some abandoned themselves to the pleasures of alcohol. Others, like Callewaert, spent their free time on drawing. Callewaert visualised his pictorial experiences with colleagues like Valcke whom he pleaded in 1881 to send him a box of paints to make him "a beautiful drawing, in colour if possible, of Stanley Pool" (Callewaert to Valcke, Vivi Station, Congo river, Tuesday, 26 July 1881, Callewaert archives, folder No. 29).
Date of acquisition:
1989
Dimensions:
19 cm x 29 cm
Technique:
graphic arts > mixed technique > pencil - aquarelle
Inventory number:
HO.0.1.3101