Links: Comisión Científica del Pacífico. CSIC. Rafael Castro Ordóñez fotógrafo y pintor
En las bases de datos disponibles en web del CSIC se encuentran numerosos fondos relacionados, que contienen, fotografías o que estas se encuentran disponibles de manera fácil.
Por ejemplo :
La Comisión Científica del Pacífico fue la principal empresa científica
ultramarina de la España isabelina. En la primavera de 1862 el
Ministerio de Fomento decidió agregar un equipo de naturalistas a una
escuadrilla naval que un gobierno dirigido por el general O'Donnell,
líder de la Unión Liberal, envió a tierras americanas en el marco de una
política panhispanista.
......Su misión era formar colecciones científicas que enriqueciesen los fondos de los museos españoles y contribuir a desarrollar el programa de aclimatación de animales y vegetales exóticos que fuesen útiles a la economía española, puesto en marcha a mediados de la década de 1850 por Mariano de la Paz Graells , uno de los organizadores de la expedición.
......Su misión era formar colecciones científicas que enriqueciesen los fondos de los museos españoles y contribuir a desarrollar el programa de aclimatación de animales y vegetales exóticos que fuesen útiles a la economía española, puesto en marcha a mediados de la década de 1850 por Mariano de la Paz Graells , uno de los organizadores de la expedición.
A lo largo de su periplo americano Castro no sólo hizo fotografías y
dibujos, sino que también redactó una serie de crónicas que se
publicaron en
El Museo Universal
, la principal revista ilustrada de temática miscelánea de la última
fase del reinado isabelino. Parte de las fotografías tomadas por Castro
aparecieron reproducidas en esa publicación en forma de grabados de
madera, disociadas muchas veces de los textos que remitía Castro a
Madrid. Esos grabados aparecieron bajo la firma de los principales
ilustradores de El Museo Universal como Tomás Carlos Capuz, F. Ruiz, Rico, Ortega, etc.
Fotografías de Castro lograron circular muy rápidamente por tierras
americanas. Así sucedió con algunas de las que hizo en sus excursiones
por California en octubre de 1863 que fueron incluidas como
reproducciones litográficas por Edward Vischer en sus libros Sequoia Gigantea, Calaveras Mammoth Tree Grove y Vischer’s Pictorial of California. Otras
fueron regaladas a sus anfitriones americanos. Así sucedió con el álbum
de 51 fotografías que los comisionados españoles regalaron al emperador
del Brasil D. Pedro II en una de las dos audiencias que tuvieron con él
en octubre y noviembre de 1862, y que mucho tiempo después —en 1999— ha
sido localizado en la Biblioteca Nacional de Río de Janeiro por el
periodista brasileño Airton Seligman.
En ( google translate)
n the databases available on web CSIC are many related funds, which contain photographs or these are available easily.
For example :
Pacific Scientific Commission. CSIC.
Pacific Scientific Commission was the main overseas scientific enterprise of the Elizabethan Spain. In the spring of 1862 the Ministry of Development decided to add a team of naturalists to a naval squadron that a government led by General O'Donnell, leader of the Liberal Union, sent to America in the framework of a hispanist policy.
...... Their mission was to form scientific collections enriqueciesen funds Spanish museums and help develop the program of acclimatization of exotic animals and plants that were useful to the Spanish economy, launched in the mid-decade 1850 by Mariano de la Paz Graells, one of the organizers of the expedition.
The expeditionary / Rafael Castro y Ordóñez
Throughout his American journey Castro not only made photographs and drawings, but also wrote a series of chronicles published in El Universal Museum, the premier magazine theme illustrated miscellany of the last phase of the Elizabethan reign. Some of the photographs taken by Castro appeared reproduced in this publication as woodcuts, often disassociated texts that referred Castro to Madrid. These prints appeared under the signature of the main illustrators of the Universal Museum as Thomas Carlos Capuz, F. Ruiz Rico, Ortega, etc.
Photographs of Castro managed to move very quickly on American soil. So it was with some that made their trips by California in October 1863 which were included as lithographic prints by Edward Vischer in his books Sequoia gigantea, Calaveras Mammoth Tree Grove and Vischer's Pictorial of California. Others were given to their American hosts. This happened with the album of 51 photographs that Spanish commissioners gave the Emperor D. Pedro II of Brazil in one of the two hearings that were with him in October and November 1862, and much later, in 1999 has been located at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian journalist Airton Seligman.
For example :
Pacific Scientific Commission. CSIC.
Pacific Scientific Commission was the main overseas scientific enterprise of the Elizabethan Spain. In the spring of 1862 the Ministry of Development decided to add a team of naturalists to a naval squadron that a government led by General O'Donnell, leader of the Liberal Union, sent to America in the framework of a hispanist policy.
...... Their mission was to form scientific collections enriqueciesen funds Spanish museums and help develop the program of acclimatization of exotic animals and plants that were useful to the Spanish economy, launched in the mid-decade 1850 by Mariano de la Paz Graells, one of the organizers of the expedition.
The expeditionary / Rafael Castro y Ordóñez
Throughout his American journey Castro not only made photographs and drawings, but also wrote a series of chronicles published in El Universal Museum, the premier magazine theme illustrated miscellany of the last phase of the Elizabethan reign. Some of the photographs taken by Castro appeared reproduced in this publication as woodcuts, often disassociated texts that referred Castro to Madrid. These prints appeared under the signature of the main illustrators of the Universal Museum as Thomas Carlos Capuz, F. Ruiz Rico, Ortega, etc.
Photographs of Castro managed to move very quickly on American soil. So it was with some that made their trips by California in October 1863 which were included as lithographic prints by Edward Vischer in his books Sequoia gigantea, Calaveras Mammoth Tree Grove and Vischer's Pictorial of California. Others were given to their American hosts. This happened with the album of 51 photographs that Spanish commissioners gave the Emperor D. Pedro II of Brazil in one of the two hearings that were with him in October and November 1862, and much later, in 1999 has been located at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian journalist Airton Seligman.