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Last Name Cervantes
Given Name Vicente
alt. Names V. C. ;
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Year born 1755 in Ledrada, Province of Salamanca, Spain
Year died 1829
Place of death Mexico City
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Country of Activity Mexico
Worked for Alexander von Humboldt: Vues des Cordillières et monumens des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique (Paris 1810) ; Exercicios publicos de botańica (1793) ;
Patronage Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751-1808) & Casimiro Gómez Ortega (1741-1818), director of the botanic garden (Real Jardín Botánico) ;
Collaborators naturalist and draughtsman ->Alexander von Humboldt ;
Techniques botanical and ethnological drawing
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Archival sources www.uni-potsdam.de/romanistik/hin/hin20/leitner.htm ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Cervantes
Published sources Lubrich 2014: 66 & 753 ;
other V. C. took part in the Real Expedición Botánica a la Nueva España (Royal botanic expedition to New Spain (Mexico)) & stayed in Mexico City, where he directed the botanic garden & Hospital General de San Andrés.
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