Tag: cavite
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Mikhail Tikhonovich Tikhanov: a Russian artist in Manila (1819)
During the Manila stop of Captain V.M. Golovnin’s 1817–1819 circumnavigation aboard the sloop Kamchatka, the expedition artist Mikhail T. Tikhanov produced a series of drawings from direct observation, of which only three Manila scenes are known to survive. An Indian in Manila Took Tikhanov’s Hat and Ran Away, Malays Arey and Thomas from the Island…
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Setting the record straight: Joaquín Pardo de Tavera y Gómez (9 November 1829, San Roque, Cavite – 19 March 1885, Paris)
Online sources are unreliable for the visual identification and basic biography of Joaquín Pardo de Tavera y Gómez. Google results and highly visited websites often confuse him with other members of the Pardo de Tavera family. I asked fellow historians but none could offer a definite visual identification of the important historical figure. So I…
Geronimo Cristobal 